About Us
Fang Duff Kahn Publishers was founded in 2009 by Robert Kahn and his wife, Fiona Duff Kahn. (Fang is their daughter's middle name.)
The company publishes the City Secrets guidebooks created by Robert Kahn in 1999. Both City Secrets Travel and City Secrets Arts & Letters books are based on the same concept: each is a compilation of short essays written by notable contributors about overlooked or underappreciated places, movies, or books.
City Secrets guides are published by Fang Duff Kahn Publishers and distributed by Rizzoli International.
Robert Kahn AIA FAAR:
Robert Kahn is an architect and publisher.
Prior to founding his own practice in New York in 1986, he worked for James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates, in London, where he was Senior Designer for the Performing Arts Center at Cornell University. He has worked on numerous collaborations with the artist Frank Stella, most notably the Costantini Museum Competition, a private museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a museum in the Negev for Ronald Lauder.
Kahn is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and has received numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Washington University School of Architecture, and the Glassman Prize for Design Excellence from Yale University. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Metropolitan Home, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times, among many other publications. He has taught design at Columbia University, Ohio State University, and Yale University, where he held a Davenport Chair Professorship.
His clients include Haverford College, the Classic Stage Company, and Lincoln Center theaters, in addition to many individuals from the creative arts, including painter Frank Stella, actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mary-Louise Parker; playwright David Mamet; directors Wes Anderson and Nicholas Hytner; and musician Adam Duritz. He was selected by Richard Meier as one of thirty-six international architects to design a home for “Houses at Sagaponack” in Sagaponack, New York.
Kahn is also the creator and editor of the City Secrets guidebooks. The travel series includes City Secrets New York City; City Secrets London; City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy; and City Secrets Rome. The City Secrets Arts & Letters series includes City Secrets Movies: The Essential Insider’s Guide and City Secrets Books: The Essential Insider’s Guide.
Kahn is married and has one daughter. He and his family live in New York City and Shelter Island, New York.
