A renowned Berlin-based publisher and creative agency, founded in 1995 by Robert Klanten, Markus Hollmann-Loges, and Andreas Peyerl. It is a leading global publisher of high-quality, visually driven books focusing on design, architecture, photography, and travel, all designed to inform and inspire their community.

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Penthouse Syndrome - Interiors Above the City

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Herrlich Hosting - Hosting Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

Creative Homes - Interiors and Design in the Netherlands

Cottagecore Gardens - A New Take on Living Landscapes

Cabin Fever - Enchanting Cabins, Shacks, and Hideaways

Wanderlust (Compact Edition) - Hiking on Legendary Trails

Surf Shacks Vol. 3 - Exploring the Spirit of Coastal Living

This Is Where We Live - Illustrated Stories of Place and Space

Ridiculously Good-Looking Saunas

Home For Now - Living Well Without Staying Long

Potato Total: Timeless Recipes for Every Home Cook

Originale: Recipes and Essentials of Italian Cooking

Rice and Shine: Recipes and Delicacies for Every Occasion

Eat Your Greens! Plant-focused recipes for the kitchen

Sourdough for All

Abraham's Kitchen: Israeli and Palestinian Food Culture and Recipes

The Mediterranean Home: Residential Architecture and Interiors with a Southern Touch

Mindful Places to Stay: Sublime Destinations for Yoga and Meditation

The Nature of Swimming: Unique Bathing Locations and Swimming Experiences

The Nordic Home: Scandinavian Living, Interiors and Design

Soft Minimal, Norm Architects: A Sensory Approach to Architecture and Design

Stillness: An Exploration of Japanese Aesthetics in Architecture and Design

The Touch: Spaces Designed for the Senses

The Incomplete Vol. 2: Highsnobiety Guide to Creative Collaborations Book

Creative Homes: Interiors and Design in Belgium

Onsen and Ryokan of Japan

Cottagecore

Remote Places to Stay Vol. 2

The Art Escapes Atlas

Designed to Stay: The Design Hotels Book

For the one who’s always discovering new restaurants, sourcing the best ingredients, and spending weekends perfecting recipes, discover gifts that celebrate their love of food and hosting. Think serveware, refined glassware for shared meals, cookbooks from culinary greats, and beautifully made tools designed for both function and flair. Each piece is chosen for those who find joy in creating, tasting, and bringing people together around the table. Perfect for the passionate home cook, the generous host, and the devoted foodie who believes every meal is a moment to savour.

Gifting For Foodies

A desk is the only surface in the house that nobody furnishes on purpose. Everything on it arrived for a reason and none of the reasons were aesthetic: the pen came free, the mug is from a conference, the paper is held down by whatever was nearest. Which is a shame, because it's where a lot of us now spend the hours we used to spend elsewhere. The ten brands here make the things that end up within arm's reach for years: mouth-blown glass paperweights, hand-built trays for the stuff that has nowhere else to go, a diary invented in 1908 to fit inside a breast pocket. None of it will make you work faster. That isn't the job.

10 Deskware Brands to Know

The first week of September. Back to school, and a lot on the horizon - Open House, Soho Jazz Festival, the city waking up again. These are the eight things that have inspired me this week.

8 Things That Inspired Me This Week

The second in our neighbourhood guide series - this time our Head of Creative Anna on Highbury.
​I walk everywhere. That's the whole thing, really. I'll add twenty minutes to a journey to avoid going underground, and in Highbury I almost never have to - the park, the high street, the good pubs, the shops I actually use, all of it is on foot from my front door.
It helps that there's genuinely somewhere to walk to. I'd say the best restaurants and pubs in London are within a mile of here, which I know sounds like the kind of thing everyone says about their own postcode, but I'll stand behind it.
Everything below are places I'd actually go.

My Neighbourhood with Glassette Head of Creative Anna Hale

“I've made so many friends all over the world and have had so many discussions with followers about books they've read and loved,” says Rachel Soo Thow, the visionary behind the online literary Instagram account, The Lit List, of the virtual community she’s cultivated. “On the other hand, I've also had conversations with readers about books they didn't love and why; and that's what I love about this community – discussion invites intrigue, and if I can create that, then my job is done.” The 187k people who follow Rachel (and counting) would undoubtedly agree.
What started as a page to document the books she loved, those she didn’t love quite so much, and why, has grown into a powerhouse. On the feed, you’ll find the New Zealand-based creative’s current reading list, accompanied by short blurbs about each novel, essays she’s reading to combat internet brain rot, her personal Substack essays, and much more.
Alongside this, Rachel has launched a subsidiary account, Litsy, where non-viral book recommendations – both old and new – can thrive. Her approach to reading is entirely mood-based, and she’ll often pick up a book and, “if it doesn't grab me, then I put it aside and move on to the next one”. Solid advice, to be honest.
Rachel is a woman who knows what she wants to read – so we caught up with her to find out which books will be occupying her summer, the head-scratchers that left her rethinking, well, everything, the essays she keeps returning to, and, most importantly, whether she’s a bookmark user or a page-folder.

Summer Reading List

Gifting is one of those things everyone wants to do well and almost no one has time to think about properly. The Glassette Gift List is here to do the thinking for you - one considered edit a month, built around the moments that actually matter.
No endless scrolling. No panic buying. Just the right things, for the right people, at the right time.

June Glassette Gift List

Britain is not, on paper, an obvious beach destination. The water is cold, the weather is unpredictable, and yet - on the right day, at the right tide - there are stretches of coastline here that rival anywhere in the world. Powder-white sand backed by machair grassland in the Outer Hebrides. Vast, empty dune systems in Norfolk that make you feel genuinely alone. Dramatic sea stacks off the Antrim coast, turquoise coves in Cornwall that look lifted from somewhere considerably further south. The secret, of course, is knowing where to go, and being prepared to get a little windswept getting there.

The Best Beaches in the UK

From the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany to the whitewashed shores of Mílos, Europe’s most beautiful summer stays promise slow mornings, long lunches and unforgettable views. Check into Il Palazzotto or Casa Newton for romantic Italian charm, or escape to Hotel Mediterraneo on Kastellorizo for turquoise waters and laid-back glamour. In Portugal, Muxima in Aljezur offers barefoot luxury, while La Colombe d’Or in St Paul-de-Vence remains an icon for art lovers. Marseille’s Tuba Club, Nice’s Hotel du Couvent and Mallorca’s Hotel Corazón capture the effortless elegance of a Mediterranean summer escape.

Top European Summer Hotels

May Glassette Gift List

There is a particular kind of swimming that has nothing to do with lanes, lap counters, or chlorine. It happens at the edge of things - where land meets ocean, where rock has been shaped by tide and time, where the water is cold and alive and connected to something much larger than a pool. It happens in places that were carved by volcanoes, built by hand during the Depression, or simply discovered one afternoon at the end of a rocky path.
They exist on almost every coastline in the world, and no two are alike. Some are grand civic monuments, art deco curves cut against a crashing surf. Some are nothing more than a hollow in the lava, filled twice a day by the Atlantic. Some are free, some are heritage listed, some require a scramble down a cliff to reach. What they share is harder to define - a quality of place, of wildness held just barely in check, of swimming that feels like it actually means something.
This is a celebration of the best of them. From the sun-bleached rock pools of Australia to the volcanic coastlines of Iceland and Madeira, from the lidos of Cornwall to a hidden lagoon on a Greek island most people haven't heard of - these are the pools worth travelling for. Bring a towel. The water's cold. Get in anyway!

The World's Best Sea Pools

This Mother’s Day, celebrate love, care and gratitude. For every kind of mothering, from mums and step-mums to grandmothers, aunties, godmothers and the friends who show up like one, we’ve curated a gift guide made for giving thanks. Whether they are a breakfast-in-bed person or a “don’t fuss” minimalist, find something that says thank you.

Mother's Day Gifting

If Pantone’s Colour of the Year set the baseline, consider these its brighter counterparts.
Looking to SS26 fashion as an early reference point, interiors appear to be moving in the same direction: colour with more presence, less noise. Grape, Fuchsia, Lime and Flame Orange are saturated but considered, bringing depth, warmth and a lift to the home. Used as a single statement or paired for contrast, they’re the shades we’re watching for 2026.

2026 Colour Trends

January arrives with a sense of pressure. Reset routines. Restore balance. Do better. Yet in the coldest, quietest month of the year, the idea of stripping life back to discipline alone feels at odds with the season itself. There’s comfort in slower mornings, earlier nights and spaces that support everyday rituals without excess. Wellbeing doesn’t need to be performative to be effective. Sometimes it’s found in sitting well, resting properly and creating a home that makes balance feel natural, not forced.

Health, comfort or both?

This week’s moodboard is a combination of some of the most classic Christmas film interiors - from softly lit family rooms to cosy cottages, lived-in London houses filled with unapologetically festive decorations.

Christmas Film Interiors

For all your gifting moments with the bookworm in your life! For the friend who always has a book in their bag. Think a new book from Phaidon or Gestalten to spark their next deep dive, a bookshelf from Mustard Made or Six Dots for their ever-growing collection, or a pair of bookends to keep their latest favourites standing tall.

Gifting for Bookworms

For all your gifting moments with the baker in your life! For the friend who brings homemade cookies to every gathering, or the colleague who’s always trialling a new loaf. These are gifts that feel thoughtful without the second-guessing. Think a baking book from Phaidon or Gestalten to spark their next creation, a set of baking tools from Dexam or Our Place, or a classic Le Creuset piece to elevate their kitchen repertoire.

Gifting for Bakers

This year my idea for giving gifts to my friends & family is to think of the thing that they get most excited about, the everyday ritual they do at home that brings out their most creative self. I’ve curated gifts for the person who treats every morning coffee like a work of art, the zealous home cook, the beginner photographer, the person who always goes the extra mile when you come over for dinner and the colour lover who is always mood-boarding & collecting ideas for their future home. I hope that my approach gives you some clues about how to find the perfect gift for your loved ones this season! We have curated everything you need for everyone on your list on Glassette.
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Laura’s Top Christmas Gifts

For the nature lover who feels most at peace surrounded by the outdoors, discover gifts that bring the beauty of nature home. Think gardening books filled with inspiration, packets of seeds ready to bloom, botanical prints, and handwoven baskets that echo the textures of the wild. Each piece is rooted in nature’s tones and rhythms - designed to ground, calm, and reconnect. Perfect for those who cherish morning light, open windows, and time spent outdoors, these gifts celebrate the quiet magic of the natural world and the joy of watching things grow.