Phaidon Press

Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide. As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo. The company publishes in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. Phaidon was founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1923 by Dr Bela Horowiz and Ludwig... More

Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide. As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo. The company publishes in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. Phaidon was founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1923 by Dr Bela Horowiz and Ludwig Goldscheider, with the objective of delivering high-quality books at affordable prices. They were able to achieve this as pioneers of the international co-edition and with large print-runs. Their first titles were not art books, but books on literature, philosophy and history. Phaidon's large-format art books first emerged in 1936 with plates on Van Gogh, Botticelli, and the French Impressionists. The Nazi's annexation of Austria forced the company to move to England. After the war, Phaidon launched a program of both popular and scholarly art...

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