Phaidon

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. It was able to achieve this as pioneers of the international co-edition and with large print-runs. Its first titles were books on literature, philosophy and history. Phaidon's legendary large-format art books first emerged in 1936 with plates on Van Gogh, Botticelli, and the French Impressionists. Phaidon is the world’s premier publisher of books on the visual arts. Phaidon believes passionately in the creative act and aim to make it exciting and understandable by all and to celebrate its greatness in everything they produce. Phaidon works collaboratively with the creative arts world’s most inspiring names to achieve the most faithful representation of, and the truest insight into, the way those artists and visionaries interact with the world around them – whatever medium they work in.