9/29/2006
It's been a busy summer around the Monacelli Press -- we've been trying to make the news rather than write the news. Most exciting is that, for the first time, we've been a matchmaker: photographer Jake Rajs (author of The Hudson River: From Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan, newly available as a mini edition) met his wife, Amy, while scouring the length of the North Fork of Long Island for his forthcoming book. Many many happy returns!

For the first time, we invited the public (well, our authors, their friends, our friends, our families, and our neighbors in the building) to a late-summer book sale. Plied with wine and Whole Foods macaroons, shoppers spent more than three hours perusing the shelves. We'll announce another sale in time for the holidays.

Vicente Wolf, author of Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design, designed the public spaces of the Bryant Park Tents for Fashion Week in New York. On September 14, he launched the book there with international hors d'oeuvres and five Wolf-concocted tropical drinks honoring Borneo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Myanmar, and Syria.

Finally, our biggest book ever hits stores November 2. Bring a hand truck.


5/8/2006
Congratulations are in order -- once again! -- to even more members of the Monacelli Press family. Tonight, at a garden party (the weather looks promising, though a few extra degrees of warmth wouldn't hurt), the Cooper-Hewitt will annouce the finalists for the 2006 National Design Awards. The three architecture finalists are all Monacelli authors, sometimes of multiple titles: Stanley Saitowitz, Bernard Tschumi, and Thom Mayne. One of the finalists in graphic design is 2x4, designers of Loft, Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect, and Between Two Towers: The Drawings of the School of Miami, along with numerous covers.

Artist Betty Woodman has been the subject of a media blitz for her shows at the Metropolitan Museum and Max Protetch and (we say modestly) her new book. She was profiled in the New York Times on April 23 (you'll need to be a Times Select member to access that link); the Met show was reviewed on April 28; and she is interviewed at length in ArtInfo.

4/19/2006
The weather gets better and so do our events. Two exhibits on acclaimed ceramist Betty Woodman are opening in the next week. This Sunday, March 23, "New Works" opens at the gallery of Max Protetch, Woodman's longtime dealer; stop by for tea between 4:00 and 6:00. And on Monday, "The Art of Betty Woodman" opens at the Metropolitan Museum. Our new monograph on Betty's work is already in stores, and a limited edition, including a six-color lithograph/woodcut, is available here.

Then on June 8, we're headed west for a blowout book-signing/cocktail party with authors Diane Kanner, John Chase (book forthcoming this month), Sylvia Lavin, Mark Robbins, Stanley Saitowitz, and Julie Eizenberg (book forthcoming in June). Sponsors include Luksusova, Ultimate, and Bison Vodkas -- be careful out there, folks.

4/6/2006
The fall 2006 catalog is here! To see our list of forthcoming titles (including our biggest book ever -- and that's really saying something), please click here.

2/28/2006
Well, after famine (of updated news at least) comes feast. Not one, not two, but three of our graphic designers have received AIGA Medals for 2006. Sparklers and champagne for Michael Bierut of Pentagram (most recently Robert A. M. Stern: Houses and Gardens and Landmarks of New York), Rick Valicenti of 3st (Emotion as Promotion: A Book of Thirst), and Lorraine Wild of Green Dragon (Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho, Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform, and a spectacular new book on Los Angeles, in stores later this spring). We're proud to be the only publisher to have worked with all three of these tremendously talented individuals.

2005 News and Reviews