London Books

À Tables London, The Restaurants You Need to Know

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This bilingual French-English book rounds up the 50 essential restaurants shaping the taste of London A dusted-off touristic guide featuring insider tips to (re)discover one of the most creative food scenes in the world. It’s designed for everyone who wants to explore London like real locals, with everything to plan an eating road map, without getting lost in tourist traps Restaurants reviewed independently

Brutal London

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In response to a growing interest in London's less glamorous Brutalist architectural history, Simon Phipps's Brutal London offers a photographic exploration of the city's postwar modernist architecture The book inspires the viewer to revisit and reimagine London's cityscape, revealing familiar and unfamiliar buildings in a fresh and evocative way The photographer divides the city into geographical sections, allowing the viewer to dip in and out of the book at their leisure Simon Phipps is a fine art photographer based in London, and has spent over 15 years documenting and photographing Brutalist architecture across the UK

Launderama

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A colourful portrait of London's much-loved but fading launderettes Photographer Joshua Blackburn has made it his mission to photograph every laundromat in London (for a total of more than 400). As high streets grow ever more homogenous, these are one of the few businesses that retain their striking individuality. But they're an endangered species as many close every year across the UK The colours, signs, machines, surfaces and geometry of these spaces are irresistible and this new book features more than 100 images that capture the colourful design and community spirit of the humble launderette

New Architecture London

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London has always been known for its iconic buildings, but the city has recently witnessed an explosion of new architecture from the world's most acclaimed architects This breathtaking volume offers a fascinating look at the city's rapidly changing skyline and celebrates the enormous array of motifs, materials, and cutting-edge technology that have been employed by today's leading architects. The book includes the recently completed Tate Modern extension by Herzog and de Meuron, important financial district buildings such as Rafael Vin oly's "Walkie-Talkie" and Foster + Partner's "The Gherkin," as well as Renzo Piano's mixed-use skyscraper, "The Shard," across the Thames. OMA's New Court Rothschild Bank nimbly juxtaposes contemporary features with more traditional ones. Jean Nouvel's colossal retail and office development, One New Change, cleverly plays off its storied environs with an ingeniously constructed glass block that allows for multiple views of St. Paul's Cathedral From the Serpentine Sackler Gallery to the Emirates Airline tram, and from the Peckham Library to the US Embassy, no new stone is left unturned. This book demonstrates how one of the world's oldest cities manages to feel eternally new and exciting

This is London

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Painter and illustrator M. Sasek shares his impressions of London with its beautiful buildings, historic monuments, bridges, parks, shops, Piccadilly Circus, black cabs, Horse Guards, and famed Underground First published in 1959 and now updated for the 21st century Sasek concentrates on the things he likes best: people, costume, transport and local details that somehow come together to form a whole impression of the city that still seems quite accurate today