Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, and contemporary art. Daisann McLane is the author of TASCHEN's Cheap Hotels, which won the Society of American Travel Writer's gold award for best book of 2003. She is a contributing editor and columnist for National Geographic Traveler magazine. For the last six years, she wrote the Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times Sunday travel section. Her articles on culture, food, and travel also appear in the New York Times Magazine, and the International Herald Tribune. She lives in New York City and in Hong Kong. Don Freeman is a New York-based photographer who's work appears regularly in Vogue, The World of Interiors, AD France and Architektur & Wohnen. Recently, he photographed Ted Muehling's collaborations with Nymphenburg porcelain and Stuben glass. His work appears in galleries in the United States and in the collections of the Victoria Albert Museum in London, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and others.
