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How Benedikt Taschen conquered the global book market
From comics to fetish photos: In honor of his 60th birthday, DW takes a look at the secret of the German publisher s success with his Taschen art books.
Publisher Benedikt Taschen turns 60
Publisher Benedikt Taschen was born in Cologne on February 10, 1961. At the age of 18, he founded a comic book publishing company in his hometown and soon began sending copies around the world.
Shortly thereafter, he switched to the art book business and, in 1984, he had his first major success. With the money he had scraped together from his aunt and parents, he bought 40,000 copies of an illustrated book by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte at a trade fair in the US for $1 each. Within a short time, he had sold all the volumes at a significant profit, 9.99 deutsche marks (equivalent to about €5 or $6 today).
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California has been a hotbed of architectural changes and innovation. From the wacky to the sublime, this list shows the wide range of architectural experimentation and aesthetics in the Golden State.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
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Bernard Maybeck viewed the architectural canon as a style smorgasbord. Gothic, Romanesque, Asian, Arts and Crafts, Classicism all were there to be sampled, interpreted, and reintroduced as California Craftsman. His belief in pure materials untreated redwood shingles, exposed reinforced concrete, raw timber trellises was balanced by unbridled curiosity for new materials, colors, and patterns combined in untested ways. But whereas his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright knew where to stop before exuberance skids into excess, Ma