It feels like far too long since we’ve feature a new publication here on Proper, so what better time to kick things back off with a really beauty…
It’s that marvellous time of year when we stop yapping about cool trainers and massive coats for a bit and tell you about some suitable reading material to…
When Ferris Bueller said ‘Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it.’ he could also have been referring…
Remember when you were a kid and you’d promise yourself that when you were a grown up you wouldn’t live like your stick in the mud parents. No…
Does cookery bore you these days? Do you feel like you’ve seen it all from molecular gastronomy to cooking with hay? Well here’s a cook book with a…
If you’re in need of an artistic, emotional and multi-sensory blow out then forget all about mind-altering drugs or new age religions and instead watch a Disney film…
In today’s world where short attention spans rule, the format used in Yang Lius’ third thought-provoking little book for Taschen is clearly the future. Yang’s graphic skills are…
Here’s a recipe for a great book: Take 40 of Europe’s greatest chefs, add around 60 Michelin stars, 80 of their favourite recipes and a sneaky peak into each…
Pre-empting instagram by at least fifty years master of modernism Andy Warhol choose to keep track of all the cool stuff he did by using a polaroid camera. He…
John Lennon once sang “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you aint gonna make it with anyone anyhow.” but clearly the mad Scouse bugger hadn’t…
If you think Berlin is cool now then boy oh boy you should have been there between 1919 and 1933. The embarrassment of hedonistic riches that were the Weimar…
These days everyone seems to go on about Bauhaus being a design influence on everything from Jumpers to goalposts but do any of us really know that much about…
Only a company from Italy could take the humble garage pin-up calendar and turn it into a highly sought after art-form. I’m talking of course about Pirelli who…
I love not only how Taschen make phenomenal books about art, fashion, photography and film that we the people genuinely want to read, but also how after releasing dead…
Whether making a huge political statement or just trying to brighten up an otherwise dull lump of concrete, nothing quite beats a well placed bit of graffiti does…