Think dreamy culture, bold visuals, and irresistible book lust — of 7 TASCHEN books to snag in the special sales this weekend (perfect for coffee tables, gifting, or just flexing aesthetic). TASCHEN’s archive spans art, photography, design, culture and beyond — and now is the moment to buy. You can do it online or walk to their store on Barquillo Street in the center of Madrid.
TASCHEN Store Madrid (Calle del Barquillo)
Why these picks matter: TASCHEN books aren’t just books — they’re artifacts. From photography and avant-garde art to design, travel and pop culture, they look good on a shelf and reward repeated flipping. And with sales live now, you can treat them less like indulgences and more like cultural investments.
1. You shouldn’t miss Ren Hang — the definitive international monograph on the late Chinese photographer whose surreal, naked, boundary-blurring images redefined contemporary photography and challenged conventions of gender, body and identity. It’s raw, poetic, provocative and essential for photography lovers.
2. Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions – A cult architectural odyssey into the surreal, space-age visions of Soviet modernism. Chaubin’s photographic pilgrimage through cosmic monuments, brutalist fantasies and forgotten utopias is one of TASCHEN’s most beloved visual feasts — shockingly beautiful and eerily poetic.
3. Virgil Abloh. Nike. ICONS – A deep dive into The Ten, the revolutionary collaboration between Virgil Abloh and Nike that upended sneaker culture with conceptual design and deconstructionist aesthetics. Packed with prototypes, messages, archival imagery and Abloh’s design philosophy, this is the book for fashion and design obsessives.
4. Peter Lindbergh On Fashion Photography 40th Ed – Lindbergh’s influence on modern imagery is unmatched. This anniversary edit is a masterclass in elegant, raw fashion and portrait photography — a must-own if you care about how the camera meets culture.
5. All-American Ads of the 90s — This isn’t just a book about ads; it’s about how a decade sold itself back to the world, and how those messages still echo in everything from sneaker culture to luxury branding today. If the 1990s had an aesthetic manifesto, All-American Ads of the 90s would be it — a hulking 640-page hardcover odyssey through the wild, witty, weird and wonderfully excessive advertising that defined a generation. Sex, silliness, consumerism and iconography all tangled together in an era that reshaped global pop culture.
6. Araki. This expansive TASCHEN edition is more than a photography book — it’s the definitive retrospective of Nobuyoshi Araki’s provocative visual universe. Spanning 512 pages of images selected by Araki himself, the collection captures the full range of his iconic subjects: gritty Tokyo street scenes, intimate portraits, vivid flowers, candid food shots and the controversial yet expressive portrayals of the human body that made him both celebrated and censored.
7. Tom of Finland XXL is a landmark celebration of queer visual culture and artistic liberation. Over 1,000 drawings, paintings and sketches from six decades of Tom of Finland’s career, many never before reproduced or shown in the order he intended for maximum impact. By bringing these works together with commissioned essays by cultural voices like Camille Paglia, John Waters and Armistead Maupin alongside scholarly analysis, the book canonizes Tom’s subversive aesthetic as art history, not just erotica.
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