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Simonett & Baer Simonett & Baer Catalogue 2018 Formerly known as The Name Books and Edition Dino Simonett* SimonettSophisticated Art Books in Splendid Beauty® Impressum:& Concept, Editorial and PhotosBaer Dino Simonett, Production Martina Baer Graphic Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier of Bureau Mia Zürich Typeface: Times LT Std Proof reading Samuel Penn Printed at Offizin Scheufele Stuttgart Paper Stock is Munken Print White 1.5 150 gsm Bound at Grossbuchbinderei Spinner Ottersweier Edition of 5000 ISBN 978-3-906313-17-7 Basel, September 2017 ©Simonett&Baer Please Support Us! Contents 1 Cover Iouri Podladtchikov on Lake Zürich 2 Inside Cover Art Basel at Schöneck Brunnen 3 Impressum, Contents and Publisher’s Note Buy one of the only 100 4–7 Valerio Olgiati, Projects 2009–2017 hardcover-bound Collector’s Editions of 8–9 Franz Kafka, Die Mäuse this marvellous catalogue for € / CHF 100 10 –11 Iouri Podladtchikov, True Love is Hard to Find or more. Thank you for supporting newness and cultural relevance! 12–13 Luca Zanetti, E-Bike Diaries [email protected] 14 –15 Dino Simonett, White Elephant 16 Four Commissioned Architecture Books 18 –24 Backlist The Name Books / Edition Dino Simonett 25–27 Dino Simonett Bookbags, Bagladies & Fancy Leather Goods 28–31 Collaborators & About Us 32 Back Cover Valerio Olgiati at Pero Cuco, Alentejo Simonett & Baer St. Alban–Vorstadt 68 4052 Basel Switzerland 061 271 31 95 [email protected] simonettbaer.com Please send your orders to: [email protected] *In 2017 The Name Books and Edition Dino Simonett merged into Simonett & Baer AG – a logical transformation into the right thing at the right time & place. Bruno Margreth left us as co-publisher – he has now established his own label with the name “About Books” – but is staying with us as an indispensable book designer and friend. Cover: Iouri Podladtchikov, Zürichsee, June 2017. Photo David Hürlimann 2 Inside Cover: This can-installation by artist Sophie Nys was part of the Art Parcours at Schöneck Brunnen near our studio – where we take a cooling bath on hot summer days, see page 30. Valerio Olgiati Projects 2009 – 2017 Valerio Olgiati Valerio Olgiati is regarded Valerio Olgiati Track List Top Five: by many – especially by younger generations – as the most 1 Tannhäuser, Wagner influential architect of our time. 2 Apassionata, Beethoven The visionary tractatus 3 Sodade, Cesaria Evora Non-Referential Archtecture – 4 Push-Push, Rockers Hi-Fi ideated by Valerio Olgaiti, written by 5 Hey Joe, Willy de Ville Markus Breitschmid – will be published by Walther Koenig later on this year. 26.5 x 24 cm, 276 pages, 200 photos, plan drawings and renderings, Text by Jacques Lucan Project descriptions by Valerio Olgiati, Book Design Dino Simonett with Bruno Margreth English Edition: ISBN 978–3–906313–11–5 Deutsche Ausgabe: ISBN 978–3–906313–14–6 Price € 135 / CHF 145 The most fascinating architect of our times seduces us into his world of wonders. Nineteen amazing and very unique projects are featured, most of them unseen. The photographs, plan-drawings and renderings are all created in the same aesthetic language – Shahrazad opens the book of 1001 nights and tells you her tales. → Photo left: Valerio Olgiati is photographing the Laax House in Summer 2016. Any possible connection between the pullover of Mr. Olgiati and the linen book cloth we chose for the new monograph is purely coincidential. Valerio Olgiati Projects 2009 – 2017 Valerio Olgiati 26.5 x 24 cm, 276 pages, 200 photos, plan drawings and renderings, Text by Jacques Lucan Project descriptions by Valerio Olgiati, Book Design Dino Simonett with Bruno Margreth English Edition: ISBN 978–3–906313–11–5 Deutsche Ausgabe: ISBN 978–3–906313–14–6 Price € 135 / CHF 145 The most beautiful book we ever created is ready for the marble tables of the queens and the sheiks, the crowded workshops of the architecture schools and the bureaus and ateliers of architects around the globe. Featured are a.o. “House for a Priest” in Abensberg (above), the “Office Building for Baloise Headquarters” in Basel, the “Cassons Cableway” in Flims, the “CELINE Flagship Store” in Miami and the “Pearling Site” in Muharraq in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Pictured left you can see a stunning view of Villa Além, the home of the architect in Alentejo / Portugal. The building is surrounded by cork oak trees of all sizes and ages – and suddenly you don’t know anymore if you are in a Maya temple or in a Science Fiction film setting. Franz Kafka Die Mäuse Pilotband zur Walbaum-Edition Franz Kafka Franz Kafka Track List Top Five: 1 Germany – Hoch, Hoch der Kaiser! Franz Kafka wurde 1889 Whit Cunliffe, June 1913 in Prag geboren und starb mit 2 Aldega: Domine Salvum, einundvierzig Jahren an Tuberkulose. Alessandro Moreschi, Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten The Last Castrato, 1903 Schriftsteller des zwanzigsten 3 Nach meine Beene ist janz Berlin Jahrhunderts. Seine Texte sind verrückt, Claire Waldorff visionär und hochaktuell 4 My Lucky Star, Paul Whiteman und werden weltweit übersetzt, 5 Das Rothschildlied, Paul Morgan zitiert und diskutiert. 15.3 x 23.8 cm, 64 Seiten, Auszüge aus Briefen an Felix Weltsch, Max Brod, Oskar Baum und Milena Jesenskà Buchgestaltung Dino Simonett mit Bruno Margreth Limitierte Auflage von 1001 Exemplaren ISBN 978–3–906313–12–2 € 32 / CHF 36 Jeder Satz von Franz Kafka ist klar und scharf wie ein frisch geschliffener Diamant. Wenn man den Diamant unter dem Vergrösserungsglas betrachtet, versinkt man in Kafkas ewiggültigen Mysterien und Wunderwelten. Die Lupe ist in unserem Fall die übergrosse Walbaum-Schrift in 16 Punkt. Kafka hat diese selber bei zwei seiner Bücher gewünscht – wir legen nun alle zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Werke in loser Folge neu vor – alle in 16 Punkt. “Die Mäuse” ist der Pilotband. Das Portrait von Franz Kafka ist ein Ausschnitt aus dem berühmten Verlobungsbild mit Felice Bauer, Budapest Juli 1917. Es ist mein Lieblings- portrait von Kafka, sein Blick ist klar und tief, warm und fast schon “normal” – alles schien noch möglich. ©Sammlung Klaus Wagenbach Iouri Podladtchikov True Love is Hard to Find Polaroids from the early 21st century Iouri Pod- ladtchikov Iouri Podladtchikov (*1988) is photographing since the age Iouri Podladtchikov Track List Top Five: of sixteen, he is building up studios in Zürich and in Williamsburg NYC. 1 Lady/Drive, Chromatics He is a professional snowboarder 2 Irgendwo uff me Schtai hockt worldwide known for his olympic en Chäfer, Igor Podladtchikov gold medal in Sotchi 2014. 3 Chi Mai, Le Professionel, Ennio Morricone Currently he is focusing like a samurai 4 Wild Horses, Rolling Stones on the next games in Korea. 5 My Gypsy Son, Vladimir Vysotsky But there is still some space left to work on his second book “Winter Dreams”. 16.5 x 24 cm, 64 pages, fifty-five polaroid photographs Printed in five colours HD-UV* at Robstolk Amsterdam Book Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier Limited edition of 2000 numbered books, Collector’s Edition on request ISBN 978–3–906313–07–8 € 32 / CHF 36 Iouri Podladtchikov (*1988) is in love with photography since he was sixteen. He works and plays with every possible camera and tool – but Polaroid is a special fascination for him. We selected fifty-five personal pictures from thousands – and transformed them into this very personal album of his friends and loves. A stunning debut! Pictured left: Vivi and Louisa, Bar 3000, Zürich, 2016. “True Love Is Hard To Find” as a title for the book immediately came to my mind when I saw into the hearts and souls of these young and beautiful people. *The printed sheets are dried with High-Density Ultra-Violet light. Luca Zanetti E-Bike Diaries 11’150 Kilometres on a Electric Bicycle Through Latin America Luca Zanetti Luca Zanetti (*1971) is a Swiss photographer based in Zürich and Luca Zanetti Track List Top Five: Colombia. His main focus is on Latin 1 Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin American themes, a continent that deeply 2 Harlem Samba, Dizzy Gillespie fascinates him since the mid-eighties. 3 Cafe Atlantico, Cesaria Evora He publishes his thrilling reportages and 4 Amoroso, Joao Gilberto commissioned work worldwide – always 5 Hells Bells, AC/DC with a personal and authentic view concerned with human beings and the environment they live in. 16.5 x 24 cm, 64 pages, 55 colour photographs Text by Luca Zanetti, Editor’s Note by Dino Simonett Book Design Dino Simonett with Bruno Margreth Limited edition of 1000 books, Collector’s Edition on request ISBN 978–3–906313–08–5 € 32 / CHF 36 “When you travel by bike you are much closer to people and this reflects in your pictures”, Luca Zanetti told me when I asked him why he didn't take a car. Highly developed E-Bikes make it possible that you travel “eco friendly” within reasonable time and come home with outstanding photomaterial and very authentic views you have never seen before. Luca Zanetti – riding on the Flyer E-Bike – above the Sacred Valley near Maras, a fertile region which formed the heart of the Inca Empire. Region of Cuzco, Peru. Photo Alex Kornhuber Dino Simonett White Elephant One week in Tokyo Probably the last photo book printed on Chromolux 800 paper White Elephant Our book creator and publisher Dino Dino Simonett Track List Top Five: Simonett (*1963) is in love with 1 Magnets ft. Lorde, Disclosure photography since ever but he is not a 2 Che Strano Amore Questo Amore, photographer. Nevertheless he makes Pino D’Angio a photo book now and then and spends 3 Strong Relax, Ryuichi Sakamoto endless months on dozens of layouts 4 Na Cadência do Samba, Cassia Eller and dummies until he is satisfied 5 Kiss Me Goodnight, Jack Hilton with the result.