Gestalten

Julie Ellison's profiles of contemporary climbers — the people pushing the sport in new directions. Diverse voices, modern ethics, and climbing as culture rather than conquest.

Gestalten's photographic survey of cabins, treehouses, and hideaways around the world. Architecture as escape — each structure a small argument for simplicity and solitude.

More from Gestalten's shelter obsession — tiny hotels, micro-cabins, and weekend retreats designed to disappear into the landscape. The photographs do the talking.

Gestalten's guide to van life — the rigs, the routes, the people who traded addresses for odometers. Photography-driven, aspirational, and honest enough to include the parking lots.

Gestalten's van life compendium — the rigs, the roads, the aesthetic of living out of a vehicle. Coffee-table format, wanderlust content.

On the Run is yet another hardcover, stitch-bound delight from Berlin-based publisher Gestalten, a book that feels as good to hold as it is to read, though no one’s judging if you just want to look at the photos. Inside are runners from a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, including profiles of Mimi Anderson, a fifty-seven-year-old mother of three who holds world records in endurance running; Justin Gallegos, the first professional athlete with cerebral palsy; and Brazil’s Ghetto Run Crew, an urban club taking back Rio de Janeiro’s dangerous streets one step at a time. Adding to the stoke are daydream-worthy descriptions of twenty-five marathons and trail runs, from Greece’s Athens Authentic Marathon to California’s Badwater 135 in Death Valley. Spanning the individual and universal in radiant images and stories, On the Run is two-hundred-and-fifty-some pages of runner’s sweet, sweet high, a celebration of how much putting one foot in front of the other can do for the human spirit.

Martijn Doolaard bicycled from Amsterdam to Singapore and photographed the journey. The images are gorgeous — the book is a visual diary of landscapes and encounters across two continents.

Gestalten's collection of extraordinary lodgings in extraordinary places — treehouses, ice hotels, desert camps, and cliff dwellings. Aspiration as architecture.

Gestalten's survey of floating architecture — houseboats, sailing vessels, and structures built on or over water. The aesthetic of life afloat.

More Gestalten shelter photography — cabins, sheds, and retreats designed to minimize the boundary between inside and outside.

Gestalten's photography of sailing — blue water, wooden hulls, and the geometry of canvas and wind.

The history and culture of women's surfing — from the Hawaiian queens to the modern shortboard era. Photography, essays, and profiles of the women who refused to sit on the beach.

A beautiful, comprehensive guide to the culture and practice of fly fishing — technique, gear, destinations, and the philosophy that makes it more than a hobby.

A photographic account of a PCT thru-hike — the landscapes rendered in large-format images that capture the scale of walking from Mexico to Canada.

A cookbook for people who cook outside — campfires, portable stoves, Dutch ovens. 120 recipes organized by meal and method, designed for actual wilderness conditions.

Long-distance trails and walks around the world, curated and photographed. The paths less traveled — not the famous thru-hikes but the ones you've never heard of.

More Gestalten shelter architecture — remote cabins, off-grid hideaways, and the buildings people construct when they want to disappear.

Gestalten on mobile architecture — vans, tiny houses, modular shelters, and the people who chose impermanence as a lifestyle.

Brooklyn to the tip of South America by motorcycle — the Pan-American Highway and everything off it. Photography-driven, with the road itself as the organizing principle.

Photography from America's great trails — the PCT, the AT, the CDT, and the trails nobody's heard of. Honan has walked more miles than most people drive.

Long-distance trails around the world, photographed and mapped. The global version of the hiking life.

Gestalten's exploration of hunting, foraging, and gathering cultures around the world. The oldest human relationship with the land, still practiced.