Velvet Rails explores the renewed appeal of long-distance train journeys as slow, considered travel. Across carefully selected routes, the book looks at how design, comfort, service, and hospitality shape our experience of movement and time. Through photography and essays, trains are seen as moving rooms and cultural spaces—places of attention, ritual, and atmosphere, where travel itself becomes the destination.

Book publishing is actively and constantly reimagined by Gestalten. An extensive range of titles that not only enriches the reader's life, but also promotes ongoing engagement with the surrounding creative landscape.

Gestalten’s origin story began with a focus on the aesthetic, particularly that of graphic design and, over the last two decades, the scope of both its content and its expertise has widened. 

Today, using a myriad of observations of culture, people, art, and other intimate, inspirational informants, Gestalten documents and anticipates vital movements in architecture, visual culture, design & fashion, escapism, food & beverages, travel, and contemporary art.