Cultural Union Magazine Launches Luxury Book Imprint
London-based Cultural Union, under founder and editor Peter Martin, is expanding beyond its acclaimed digital and editorial output with a luxury book imprint. The move positions the title to publish collectible, well-made volumes that celebrate exceptional projects and the makers behind them across global architecture and design.
From Digital Insights to Collectible Editions
The imprint responds to a desire for longer-form, permanent records that photography and long-form essays can only achieve in print. While Cultural Union will continue to publish timely digital features, the new books will offer extended narratives, higher resolution imagery and material craftsmanship that lift stories from the transient to the archival.
A New Perspective on Global Design
Planned titles will foreground extraordinary buildings, interior commissions and the practices that realise them. Expect limited run editions, fine paper, considered typography and production values aimed at collectors, studios and institutions. The editorial approach reflects Peter Martin’s interest in celebrating rigorous design thinking together with the makers, producing books that serve both as reference and as pieces to live with.
Why Physical Matters in a Digital Age
For architects, designers and collectors, a tangible volume provides scale, colour fidelity and a tactility that screens cannot replicate. Luxury print editions act as durable archives of cultural work and as objects that anchor a practice’s legacy. They also offer a complementary revenue and audience strategy for publishers operating in a visually driven sector.
For the London design community and international readers who follow Cultural Union, the imprint signals a renewed investment in craft, curation and permanence. In an era of ephemeral online content, these books set out to be enduring visual records that respect both subject and reader.
