Esquire turns us onto this new “cookbook” that bounces two our favorite subjects together: food and music. The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music not only features recipes and essays on food and your favorite chef’s music playlists, it features much of this information performed and verbalized word for word by the band, One Ring Zero, on CD. That’s an interesting twist on it all.

Featured chefs in the The Recipe Project include: Mario Batali, John Besh, David Chang, Tom Colicchio, Chris Cosentino, Mark Kurlansky, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Andrea Reusing, Aaron Sanchez, and Michael Symon. Available now from Amazon.

Art historian, lecturer and Vogue legend Rosamond Bernier is the subject of this limited edition box set published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and produced by Yoox. Her time as features editor saw her befriend the greats including Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Miró and Ernst. A dinner party list to be reckoned with. A woman of incredible style, she soon added Coco Chanel and Cristóbal Balenciaga to her list of mates in high places and would go on to collect designs from some of the greats in an impressive archive. A regular at the Met in NY, she gave over 200 lectures, all of which would sell out months in advance. At 95 years old she releases ‘Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir’, this special volume on sale at Yoox is numbered, signed and includes artwork by Matisse and Ernst from her personal collection.

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One of France’s finest, Fernand Léger is the subject this soon to be released heavy-weight coffee table book, Fernand Leger: A Survey of Iconic Works. An artist who covered a range of mediums, sculpture, stained glass and film to name but a few, his geometric, bright and bold designs are instantly recognisable. Limited edition, 140 pages with 80 illustrations, each image is layered separately onto the page and the entire volume is hand-bound, the kind of quality you’d expect from Assouline.

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Photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho have combined their sizable talents to create Heroes & Villains, a diverse series of portraits of some of art and street cultures most interesting characters including Gabrielle Bell, Saber One and David Choe. Award winning photographer Tatiana made her name in large scale commercial campaigns for the likes of Sony and HBO as well as publications including GQ, Nylon and Time. Roman has worked for big hitters such as New Line Cinema and Paramount and teaches photography in California. Plenty of incredible sets and moody looks to camera, more over at Zero+ Publishing. Available from Amazon.

Hi-tech winter gear fans, Cabourn parka owners, thermal collectors, expedition history buffs – this one’s for you. The famous Terra Nova expedition was one of bravery and tragedy. Assouline brings us this collection of photographs, letters and diary entries from Robert F. Scott and his team, introduced with forwards and commentary by HRH Princess Anne and Prince Albert of Monaco. Hand-bound with an embossed cover, this is a sizable collectors piece measuring 24 inches high, more coffee table than coffee table book. Published by Assouline.

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The latest from the Espace Culrurel LV. “Since its inauguration, the Espace culturel Louis Vuitton has produced and exhibited the work of one hundred and fifty visual artists, architects, designers, photographers, video artists and theatre designers with the aim of promoting creativity and contemporary art to an eclectic audience.”

Two pieces of good news. Firstly, Gerhard Richter just opened at the Tate Modern. Second, one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of his work is on its way in the form of this image heavy tome, Panorama: A Retrospective, published by D.A.P and Tate. Covering sculpture, paintings, photographs, glass work, sketches…this is the first to span his entire career in such pain-staking detail, taking in the vast range of this prolific and inventive artist’s work. Featuring unseen pieces, recent work, unpublished interviews and photographs, this expansive book is a must for any fans one of Germany’s greatest artists. Available from Artbook and Amazon.

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Our friends at Cool Hunting turn us onto this new book, Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings, that argues for a different way of living. Inside, you will find more than 40 examples of modern, innovative, takes on small-size dwellings for a world where space is a clear premium. Nano House is in some way a study into the actual human needs through the exploration of small quarters that are flexible and efficient. Out October 14 from Thames & Hudson. Available from Amazon.

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While we usually would share the cover of a new book that has us talking, these internal photographs from The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria, out now on Phaidon, really helps outline the story inside this cookbook. Those looking for a historical, comprehensive look inside of Adria’s incredibly famous El Bulli restaurant will need to wait a bit longer. The Family Meal is very focused on showcasing more than 100 dishes prepared and inspired by the very meals eaten by El Bulli staff daily before service began.

As Adria’s first cookbook, The Family Meal offers easy to prepare dishes for home dining –  using affordable ingredients available in almost any supermarket. An absolute treat of a book that shows us all that great food can be had inside your own home. Available now from Amazon.

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Phaidon are set to release this fascinating peek into the life and career of arguably one of the greatest directors of all time with Scorsese on Scorsese. Spanning his work from those early short films to his box office hits, this is a personal look behind the scenes at Scorsese’s processes through interviews with close friend Michael Henry Wilson. Lot’s of great images and plenty of opportunities for you to shout “You talkin’ to me?” and “What do you mean I’m funny?.” Available from Amazon.

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