Helmut Newton was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women. He died at the age of 83 on 23 January 2004 in Los Angeles in a car accident.  “SUMO” is the final Newton’s aim. All his works are collected in this book. “SUMO” is a truly unique publication. “SUMO”, edited by June Newton, features a wide selection of over 400 pictures, most of which are published for the first time, covering every aspect of Newton’s outstanding career in photography: from his stunning fashion photographs, which pointed the way for generations of photographers, to his nudes and celebrity portraits. In defiance of the much-loved Japanese discipline that inspired the title of this colossal work, there is no need for it’s proud owner to wrestle with “SUMO”. Bringing an entirely new slant to the concept of the coffee-table book, “SUMO” is a suitably enormous homage to 79-year-old Helmut Newton, the master of subversive and erotic photography. “I wanted to build a monument to the most important photographer of the 20th century,” comments Benedikt Taschen, the publisher behind “SUMO”. He delivers. Weighing over 65 pounds, measuring more than two feet long, and breaking any previous size record in book publishing, “SUMO” contains 480 pages of every aspect of Newton’s outstanding career in photography. Each copy of the book is bound by hand and numbered and signed by the artist. In order to showcase this colossus, the book is packaged with its own stand designed by Philippe Starck. This outsized volume contains the body of Newton’s controversial yet iconographic work, documenting fashion, fetishism, and above all an overriding obsession with voyeurism that can make the viewer feel complicit or uneasy by turns. Newton himself describes “SUMO” as “terrifying and outrageous. I don’t even look at it as a book…. I look at it as an object.”

designed his first house in 1988. Since that time he has designed 13 houses, taught local builders and perfected his skills. Houses designed by Erpicum are sold in the market very seldom. Although, there are some exceptions. For example, now he sells one of his houses. The price is about 2 million euro, and that’s not the final price.

An architecture project is worked out while answering a multitude of constraints; it acts to create an environment favourable with human activity. Each one of these activities dictates a quite precise schedule of conditions which vary from project to project. This is Bruno Erpicum’s architectural practice’s maxim and their thoroughness and accuracy shine through every project they have undertaken from some of their founding projects to their more contemporary designs. Bruno Erpicum: 1983-2008 aims to show the twenty-five years of creativity and craftsmanship from this great Belgian architect: his best seaside villas, city houses and apartments are all featured here.