TASCHEN – the leading art-book publisher celebrated for its bold, visually striking coffee table books has announced its next biannual sale, running from this Thursday, February 5th, through Sunday, February 8th.
During the sale, you can explore extraordinary deals of up to 75% off at taschen.com and in TASCHEN flagship stores worldwide. The biannual TASCHEN Sale features celebrated books across a wide array of categories, with up to 75% off, including art, fashion, photography, design, architecture, travel, and more.
To help you navigate the many books on sale, FAD has picked 5 we really want.
The National Gallery. Paintings, People, Portraits
A fresh way into the National Gallery’s collection, seen through the perspectives of leading cultural figures and contemporary artists, photographed throughout the Gallery and its behind-the-scenes spaces. Moving chronologically, the book traces 700 years of art history via more than 200 key works, from Margarito d’Arezzo to Claude Monet — pairing canonical paintings with lived, contemporary encounters.
Hardcover, 29 x 39.5 cm, 7.06 kg, 582 pages £125 BUY HERE
Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture
This collection takes a microscope to the fundamentals of architecture, revealing the core design strategies shared by builders across cultures and centuries. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design, it unfolds as a primordial toolkit—showing how the elements we take for granted are anything but fixed, and instead remain in a state of continual evolution.
Hardcover, 20 x 25.5 cm, 3.55 kg, 2528 pages £125 BUY HERE
David Bailey. Eighties XL
Padded shoulders, big hair, and bold colors: Go back in time to the decade of decadence with Great Britain’s most renowned fashion and portrait photographer, David Bailey. Featuring dozens of assignments from the pages of Vogue and Tatler and icons such as Jerry Hall, Tina Turner, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Hardcover, 28.4 x 36 cm, 3.55 kg, 296 pages £100 BUY HERE
Calatrava. Complete Works 1979–Today
Spanning landmark projects from the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan to the UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, this volume offers a deep dive into Santiago Calatrava’s unmistakable visual language. Through essays, photographs and the architect’s signature watercolour sketches, it traces the evolution of a practice where engineering precision meets sculptural fluidity. Early collaborations sit alongside recent works, revealing Calatrava as a singular creative force operating across architecture, art and design.
Hardcover, printed on two different paper stocks, 30.8 × 39 cm, 7.40 kg, 688 pages £200 BUY HERE
George Herriman. Krazy Kat. The Complete Color Sundays 1935–1944
A complete facsimile of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat Sunday pages in color 1935–44. One of the first comics to be considered a work of art, Krazy Kat delights readers with its characterization, visual-verbal creativity, and the slapstick shenanigans between Krazy and Ignatz Mouse. This book comes with an illustrated introduction by Alexander Braun.
Hardcover, 26.5 x 36.6 cm, 3.54 kg, 632 pages £80 BUY HERE
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TASCHEN collaborates with acclaimed creative minds to produce thousands of books in multiple languages. From the iconic Basic Art series to the monumental SUMO-sized Collector’s Editions, TASCHEN is committed to both diversity and innovation. No matter the subject or price – whether £10 or £10,000 – TASCHEN approaches each book with the utmost respect, ensuring that every volume is beautifully and uniquely designed. @taschen
