Journal

For Those Who Believe in The Power of Ideals

Temples of Books explores the history, mission, architecture, and changing role of selected libraries around the world. Revealing extraordinary public and private collections, national and monaste...

Cam Honan's Guide To The Himalaya

Epic and mythical to all who are serious about hiking, the Himalaya could fill a lifetime of wandering and transcendence. In our latest title, Wanderlust Himalaya, we guide you through breathtakin...

The Obsessed: An Interview With Irwin Wong

The otaku’s passion is all-consuming. Whether it be cosplay, gothic, or rockabilly, when the Japanese embrace a subculture, they do it like no other. From Lolita fashion and latex couture to neon...

Global Coffee Culture: Tastes From Around The World

Coffee can act as a common denominator when learning about cultures or time periods that are not our own—a familiar thread through the unfamiliar. While coffee may look different in Vietnam than ...

Two Years on a Bike: What to Pack and How?

Could you live on the road, powered by nothing but your own two legs? When all of your belongings fit in a few bags, your office is a roadside diner, and your home is a meandering route from Canad...

Reinventing Cosy Living: This Old Hudson Maison

The countryside is calling. Already palpable before the pandemic, interest in the possibilities of rural living has now grown beyond what many of us could have ever imagined.

A Charming Children’s Tale of Nutrition and Life Outdoors

How does one pitch a book idea to gestalten? Or perhaps how to choose what aesthetic style the characters should be depicted in? Following the release of Sun and Shiro and the Polka-Dot Snake, we c...

The Smell of Success when Bringing Back a Brand

What does it take to awaken a 19th-century brand that fell behind with the times into a newfound source of inspiration to others? Ramdane Touhami lays bare his story in the foreword of The Beauty o...

A Peaceful Parisian Loft Full of Personality

Nestled in a typical passageway in the busy 11th arrondissement sits a tranquil-like loft that is a welcome escape from the streets of Paris. Once a derelict old factory, this family home was pains...

MilK and The Modern Family Home

Isis-Colombe Combréas, Founder and Editorial Director of the French-based MilK magazine, talks us through their gestalten debut and the significance of the family home in the age of lockdowns and t...