Phaidon Press's Blog, page 122

Naps with eating - Magnus Nilsson on Nordic snack breaks

Coffee and snack breaks are known as fika the Nordic Baking Book author says - and theyre great for productivity

Raf Simons on why Warhol is a perfect fit for Calvin Klein

Raf says Warhols portraits prove he was truly democratic (but he does love the Death and Disaster series too)

Alejandro Aravenas brutal beach house is for sale

Like to slip off your office gear and gaze into a fire at weekends Got 15m This place could be right for you

How Annie Leibovitz pictured Sally Manns sense of place

How does Americas ultimate portrait photographer shoot Americas ultimate family photographer With tact

Was Verner Panton the most avant-garde of Danish designers

The 20th century design visionary took Scandi interiors for a walk on the wild side of industrial production

Sex, Death, Sigmund Freud and Sarah Lucas

Heres how the controversial artist showed her risqu sculptures in Freuds historic London house

The war that made Robert Capa

On the Magnum founders birthday, we look back at his most famous book, Death in the Making

How Annie Leibovitz caught Richard Nixons final flight

Leibovitz recalls teaming up with Hunter S Thompson to document Tricky Dickys dishonourable departure

Exhausting, Exhilarating, Exasperating but Inspiring - David Dawson at Sothebys on sitting for Lucian Freud

Long time assistant and Freud Archive Director reveals what it was like to sit for the great painter

5 things we learned on the Brutal Bus tour

Prince Charles called the National Theatre a nuclear power station, The Royal College of Physicians is based on the human body and only 50 people lived in the Barbican when the Barbican was built (none of them architects!)