Die Gestalten Verlag
The Berlin Design Publisher Behind the World's Best Coffee-Table Books.
Die Gestalten Verlag — known internationally as gestalten — is a Berlin-based publishing house founded in 1995 by Markus Hollmann-Loges, Andreas Peyerl, and Robert Klanten, and now one of the most globally recognised independent publishers in the visual-culture, design, and lifestyle category. The house operates from Mariannenstr. 9-10 in Kreuzberg, with offices in Berlin, London, New York, and Tokyo, and a distribution network that reaches every continent. Three imprints sit beneath the umbrella: gestalten (the flagship, covering architecture, design, photography, travel, food, and contemporary art), teNeues (the photography-and-illustrated-book imprint with a heritage going back to 1931 and a working relationship with BMW, Porsche, and Cartier, brought into the gestalten family in November 2024), and Little gestalten (the children's-books imprint pairing illustrated stories with serious visual culture). Sostter carries the wider catalogue with more than 230 titles, which is the largest single-brand presence on the marketplace.
The catalogue covers the categories gestalten has built its reputation on: architecture (Alpine Refuges, American Icons Volumes 1 and 2, Bespoke Interior Design Stories), travel (the full Monocle Travel Guide series — Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bangkok, Beirut, and the wider city library co-published with Tyler Brûlé's Monocle), the brand's properly authoritative car and motorcycle books (Beautiful Machines, The Italians, The Germans, Being Marc Marquez), food and cookbooks (A Taste of the World, A Year with Our Food Stories), photography and illustrated lifestyle (Boatlife, Bikepacking), interiors (Kitchen Interiors, Creative Homes, The House of Green), the menswear-canon volume The Savile Row Suit, and the Little gestalten children's range (All My Animals, Alphabetics, Animals Everywhere, Ask Me About Dinosaurs). Pricing runs from around £8.95 for poster books to £60 for the more substantial coffee-table volumes. The brand also operates a "buy a book, plant a tree" partnership, which is the small operational detail that distinguishes a publisher who has thought about its environmental footprint from one that hasn't.
For more pieces from independent makers, browse our Home Décor collection or explore our wider Gifts for Her and Gifts for Him edits. Find more for the youngest in the household via Baby & Kids, and find values-led picks via Shop by Purpose.
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The Residences and Interiors of the French Riviera
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The Sound of Letters Alphabet Book
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The Surf Atlas Iconic Waves and Surfing Hinterlands
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The Touch Sensory Space Collection
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The World of Sharks
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The World's Best Shops: Stories, People, and Your Path to Opening One
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Think Big Shop Small Contemporary Retail Design
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This Is How I Feel Today Mood Ring
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Traditional Japanese Spa and Bathing Culture Guide
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Trails and Secrets from the National Parks of the United States
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Transform Your Home Renovation Kit
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Two Years on a Bike Americas Travel Book
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Ukraine Rising Contemporary Creative Culture
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Venture Onward Book
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