Phaidon is the premier global publisher of the creative arts. We work with the world's most influential authors to produce innovative books on art, photography, design, architecture, fashion, food, and travel, and illustrated books for children. Renowned for their outstanding design and content, Phaidon books are objects of beauty, to live with and learn from. Our books are reminders of the creativity all around us. This year Phaidon celebrates its 100th anniversary. A century on, our books continue to enlighten, delight, and inspire.

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Japan The Vegetarian Cookbook

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Japan The Cookbook

Mexico the Cookbook

The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook

Ikoyi A Journey Through Bold Heat with Recipes

The British Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking Recipes from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

Chop, Sizzle, Wow The Silver Spoon Comic Cookbook

You Had Better Make Some Noise: Words to Change the World (Paperback)

Eataly Contemporary Italian Cooking

Maximalism: Bold, Bedazzled, Gold, and Tasseled Interiors (Hardback)

Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie's (Hardback)

The Silver Spoon for Children: Favourite Italian Recipes (Hardback)

Chair: 500 Designs that Matter (Hardback)

Blush: Contemporary Makeup Artists (Hardback)

African Artists: From 1882 to Now (Hardback)

The Art Book (Hardback)

Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting (Hardback)

Atlas of Brutalist Architecture (Hardback)

The Contemporary Garden (Hardback)

Cat (Hardback)

30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity across Time and Space (Hardback)

A Work in Progress: A Journal (Hardback) 

Vitamin V

The Spanish Mediterranean Islands Cookbook

Tadao Ando

Alessandro Mendini

The Inner Life of the Artist

Mid-Century Modern Designers

The Regional Italian Cookbook

Harland Miller: XXX

Made by MSCHF

Blue & Other Colours

China

Japan Style

Squares & Other Shapes

Up, Down & Other Opposites

Breakfast, Lunch, Tea

Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children

Defining Style

Birds & Other Animals

The Talks - No Idea Is Final

Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers

Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists

Italian Interiors

The Book of Pasta

Crumbs

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

For the one who loves a long bath, a proper cup of tea and a night in, these are gifts under £50 that still feel special. There’s a harlequin hot water bottle by CHICKPEA for the friend who’s still holding out on the heating, a porcelain shell soap dish by Minnie-Mae Studio for the bathroom shelf, and the Café Cecilia cookbook from Phaidon for the one who’d happily spend all weekend cooking.
Each one is picked with a particular person in mind, the kind who likes nice things and actually uses them. Gift something lovely this Christmas.

Gifting Under £50

Surfer Ainara (@ainaraymat) lives in Zarautz, twenty minutes along the coast from San Sebastián. We followed her between the two, from the coffee bar she starts the day in to a pintxos counter where nobody sits down. These are the places she keeps going back to, and the ones most visitors walk straight past.
With Magic Capture on Google Pixel 11 Pro, she films the wave and pulls the stills out afterwards, so she can watch the water instead of the screen.
Watch Ainara’s guide to San Sebastián on Instagram.

San Sebastián and Zarautz Guide

Sir Paul Smith has been a shopkeeper since 1970, when he opened a room in Nottingham that traded on Fridays and Saturdays only. Fifty-six years later he still works the floor on Albemarle Street on a Saturday, which tells you most of what you need to know. His London is a small one, and it is walked. Bury Street for the galleries, Holborn for the Soane, Claridge's at Christmas, Covent Garden for a shop that sells enamel dustpans. It is the list of a man who has spent fifty years looking at things and deciding which ones are worth keeping.

Paul Smith's Guide to London

September doesn't ask permission. The light goes early, the diary fills up, and everyone starts talking about soup. Some of us find this cheering. Others are still quietly mourning August. Either way the response tends to be the same, which is a bit of shuffling about at home: a candle lit for the first time since May, new bedding, the blanket that lives on the sofa for the next six months.
So we asked the team what they're bringing in this season. Below, the small and specific things making the handover from summer to autumn feel less like an ending.

How the Glassette team refreshes for Autumn

The centrepiece has been demoted. In its place: the salad bouquet, a vase of lettuce or kale arranged stem-down. Little Gem, lola rosa, a wedge of radicchio for colour. Edible flowers are optional, though nobody who has come this far tends to leave them out.

Trending Now: Salad Bouquets

Our Co-Founder and Creative Director Laura Jackson drives two weeks up Ireland's west coast.
"Every summer we go somewhere less obvious. Last year Sweden and Gotland, this year Ireland. Three kids under six, a family van, a ferry from Holyhead into Rosslare, and two weeks working our way up the Wild Atlantic Way. We had planned to do it in a camper until we saw the price. What I hadn't expected was the food - local, seasonal, plain and very good - or how much better a pub is when there is live music and nobody is looking at your children. Tropical-looking beaches, cold Atlantic swims, lobster eaten on an empty stretch of sand. Ireland has my heart." Laura

Ireland Guide

Our Monthly What’s On is a curated round-up of the exhibitions, restaurant openings, residencies and gigs we’re making plans for. From gallery shows and design fairs to new tables worth booking, cultural moments to catch, and the under-the-radar events you’ll wish you’d heard about sooner.
Think of it as your cultural compass for the month ahead: a considered edit of art, food, music and design, chosen to inspire weekends well spent.

What's On In September

The listening bar has been having its moment - low lights, drinks, someone earnest behind the turntable. Now the ritual is moving home, and the hi-fi evening has become something you host rather than book. Think a turntable given pride of place, records shelved to be seen, seating arranged around the speakers rather than the television. It's hosting at its most generous: one album, played properly, start to finish. We've curated the room - the music, mercifully, remains yours. Below, everything but the B-sides. 

Trending Now: The Home Listening Room

Hannah Drye never set out to make "London-style" pizza - that's a label other people attached to it. What she set out to make was thin, crispy pizza she actually wanted to eat, first from the back of a car at weekend markets, then through pub residencies, and now as XL slices and whole 20-inch pies at All My Friends in Hackney Wick.
Here, the Dough Hands founder talks 72-hour proves, why truffle oil never stood a chance, the fish finger sandwich she'd genuinely put on a pizza, and the scotch bonnet hot honey you can make at home with a day's patience.

Is This The Best Pizza in London?

We all know summer changes (and raises the stakes of) a London date. The city stays light until ten, the pavements fill up, and suddenly "drinks?" feels like a wasted opportunity. This is a list for doing it properly - organised not by postcode but by the kind of date you're on. The nervy first coffee. The ice cream that's really an excuse for a walk. The wine bar where things get interesting. The spot that becomes a permanent fixture long after the first, third and fifth date. And, naturally, for when it matters, somewhere special. Twenty places, five categories, one long summer. Use accordingly.

Where to go for summer dates in London

Since welcoming his first child a year ago, Glassette co-founder Daniel Crow finds a deeper meaning in the rhythm of fatherhood. “I used to imagine it as something more dramatic than it is,” he says, reflecting on life with his daughter. In recent months, he comes to value routine and repetition, where it’s in the small, ordinary moments that rich memories are built. “Now, I think it's mostly about being present and available.”
For Dan, who was raised in Nottingham, his first shining example of fatherhood stems from his relationship with his father, Allan, who he cites as having “never missed one of my football matches, despite not being a fan of the sport”. Today, he still treasures that relationship and doesn’t hesitate to call him for practical advice and menial life tasks – and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
To celebrate Father’s Day and one year of being a father, Dan talks through singalongs with his daughter to Alicia Keys, turning her into an R&B enthusiast, his ultimate TV dad, and how the beauty of being a dad is shaped by embracing the unknown and soaking up joy in the quiet.

A Dad’s first year journey

Rome has captivated travellers for centuries, but few know how to unlock the city quite like Emily FitzRoy. As founder of Bellini Travel, she's spent the past 26 years introducing clients to a side of Italy that most visitors never see - from extraordinary private access and under-the-radar experiences to the people and places that make a trip truly unforgettable. It's an expertise that has also seen her work with HBO as the Italian specialist behind The White Lotus and Succession. Here, Emily shares her insider's guide to the Eternal City, with her tips on where to go, when to visit and how to experience Rome beyond the crowds.

Rome Guide

From Neapolitan-style pies in Mayfair to wood-fired slices in Newquay, England's pizza scene has quietly become something worth travelling for. Whether you're after Bar Etna - the Newington Green collaboration between Four Legs' Ed McIlroy and Philadelphia pizza legend Joe Beddia, whose original spot was once named Best Pizza in America by Bon Appétit - the sourdough seriousness of Dough Hands, the natural-wine-bar energy of Rosa in Newquay, or the gloriously no-nonsense spirit of Bad Boy Pizza Society, there's a slice and a setting for every mood. We've rounded up the best spots from London to Manchester to Sheffield, because great pizza deserves a proper pilgrimage.

The Best Pizza in England

Dopamine Dressing, Dark Romanticism, and the Return of Maximalism. The 2026 Met Gala looks as the interior trends we're seeing right now. The theme was fashion as fine art, but every look told us something about the rooms we're craving right now.

Met Gala As Interiors

Put the kettle on and spend five minutes with Holly Middleton-Joseph, head chef and director of Hausu in Peckham, and you quickly sense that cooking, for her, is rooted in instinct, heritage and honesty. Raised across cultures, with Chinese and Trinidadian roots woven into everything she makes, she came up through some of London's most respected kitchens before stumbling, almost accidentally, into a restaurant of her own.
After a phone call out of the blue and a month of building something from scratch on a shoestring, Hausu was born - and with it, a DIY spirit that still runs through every corner of the place. Now a National Restaurant Awards Rising Star, Holly reflects on cooking without a label, the new late-night bar upstairs, and why the food always has to feel true to her first.

The Rising Star Behind Peckham's Best-Kept Secret

London summers are fleeting, which means when the sun finally shows up, you need to know exactly where to be. Whether you're after a lazy long lunch, golden-hour wine, or a proper feast under the open sky, the capital's outdoor dining scene delivers. From canal-side spots in Hackney to buzzy terraces in Soho and neighbourhood gems scattered across the city, we've rounded up the very best restaurants for eating outside in London, because table selection matters just as much as what's on the menu.

Outdoor Dining In London

A classic colour pairing that harmonises in all the right ways, chocolate and duck egg are understated by design. A rich, velvety brown meets a soft, chalky blue-green - earthy warmth against cool calm.
Chocolate brings depth and grounding, while duck egg brings quiet freshness and a touch of the unexpected. Together, they complement each other effortlessly, creating a look that feels timeless, considered, and quietly confident.

Chocolate & Duck Egg

Spend a few minutes with Dee Rettali, Founder of Fortitude Bakehouse and you quickly sense that baking, for her, is rooted in instinct, memory and place. Raised in rural North Cork, surrounded by farmland and seasonal produce, she grew up learning to bake from her mother and grandmother - soda breads, jams and apple pies made simply and well.
After moving to London in the late 80s, Dee found her calling in professional baking, eventually founding Fortitude Bakehouse, now known for its nostalgic, craft-led bakes. Here, she reflects on Irish food traditions, instinctive baking and the flavours that still define home.

St Patrick’s Day with Dee

Thoughtful gifts for new arrivals - beautiful, practical, and designed to be loved for years. From a Cushy Puff pregnancy pillow to support the days before birth, to a children’s print by Yaya Studios or Surprise Radish for the nursery.