Jap Sam Books
Jap Sam Books, headed by Eleonoor Jap Sam, is an independent international publishing house based in the south of the Netherlands and publishes titles that explore developments in architecture, art, philosophy, design, photography and theory as well as the fields that touch them, such as urbanism, landscape, sociology and history.
Taiwan Strait - Conscious City Incubator
by Raoul Bunschoten, CHORA
The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-08-9
Hardcover, 480 pages, 230 x 290 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 55,00
Six impossible things before breakfast
Ingrid De Coster, Bas Schevers, Loes Verstappen
A journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-05-8
Softcover unbound, 296p, 170 x 230 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 45,00
Ansuya Blom - Below the Underground
Artist: Ansuya Blom
Editing: Ansuya Blom, Laurie Cluitmans, Eleonoor Jap Sam
Design: Studio Kader / Carolina Aboarrage
In drawings, collages, films and installations, Ansuya Blom unravels complex relationships of humanity with the self, the other and the outside world.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-09-6
Softcover, 288 pages, 205 x 325 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 35,00
My Mom Wants to go Back Home
Artist: Hanna Hrabarska
Graphic Design: Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder)
My Mom Wants to Go Back Home is a documentary diary by photographer Hanna Hrabarska. Together with her mother Iryna, she fled the war in Ukraine, to find a temporary home in the Netherlands.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-07-2
Hardcover, 216 pages, 210 x 270 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 50,00
Diana Scherer - Interwoven
Editing, compilation & concept: Eleonoor Jap Sam, Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder), Diana Scherer
Diana Scherer's work comprises botany, installations, textile and biotechnology. Scherer explores the relationship of people versus their natural environment.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-03-4
Softcover, 208 pages, 230 x 320 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 39,95
Role of Play
Authors: Ben Schouten, Menno Deen
Graphic design: Studio Renate Boere
Role of Play investigates what new rules of play are to come, several decades after the advent of videogames.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-97-7
Softcover, 296 pages, 170 x 230 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
EURASIA - An Atlas
Artist: Nav Haq, Joanna Zieliñska [eds.]
Graphic Design: Tariq Heijboer
A reader surveying the cultural and conceptual landscape of the Eurasia, offering theoretical and artistic insights into a progressive Eurasianism.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-76-2
Softcover, 400 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 34,00
Notes on Happiness
Text: Alex Farrar
Graphic Design: studioHendriksen
A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness. Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-00-3
Softcover, 184 pages, 72 x 142 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 24,50
A Black Collage
Author: Rob Perrée
Editor Eleonoor Jap Sam
Design by Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder)
Rob Perrée tells the story of his involvement in African-American art, from 1990 to 2020
ISBN: 978-94-92852-89-2
Paperback, 512 pages, 120 x 190 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 27,50
The File on D. / Dossier D.
Art & Photography: Arianne Olthaar
Text: Arnon Grunberg
Graphic Design: Studio Janneke Hendriks
This fold-out book of photographs of hotel interiors in the former Eastern Bloc by visual artist Arianne Olthaar, challenges the imagination to create its own space and story while wandering through the cinematic empty spaces.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-04-1
Laporello, 32 pages, 174 x 249 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
The Artistic Attitude
Anke Coumans, Hans van Driel
Graphic Design: MARK IT ZERO
The Artistic Attitude includes interviews with Sanne Boekel, Jeroen Boomgaard, Barend van Heusden, Anita Koops, Jedidja Smalbil, Jonas Staal and Bibi Straatman.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-95-3
Paperback, 176 pages, 130 x 195 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 24,50
De Artistieke Attitude
Anke Coumans, Hans van Driel
Graphic Design: MARK IT ZERO
Interviews met Sanne Boekel, Jeroen Boomgaard, Barend van Heusden, Anita Koops, Jedidja Smalbil, Jonas Staal and Bibi Straatman. NL versie!
ISBN: 978-94-92852-94-6
Paperback, 176 pages, 130 x 195 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 24,50
Jan van de Pavert - Collected Works
Artist: Jan van de Pavert
Text: Jan van de Pavert, Mark Kremer
Graphic Design: Studio Remco van Bladel
Jan van de Pavert - Collected Works is a richly illustrated body of work covering the artist’s oeuvre of the past years.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-78-6
Hardcover, 328 pages, 165 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 35,00
Fugitive Archives
Claire Lubell, Rafico Ruiz eds.
A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture. It is a book about the role of primary research in the work of the fellows and about how, to centre Africa in histories of architecture, they had to develop new ways of finding, seeing, and listening.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-93-9
Softcover, 232 pages, 240 x 310 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
— / BLAST / HEAT / Han Schuil
Artist: Han Schuil
Design: PutGootink
As the title of this monograph indicates, the focus is on three series: -- (untitled), BLAST and HEAT. In all three, the possibilities of the paintings and their way of producing meaning are investigated with monumental paintings on aluminium, and in ways as enigmatic as they are concrete.
ISBN: 978-94-93329-02-7
Softcover, 312 pages, 230 x 305 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 39,95
The Artist as Explorer
Concept & Idea: Madelon Hooykaas
Design: Inedition (Eva van der Schans)
An archetypical explorer is deemed to be someone who pushes boundaries and embraces unexpected discoveries. An extensive monograph on the work of Madelon Hooykaas.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-99-1
Softcover, 272 pages, 210 x 275 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 39,95
Stitch Your Brain
Author: Author Monika Auch
Graphic design: SJG / Joost Grootens
Unique hybrid project touching both the fields of science and art by textile artist and former M.D. Monika Auch.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-77-9
Softcover, 264 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
Out Side In Side Out
Authors: Linda Molenaar, Fredie Beckmans
Graphic Design: Inedition (Eva van der Schans)
Out Side In Side Out is an overview of 25 years of work by Dutch visual artist and performer Linda Molenaar, linking animal aspects in humans with human aspects in animals.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-96-0
Softcover, 144 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
[UN]FINISHED
Authors: Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot
Atlas of Athens’ Incomplete Buildings, A Story of Hidden anti monuments
ISBN: 978-94-92852-26-7
Hardcover, 288 pages, 195 x 275 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
OPEN-ENDED VISIONS OF POSSIBILITIES
Artist: patricia kaersenhout
OPEN-ENDED VISIONS OF POSSIBILITIES holds thoughtful conversations, insightful contributions, and poetry exploring patricia kaersenhout's artistic practice and oeuvre over the years. Printed on leftover paperstock consisting of 14 different papers and fully loose-leafed, designed by Inedition (Eva van der Schans).
ISBN: 978-94-92852-91-5
254 pages, 185 x 250 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 35,00
De Onderstroom | The Undercurrent
Artists: Robbie Corenlissen & Karin van Dam
Graphic Design: -SYB-
This publication gives an insight into the distinctive and long-standing collaboration between two artists, who, in addition to their own artistic practice, find each other in shared fascinations.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-90-8
Softcover, 64 pages, 195 x 290 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 17,50
Thomas Trum - Daily Spins
Artist: Thomas Trum
Graphic Design: Team Thursday
Every cover of this edition of 1500 is sprayed with two colours by Team Thomas Trum and this makes every edition of this monograph unique.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-86-1
Softcover, 640 pages, 165 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 65,00
Act of Alignment
Author: Hee-Seung Choi
Design: ARK (Roosje Klap & Maïwenn Brochen)
Hee-Seung Choi is drawn to the word alignment as it assumes starting from a place of willingness and openness with respect to each other, aiming to meet each other on the same vertical or horizontal axis
ISBN: 978-94-92852-92-2
Softcover, 104 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 24,50
Hannah van Bart
Artist: Hannah van Bart
Graphic Design: PutGootink
The monograph Hannah van Bart contains over more than 100 art works (paintings and drawings) and gives an intriguing look at the work of Dutch artist Hannah van Bart (1963).
ISBN: 978-94-92852-87-8
Softcover, 224 pages, 230 x 300 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 35,00
Reuse to Reduce
Jan Willem ter Steege ed.
Graphic Design: Tariq Heijboer
Architecture within a Carbon Budget.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-79-3
Softcover, 192 pages, 195 x 275 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 29,90
AgriValley
Artist & Graphic design: Mirte van Duppen
Various authors
AgriValley is a study of Dutch agriculture in which artist Mirte van Duppen gives an insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the agricultural sector.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-82-3
Softcover, 176 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
Touch
Artist: Caren van Herwaarden
Graphic Design: Ruud Willems
Various authors
In search of finding the meaning of compassion, humanity, physicality, and erotica. Works on paper and watercolours, drawings, collages, and sculptures.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-75-5
Softcover, 144 pages, 240 x 280 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 35,00
Blind Date with the Future
Artists: Stefanie Zoche / Haubitz + Zoche
Graphic Design: COCCU Studio
Gives a comprehensive overview of Haubitz + Zoche's projects on ecological issues such as sea level rise or dwindling resources that they have realised between 2006 and 2022.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-73-1
Softcover, 240 pages, 220 x 275 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 39,95
Mother's Milk
Artist: Marie Ilse Bourlanges
Graphic Design: Alix Chauvet
Assembling the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight by bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-74-8
Hardcover, 248 pages, 155 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 35,00
Displace
Artist: Elena Khurtova
Graphic Design: Tariq Heijboer
Displace explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity, addressing the materiality of soil through an interplay of imagery, text and tactility by experimenting with soil as pigment for a duo-colour offset printed book.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-80-9
Softcover, 96 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome
By: Antonis Pittas
Editors: Lisa Bakker, Eleonoor Jap Sam
Graphic Design: Alex Farrar
The publication jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome discusses the failure, collapse and historicization of the modernist ideals espoused by Theo van Doesburg, set against the current political backdrop of mass protest.
978-94-92852- 44-1
Hardcover, 768 pages, 100 x 200 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 37,00
Solar Futures
By: Marjan van Aubel
Graphic Design: SJG
How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun. By solar designer Marjan van Aubel. Design using everyday integrated aesthetic solutions.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-65-6
Softcover, 288 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 39,95
Tools for Collective Learning (ENG)
Various authors and contributors
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
This publication is part of Kunstinstituut Melly's Name Change Initiative.
English Edition
ISBN: 978-94-92852-69-4
Softcover, 288 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 19,50
Tools voor Collectief Leren (NL)
Various authors and contributors
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
This publication is part of Kunstinstituut Melly's Name Change Initiative.
Dutch Edition
ISBN: 978-94-92852-70-0
Softcover, 288 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 19,50
Verboden Landschap
By: Hans Jungerius
Graphic Design: since 1416 - creative studio
The zero issue of the OtherGuides series, Verboden Landschap guides the reader along these traces that tell the extraordinary story of the military landscape that lies hidden silently in the woods of Arnhem.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-59-5
Softcover, 248 pages, 148 x 210 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 24,50
111 INCEPTION
Anna Bates
Design by Studio Joost Grootens
What is inspiration? What inspires you? 111 INCEPTION is a chain of inspiration, which involves 111 architects from around the world.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-47-2
Softcover, 296 pages, 125 x 190 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 25,00
Resilient Estate Landscapes Gelderland Past | Present | Future
Steffen Nijhuis, Paul Thissen, Elyze Storms-Smeets
Graphic Design: Thomas Soete
Resilient Estate Landscapes Gelderland proffers a landscape-based regional approach to understanding, planning and designing heritage estate landscapes.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-54-0
Hardcover, 208 pages, 240 x 300 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 39,50
The Joy of Daily Drawing
By: Bob Custers
Graphic Design: Studio Renate Boere
In a handmade sketch you directly open up the reservoir of memories, ideas, images and fantasies, and space for research and exploration emerges.
ISBN 978-94-92852-61-8
Softcover, 604 pages, 138 x 184 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 24,50
The Civic Empowerment Toolbox - Action Design for Urban Futures
By: Ben Schouten
Graphic Design: WVDV
The Civic Empowerment Toolbox focuses on the design of active citizenship and citizen participation, offering many examples as well as opportunities to kickstart your own initiative. Boxset with six cahiers.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-71-1
Boxset, 320 pages, 165 x 235 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 30,00
Beginning in the Middle
Elsbeth Dekker & Robbie Schweiger eds.
Graphic Design: Tariq Heijboer
Conversations on the Post-Soviet. Contributions by various artists.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-72-4
Softcover, 192 pages, 100 x 170 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 24,50
Labyrinth
Artist: Ton Kraayeveld
Graphic Design: Studio Renate Boere
Labyrinth is an exploration into Ton Kraayeveld's 'network in space and time'.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-62-5
Softcover, 304 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 32,00
How to Make a Sculpture Move
Artist: Ruta Butkute
Text: Emily Kocken
Graphic Design: Eva van der Schans
In this book, vital elements of Ruta Butkute's latest work are brought together to create an experience that manifests the artist's unique take on sculpture and performativity.
978-94-92852-58-8
Softcover, 112 pages, 210 x 275 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 30,00
Doorways - Michiel Kluiters
Artist: Michiel Kluiters
Text: Maria Barnas, Steven Humblet
Graphic Design: Mainstudio
With Doorways, visual artist Michiel Kluiters investigates how space (or spatiality) works in photography and how it can become an instrument for narration.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-60-1
Softcover, 128 pages, 240 x 320 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 32,00
Mirages - Lieven Hendriks
Mirages documents the work by Dutch artist Lieven Hendriks over a period of twenty years. In his paintings he gives shape to abstract concepts such as hope, comfort and desire. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the artist’s paintings with texts from Dominic van den Boogerd, Rianne Groen and an interview by Menno Vuister.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-66-3
Softcover, 152 pages, 220 x 300 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 30,00
Anton Rooskens - Beyond Cobra | Voorbij Cobra
Artist: Anton Rooskens
Text: Marguerite Tuijn, Eliane Odding
Graphic Design: Thomas Soete
Provides a broad insight into the artist’s work and life, with more than a hundred illustrations of paintings and other works.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-85-4
Hardcover, 208 pages, 215 x 275 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 39,95
GABO - Portrait of a Sculpture | Portret van een sculptuur
Graphic Design: 75B
GABO: Portrait of a Sculpture focuses on one artwork: Gabo’s sculpture for department store De Bijenkorf on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam, examining the sculpture from many angles.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-27-4
Hardcover, 224 pages, 207 x 265 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 30,00
As Above, So Below 🙃
Artist: Ruchama Noorda
Graphic Design: Sabine Verschueren
As Above, So Below 🙃 documents the work made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-56-4
Hardcover, 252 pages, 230 x 295 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 39,95
RAABJERG - Rune Peitersen
Art & Text: Rune Peitersen
Graphic Design: Mainstudio
RAABJERG takes outset in the landscape of northern Jutland (Denmark), changed due to climatological changes and human resource extraction, and the following attempts at ‘restoring’ and ‘reestablishing’ a ‘natural’ landscape.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-57-1
Softcover, 288 pages, 220 x 285 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 30,00
Rollable Ramblings
Artist: Koen Taselaar
Graphic Design: Team Thursday
Rollable Ramblings is the first comprehensive publication on the textile work of Koen Taselaar (Rotterdam, 1986), consisting of reproductions and zoom-ins of his tapestries.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-48-9
Softcover, 125 pages, 240 x 320 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 30,00
Prix de Rome 2021 - Beeldende Kunst | Visual Arts
Graphic Design: Lesley Moore
Prix de Rome 2021 - Beeldende Kunst | Visual Arts accompanies the eponymous exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, centred around the work of Mercedes Azpilicueta, Alexis Blake, Silvia Martes and Coralie Vogelaar.
ISBN: 978-94-92852- 45-8
Softcover, 152 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 202, Retail Price: € 15,00
Prix de Rome 2022 - Architecture | Architectuur
Graphic Design: Lesley Moore
The theme of the Prix de Rome 2022 - Architecture | Architectuur is Healing Sites.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-64-9
Softcover, 156 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 15,00
Celebrating Patterns
Artist: Christie van der Haak
Graphic Design: Studio Renate Boere
A collection of patterns by Dutch designer and visual artist Christie van der Haak. Fabrics that can function as autonomous artworks, but can also be used as upholstery, wall coverings and tablecloths.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-52-6
Softcover, 288 pages, 312 x 243 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 30,00
Repairing Earthquake Project 2011-2021
Art & Text: Nishiko
Graphic Design: Janneke Hendriks, Sepus Noordmans
Repairing Earthquake Project 2011-2021 examines the dynamics of nature, human endurance, and sympathy, following the art project dealing with an extensive natural disaster – the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-12-0
Softcover, 272 pages, 160 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 30,00
What Speaks To Us
Artist: Arjan van Helmond
Graphic Design: PutGootink
What speaks to us - Fragments in time, space and painting shows the oeuvre of visual artist Arjan van Helmond and offers a broad overview of his work from the past 12 years.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-55-7
Softcover, 192 pages, 233 x 280 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 35,00
A Fair Share of Utopia
Various contributors
Graphic Design: Michiel Niesen
‘If you would die today and reincarnate one generation later, in what world would you want to be born, regardless of where or who you are?’ This is the question posed to eleven writers and ten visual artists,
ISBN: 978-94-92852-34-2
Softcover, 96 pages, 156 x 220 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 15,00
Shanghaipark
Martine Bakker, Eleonoor Jap Sam, Hans van Lunteren, Bettina van Santen eds.
Graphic design: Caroline de Lint
Experimentally rooted in the everyday. Sjanghaipark was a placemaking project avant la letter and the park was climate friendly before this became a matter of public policy.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-43-4
Softcover, 148 pages, 204 x 270 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 24,50
Everyday until Antwerp
Art & Text: Jacqueline Schoemaker
Graphic Design: Paul Gangloff
Every Day until Antwerp is a literary travel journey about a walking trip from Amsterdam to Antwerp, along the railway line of the old Benelux train that by now has ceased to be.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-25-0
Softcover, 160 pages, 110 x 176 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 15,00
Global Housing: Dwelling in Addis Ababa
Dick van Gameren, Nelson Mota eds.
Design by Studio Joost Grootens
Global Housing: Dwelling in Addis Ababa brings together essays and architectural projects that discuss housing as a key component in the social and urban development of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-20-5
Softcover, 208 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 27,50
No Seat At The Table
Artists: Rajab Eryigit, Bob Mollema, Erhan Muratoglu, Jasmijn de Nood
Text: Minem Sezgin
Graphic Design: Vincent de Boer
No Seat At The Table is a fictional graphic novel about the local and global influences of gentrification on citizens in Turkish and Dutch cities.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-32-8
Hardcover, 120 pages, 241 x 290 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 25,00
The World as Project
Author: Friedrich von Borries
Graphic design: Ingo Offermanns
A Political Theory of Design.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-23-6
Softcover, 48 pages, 110 x 303 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 15,00
This Naked Incident
By: Alexander van der Heide & Sander Coers
Graphic Design: HOAX
How much room is there, in society, to be masculine in different ways than the masculine construct dictates?
ISBN: 978-94-92852- 50-2
Softcover, 124 pages, 225 x 260 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 30,00
The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project
By: Maurice Bogaert
Graphic Design: Mainstudio
The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project is a book about the parallel lives of Walter Benjamin and Albert Speer and the quest to bring these two lives together.
ISBN: 978-94-92852-24-3
Softcover, 224 pages, 160 x 232 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 30,00
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