Art, Design, Architecture & Photography Recommendations
Pilgrimage
$69.95$59.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in... Buy or find out more →
Victorian Modern
$99.95 – Paperback book / Robin Boyd Foundation
Robin Boyd published his first book ‘Victorian Modern: 111 years of modern architecture in Victoria’ in 1947. Just prior to his death in 1971 Robin was in discussions with publishers to arrange a new edition of this impo... Buy or find out more →
The Cult Of Lego
$49.95 – Trade paperback /
LEGO is much more than just a toyit's a way of life. The Cult of LEGO takes you on a thrilling illustrated tour of the LEGO community and its creations. You'll meet LEGO fans from all walks of life, like professional art... Buy or find out more →
The Louvre: All The Paintings
$90.00 – Hardcover book / Black Dog & Levanthal
An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the very first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular and renowned museum is available in one stunning book. All 2,954 paintings on display in... Buy or find out more →
Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years In 200 Pivotal Artworks
$89.95 – Hardcover book /
Rising from the ashes of modernism and encompassing a staggering diversity of new forms, the twenty-five-year period beginning in 1986 is one of the most vibrant episodes in the history of art. It is also one of the leas... Buy or find out more →
The Phaidon Atlas Of 21st Century World Architecture: Travel Edition
$29.95 – Paperback book /
A condensed version of the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or business traveller. Organized geographically and illustrated with gl... Buy or find out more →
The Encyclopedia Of Australian Architecture
$150.00 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Behind the iconic images of Australian homesteads, beach houses and the billowing sails of the Sydney Opera House lies a rich and enthralling history of how Australians have responded to natural and urban environments, a... Buy or find out more →
The Pot Book
$59.95 – Hardcover book /
The history of ceramic art is ingrained in the history of mankind. Clay is one of the very first materials 'invented' by man. An essential part of our lives it has been moulded, thrown, glazed, decorated and fired for ov... Buy or find out more →
The Art Museum
$225.00 – Hardcover book /
The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,500 works of art. It is the most ... Buy or find out more →
Art Of Australia: Volume One
$125.00$0.00 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
"I have on my desk the printer's proof of Art of Australia. It is quite simply the most beautiful book I've ever been involved with. The text is marvellous - fascinating, compelling and definitive from Australia's pre-em... Buy or find out more →
Casa Bella: Luxury
$120.00 – Hardcover book /
The book contains a well-reasoned selection of houses from all over the world. Some of these exhale sensations of carefully-considered functionality, like the modern apartments in Italy, others invite you to silent medit... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Record Cover Collection
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist... Buy or find out more →
Decade
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book /
A successor to Phaidon''s award-winning Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Suffering, Regression and Hope, Decade provides a comprehensive visual overview of the last 10 years in world history through 500 enga... Buy or find out more →
A History Of The World In 100 Objects
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Penguin
This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and th... Buy or find out more →
House: Imagining The Past Through The Collections Of The Historic Houses Trust NSW
$89.95 – Hard back / Thames And Hudson
These photographs showcase both extraordinary and everyday objects from Elizabeth Bay House, Vaucluse House, Rouse Hill House & Farm and the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection. Buy or find out more →
Warm House Cool House
$44.95 – Paperback book / Choice Books
We all want to minimise our environmental impact, but we don’t always know how. In this new edition of the bestselling Warm House Cool House, respected Australian architect Nick Hollo provides valuable advice, illustrate... Buy or find out more →
Sustainable House
$45.00 – Paperback book / Choice Books
Whether youre planning to build or renovate, whether you in live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House is the essential guide to help you achieve an environmentally friendly home. It includes advice on converting... Buy or find out more →
Nomad
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Sibella Court sees the world differently. In her latest book, the stylist and bestselling author of Etcetera and The Stylist's Guide to NYC shows us how to bring our travels home with us in the most unexpected of ways.
T... Buy or find out more →
Another 100 Of The World's Best Houses
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Images Publishing
Designed by some the world's leading architects, the homes featured in this visually spectacular title are works of art, as beautiful as they are innovative and practical. Built in some of the most inspiring and challeng... Buy or find out more →
Spotters Guide To Urban Engineering Infrastructure And Technology In The Modern Landscape
$29.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
The Spotters Guide to Urban Engineering is an exciting guide to the technology that underpins modern life. Richly illustrated, it celebrates the wonders of science, engineering and technology in the modern world. Each ch... Buy or find out more →
The Cambridge Companion To Australian Art
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
From rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art provides a wide-ranging overview of the movements, themes and media found in Australian art. ... Buy or find out more →
Meta Maus
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Uk
In the pages of METAMAUS: A Look Inside A Modern Classic, Maus (going onsale October 4), Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and th... Buy or find out more →
Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln Children
How does the flatness of Mickey Mouse's ears illuminate the 'non-specific bodies' of Klimt's Water Nymphs? Why was Vuillard's genius confined to the decade when he worked at home? What was it that made Inres such an exci... Buy or find out more →
John Olsen, Teeming With Life: The Complete Graphics 1955-2011
$130.00 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
After an extensive search to locate any of John Olsen's prints that may be missing from the first edition of this popular book, we are proud to announce a second edition which includes all of the artist's etchings made s... Buy or find out more →
Vitamin Green
$89.95 – Hardcover book /
Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best possible sourcebook of the most exciting and original green designs at all scales, from eyeg... Buy or find out more →
Gucci
$110.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs. Publis... Buy or find out more →
Christian Louboutin
$199.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Louboutin is a household name, a master craftsman (whose shoes are each handmade in France) and has a multimillion-dollar brand with boutiques around the world and an international celebrity clientele. Christian Loubouti... Buy or find out more →
The A-Z Of Visual Ideas: How To Solve Any Creative Brief
$39.95 – Paperback book / Laurence King Publishing
A source book of visual ideas and strategies for visual communication How to Solve any Creative Brief: An A Z of Ideas explains the key ideas, sources of inspiration and visual techniques that have been used throughout d... Buy or find out more →
Richard Dadd: The Artist And The Asylum
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Tate Gallery
The most brilliant young artist of his generation, Richard Dadd (1817-1886) made his name with a sequence of minutely executed fairy paintings of huge imaginative power. Following a long tour of the Middle East in the ea... Buy or find out more →
Maps
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr
In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. ... Buy or find out more →
Beautiful Ugly: The Architectural Photography Of John Gollings
$120.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
For more than 40 years John Gollings has been the photographer of choice, the go-to-guy for scores of architects. 'Beautiful Ugly' takes a look, in words, pictures and recollections, at the art of Gollings' photography a... Buy or find out more →
The Dressing Table
$45.00 – Hard back / Penguin
Glamour. Flair. Style. Panache. Call it what you will, the women who feature in this collection of interviews and essays on style from Clare Press, have it in spades.
Clare, one of Australia's most accomplished fashion w... Buy or find out more →
Make Hey
$45.00$39.95 – Spiral bound / Hardi Grant Books
Read Pip Lincolne's guest blog post about the making of Make Hey!
The crafty Pip Lincolne is back with her third book of sweet and whimsical projects.
In Make Hey While the Sun Shines, she shows you 20 gorgeous things t... Buy or find out more →
Permanent Revolution: Mike Brown And The Australiam Avant Garde
$49.99 – Hard back / Melb Univ Press
In 1960 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of wo... Buy or find out more →
Chanel: A Vocabulary Of Style
$120.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairin... Buy or find out more →
101 Things To Learn In Art School
$23.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can beanything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things toLearn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops suchlessons, striking an ... Buy or find out more →
70 80 90: Iconic Australian Houses
$79.95$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
In this follow-up to the design classic 50/60/70 Iconic Australian Houses, Karen McCartney, founding editor of interiors magazine Inside Out has compiled a selection of significant examples of Australian houses of the 19... Buy or find out more →
Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn't Normally Become A House
$70.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
This book starts on the front cover and ends on the back with no empty pages in between - to maximize available space. Which is what the book is about. With the largest houses in the world and ever-increasing suburban sp... Buy or find out more →
82 Modern Style Ideas To Create At Home
$34.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
82: Modern Style Ideas to Create at Home is the new book from the team at the highly acclaimed Inside Out magazine. Inside Out provides inspiration to its readers with practical and beautiful projects and clear advice.
T... Buy or find out more →
Bondi Republic
$49.99 – Hard back / Allen & Unwin
An international celebrity, a national icon, a tourist haven or simply home. Bondi means different things to different people.
In Bondi Republic photographer Ali Nasseri gives us a peek at the free-spirited, larger-than-... Buy or find out more →
Rare And Curious
$79.99 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Rare & Curious uncovers the secret histories of the Macquarie and Dixson Galleries collectors' chests for the first time, telling stories of ambition and failure, friendship and betrayal, intrigue and mystery.
The Ma... Buy or find out more →
Graphic Design: Australian Style Manual
$74.95 – Paperback book / Mcgraw Hill
An invaluable resource that covers the foundations of graphic design with a unique Australian/New Zealand perspective. The theory and thought behind graphic design in an Australian and New Zealand context is covered, giv... Buy or find out more →
Windows On The War: Soviet Tass Posters At Home And Abroad 1941-1945
$79.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Windows on the War is a groundbreaking publication - the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's TASS News Agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. TASS posters were created by a l... Buy or find out more →
Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art
$99.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel
Looking at art through the lens of psychedelic experience and culture, New York Times critic Ken Johnson reveals an unexpected and illuminating dimension of art since the 1960s. Art changed in a big way in the 1960s; it ... Buy or find out more →
Colour Moves: Art and Fashion
$44.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in New York City, "Colour Moves" focuses not only on abstract painter and colourist Sonia Delaunays art but also her avant-garde fashion designs fr... Buy or find out more →
Artists Of The Western Desert
$79.95 – Paperback book / Anness Publishing
This is essentially a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example... Buy or find out more →
How Aborigines Invented The Idea Of Contemporary Art: An Anthology Of Writing On Aboriginal Art 1980-2006
$49.95 – Paperback book / Power Inst Fine Arts
This is the first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring 96 authorsincluding art critics and... Buy or find out more →
100 Shoes
$29.95 – Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr
The Costume Institute/The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
In a brilliant follow-up to 100 Dresses, published in 2010, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults of its heralded permanent coll... Buy or find out more →
Vitamin P2: New Perspectives In Painting
$79.95 – Hardcover book /
The first volume of Vitamin P, published in 2002, inaugurated a vibrant period for painting. Since its publication, a whole new generation of painters has emerged, some inspired by the artists who appeared in that book, ... Buy or find out more →
Eyewitness: Brassa, Capa, Kertsz,Moholy-Nagy and Munksci
$100.00 – Hardcover book / Royal Academy Of Arts
Brassa, Capa, Kertsz, Moholy-Nagy and Munksci radically changed the face of photojournalismand art photography between the two world wars.With essays by leading authorities in the field, this stunning book examines the w... Buy or find out more →
The New Artisans: Handmade Designs For Contemporary Living
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Showcases work by designers and makers who use craft techniques rather than mass-production methods to create stylish, whimsical, covetable objects.
The practice of handmade craft has undergone a huge resurgence in recen... Buy or find out more →
Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Characters presents a selection of stories about the signs seen around a city – in this case Melbourne – that have helped to shape its character and its intriguing history.
The places, experiences and stories are uni... Buy or find out more →
Art In The Streets
$55.00 – Paperback book / Rizzoli
The catalogue for the exhibition at MoCA LA - the first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graf... Buy or find out more →
Avant Garde Art In Everyday Life: Early Twentieth Century European Modernism
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider wo... Buy or find out more →
Grandiflora Celebrations
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Lantern
'In the early, early mornings I go off in my van to shop. It's just me, the van and the sunrise, and the sky turning the colour of the flowers: rose-pink and sun-yellow, orange and red.'
Flowers provide that special some... Buy or find out more →
The Northern Renaissance: Durer To Holbein
$60.00 – Hardcover book / Royal Collections
The Northern Renaissance was a period of profound social and religious upheaval in Europe, with the rapid spread of humanism and the burgeoning Protestant Reformation sweeping the continent. Reflecting this momentous cha... Buy or find out more →
Rising Currents: Projects For The New Waterfront
$39.95 – Paperback book / Museum Of Modern Art
In the fall of 2009, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to propose solutions to the effects of climate change on New York's waterf... Buy or find out more →
Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion And Sales Material
$59.95 – Paperback book / Abrams
Created to accompany an international traveling exhibition, 'Another Book about Promotion and Sales Material' explores the work of one of the worlds most famous graphic designersStefan Sagmeister. Divided into four secti... Buy or find out more →
Burning Issues: Fire In Art And The Social Imagination
$54.95 – Hardcover book / Reaktion Books
In the Greek myth, Prometheus steals fire from Zeus and gives it as a gift to mankind. Fire, once possessed only by the gods, can now be used by lowly man. Like knowledge in the Garden of Eden, fire is at once essential ... Buy or find out more →
Out Of The West: West Australian Art 1830s-1930s
$19.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust
Out of the West is the first survey exhibition outside Western Australia to present a large sample of Western Australian art from pre-settlement until today.
It includes well known images and new discoveries. Works by es... Buy or find out more →
Cut And Paste: 21st Century Collage
$39.95 – Paperback book / Laurence King
In the digital age, the original meaning of cut and paste has been replaced with a few clicks of a mouse. This has led to a lot of derivative and unimaginative computer produced work. In response to this, artists have re... Buy or find out more →
New Vintage: The Homemade Home Beautiful Interiors And How To Projects
$45.00 – Hardcover book / New Holland Pub
A beautifully illustrated and practical guide to decorating and living in style, "New Vintage" is filled with easy projects to make your home hip and divine. Tahn Scoon is more than a stylist, she is an interior decorato... Buy or find out more →
It's Lonely In The Modern World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
The Essential Guide to Form, Function, and Ennui from the Creators of Unhappy Hipsters
True modernity requires much more than discipline, vision, and a willingness to live without upper kitchen cabinets. It's Lonely in t... Buy or find out more →
Fashion Bites
$22.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
"I don't do fashion, I am fashion". (Coco Chanel). "When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit on to my head". (Daphne Guinness). "Yes, some people say to me 'You're too skinny', but never a skinny... Buy or find out more →
London Walks!
$22.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery
London is a labyrinth of streets, a whirlpool of impressions. To appreciate it, the best method is to jump right in. This is what artist Badaude invites readers to do in "London Walks"!, a unique, hand-drawn guide to the... Buy or find out more →
Design*Sponge At Home
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Design*Sponge at Home is Bonney’s definitive guide to home décor for her fellow design sponges – those house-proud young homeowners and renters who adore soaking up design ideas and using them as inspiration to decorate ... Buy or find out more →
My Faraway One: Selected Letters Of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (18871986) and Alfred Stieglitz (18641946). Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, a... Buy or find out more →
Dale Chihuly: A Celebration
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Dale Chihuly, the hugely popular artist who works in glass, celebrates his 70th birthday in 2011. Tacoma Art Museum, in his hometown, owns more than 150 examples of his work and is mounting an exhibition in his honor. Bo... Buy or find out more →
Wolfgang Sievers
$49.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
Wolfgang Sievers (1913-2007) fled Nazi Germany to make Australia his home in 1938. His European heritage, specifically his education in Berlin, were to shape his aesthetic response to his adopted country, where he excell... Buy or find out more →
Sue Ford: Self Portrait With Camera 1960-2006
$28.00 – Paperback book /
Sue Ford was one of Australia's most important photographers and filmmakers. Her Time series (1960s-70s) is one of the key moments in late modernist Australian photography.
Ford passed away in late 2009, before her death... Buy or find out more →
Grand Designs Series 8
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Fremantle Media
The eighth series of this successful show includes one of the most challenging houses ever seen on Grand Designs a home in the middle of the Cotswolds countryside planned to be built underneath a collapsing ruined 300 ye... Buy or find out more →
Grand Designs Australia: Series 1
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Fremantle Media
Based on the highly successful UK show and hosted by award-winning architect Peter Maddison, Grand Designs Australia follows the structural, financial and emotional journey over many months of people building their own h... Buy or find out more →
Rings
$29.99 – Hardcover book / V & A Publications
Rings are perhaps the most common and yet the most evocative pieces of jewelry. Worn as a sign of love or as a fashion accessory, to mark weddings, remember the dead, or show religious faith, the unbroken circle—a plain ... Buy or find out more →
The Aesthetic Movement
$49.95 – Trade paperback /
The Aesthetic Movement swept through England in the latter part of the nineteenth century, touching every sphere of the fine and decorative arts and bringing a new freedom to all aspects of design. In architecture, the d... Buy or find out more →
Carle Andre: Things In Their Elements
$99.95 – Hardcover book /
Carl Andre (born 1935), the American minimalist artist, is perhaps best known for his grid-based floor sculptures but also for large, outdoor public artworks and small sculptures, poetry and installations. Alistair Rider... Buy or find out more →
The Wedding Dress: 300 Years Of Bridal Fashions
$69.99 – Paperback book /
This sumptuous book draws on wedding garments in the V&A's collection, photographs, letters, memoirs, newspaper accounts and genealogical research to explore the history of the wedding dress and the traditions that h... Buy or find out more →
Green Design: From Theory To Practice
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Black Dog Publishing
What is Green Design and how can we implement it? This is a pressing question that all designers must inescapably confront today. Is it simply about compliance to green accreditation systems (such as LEED or BREEAM)? Cur... Buy or find out more →
Marion Mahony Reconsidered
$58.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Chicago Pr
Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie Sc... Buy or find out more →
The Chic Geek's Fashion, Grooming & Style Guide For Men
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
The book from the men's style/fashion blog thechicgeek.co.uk - a new independent online mens style magazine for any man interested in his personal appearance. Any advice, guidance or if you simply want a bit of reassuran... Buy or find out more →
Beyond Shelter: Architecture For Crisis
$37.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap t... Buy or find out more →
As Little Design As Possible: The Work Of Dieter Rams
$120.00 – Hardcover book /
Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design' - Dieter Rams. Dieter Rams' life and work are indelibly linked to his thoughts about how people live, an... Buy or find out more →
Modern Art Deluxe Memory Game
$23.95 – Boxed set / Ammo
Classic examples of modern art by Warhol, Matisse, Mondrian, Miro, Van Gogh etc. This deluxe memory game includes a booklet with biographical information on each piece of art - name of artist, name of painting, year. Kid... Buy or find out more →
Power Platon
$39.99 – Hardcover book /
Renowned photographer Platon captures like no other the mythology and humanity of the world's political leaders. Collected here for the first time are over 100 presidents, primeministers, dictators, and revolutionaries f... Buy or find out more →
Woman War Artists
$35.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery
Women war artists have acted as witnesses to many of the major conflicts of the twentieth century, from the First and Second World Wars to the current engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some have been commissioned thro... Buy or find out more →
Where Children Sleep
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Chris Boot
Where Children Sleep presents Mollisons large format photographs of childrens bedrooms around the world including from the USA, Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and theWest Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, Chi... Buy or find out more →
Shaun Gladwell Stereo Sequences
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Acmi
Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences has been conceived and created for ACMI's unique subterranean gallery and features a series of multi-screen video works that explore concepts of duality, parallels and mirroring. Using fi... Buy or find out more →
Stylish Dress Book: Wear With Freedom
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Japanese craft books are loved the world over for their beautiful and practical design, unique aesthetic, and their clear, meticulous and educational instruction.
Translated into English for the first time, Stylish Dress... Buy or find out more →
Second Skin
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Almost from the moment of our birth, clothing acts as our second skin, yet we rarely consider where our clothes have come from and the effects they might have on the environment and ourselves. This heartfelt, practical a... Buy or find out more →
Urban Interior
$30.00 – Hardcover book /
The book Urban Interior - informal explorations, interventions and occupations has been published and will be available in good architecture and design bookstores in April 2011. Urban Interior is a book located at the th... Buy or find out more →
The Way We Live In The Country
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
From the groves and vineyards of Provence to the dry hills of California, the farms of Australia and the forests of Canada, Gilles de Chabaneix's stunning photographs capture the distinctive rural architecture, homely de... Buy or find out more →
Diener and Diener
$99.95 – Hardcover book /
Diener & Diener is an international architecture office located in Basel, Switzerland. They are known for their sophisticated, subtle take on Modernism, which combines intellectually rigorous thinking about urbanism,... Buy or find out more →
Scripts: Elegant Lettering From Design's Golden Age
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Drawn from the Golden Age of scripts, from the 19th to the mid-20th century, this is the first compilation of popular, rare and forgotten scripts from Britain, Italy, France, Germany and the USA. Filled with examples fro... Buy or find out more →
Patricia Piccinini
$75.00 – Paperback book / Art Gallery Of South Australia
Patricia Piccinini: Once upon a time... is an exquisitely illustrated and lavish coffee-table book which surveys the career of one of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary artists. It is the first major book on Piccinini ... Buy or find out more →
Patricia Piccinini Colouring Book
$12.95 – Paperback book / Art Gallery Of South Australia
This fun colouring-in book is large format, 32 pages, with full colour images printed alongside line illustrations - you could use the full colour images as posters after you've finished colouring. Buy or find out more →
William Robinson
$75.00 – Hardcover book / 37 Lower Fort Street Dawes Point Nsw 2000 Po Box 95 Annandale 2038
William Robinson is one of the nations most cherished living artists. He has transformed how we think about and see the Australian landscape, especially the rainforest, and is celebrated for his Archibald-winning portrai... Buy or find out more →
Art, Love And Life: Ethel Carrick And E Phillips Fox
$55.00 – Paperback book / Queensland Art Gal.
Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox were married for only ten years, from 1905 to 1915, but in that decade they established a legacy of artistic creativity and comradeship that has rarely been matched. This richly illustrat... Buy or find out more →
German Expressionism
$76.00 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 27-July 11, 2011. Buy or find out more →
Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide To Imaginary Airships
$33.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Steampunk - a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction cultureis a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk ... Buy or find out more →
The Vintage Modern Home
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Merrell Publishers
We'd all like a limitless budget for interior decoration, but few of us enjoy that luxury. We tend to fill our homes with a range of unrelated furnishings acquired over a number of years, and hope that somehow everything... Buy or find out more →
Book Art
$70.00 – Hardcover book /
As more and more text is being communicated via digital media, books are increasingly being used and explored in contemporary art, installation, and design. For centuries books have contained and presented the written wo... Buy or find out more →
Susan Hiller
$65.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery
This book is the most thorough and up-to-date survey of the work of Susan Hiller, one of most influential artists of her generation. Moving fluidly between film, audio, video, and projection, and drawing on found materia... Buy or find out more →
Roma
$79.99 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz
Once celebrated as a leading member of the New York School, Philip Guston (1913 1980) is now even better known for his influential, late figurative paintings. This publication reunites paintings from the Roma series, com... Buy or find out more →
The Universe In The Landscape: Landforms By Charles Jencks
$100.00 – Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln
Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for hum... Buy or find out more →
Hareng Saur Ensor And Contemporary Art
$47.50 – Hardcover book / Ludion
James Ensor (1860-1949) can without a doubt be regarded as one of the protagonists of modern art. His impact has been profound and traces of it can still be found in the work of national and international artists. This r... Buy or find out more →
Inventing The Garden
$104.95 – Hardcover book / J Paul Getty Trust P
The authors trace the evolution of the Western garden from the first plots cultivated for pleasure in the Middle East to today's diverse green spaces that challenge traditional ideas about what constitutes a garden. They... Buy or find out more →
Pulled: A Catalog Of Screen Printing
$52.50 – Paperback book / Princeton Archit. Pr
Popularized in the 1960s by Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, screen printing remains a favorite of artists due to its remarkable versatility and relatively low cost. In Pulled, best-selling author Mike Perry (Hand Job, O... Buy or find out more →
Natural History Drawings: The Complete William Farquhar Collection: Malay Peninsula 1803-1818
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Didier Millet Pte Editions
Now for the first time, all 477 drawings of the flora and fauna of the Malay Peninsula commissioned by Colonel William Farquhar during his time as British Resident and Commandant of Malacca from 1803 to 1818, are publish... Buy or find out more →
Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture Of Little Magazines 196X to 197X
$90.00 – Hardcover book / Actar
An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock o... Buy or find out more →
Papercraft 2: Design And Art With Paper
$105.00 – Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr
Paper is arguably the most influential material in human civilization. In our digital age, paper has become less important as a medium for the immediate transmission of information. As this shift occurred, designers and ... Buy or find out more →
Artists' Handmade Houses
$80.00 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Artists' Handmade Houses is a collection of 13 homes handcrafted by the finest artists and craftsmen in America, including George Nakashima, Henry Varnum Poor, Sam Maloof, Wharton Esherick, and Russel Wright. Built over ... Buy or find out more →
Girls Girls Girls In Contemporary Art
$49.95 – Paperback book / Intellect Books
Since the 1990s, female artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated, and avidly collected artworks that are driving the curre... Buy or find out more →
Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews And Digital Rants 2006-2009
$38.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press
In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoug... Buy or find out more →
Ex Libris: The Art Of Bookplates
$19.95 – Paperback book / British Museum Press
A bookplate, or Ex Libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book to express ownership. The first books were highly valuable and prestigious objects to own, hence the first bookplates usually incorporate... Buy or find out more →
My Green City: Back To Nature With Attitude And Style
$90.00 – Flexi / Die Gestalten Verlag
The last few decades were dominated by the urban, the digital, and the sleek as well as a notable esteem for speed and consumption. Today, a growing countermovement is advocating for a sustainable and more responsible wa... Buy or find out more →
The Repurposed Library: 33 Craft Projects That Give Old Books New Life
$33.95 – Hardcover book / Stewart Tabori & Cha
We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with 33 projects to make--quite literally--out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and ... Buy or find out more →
Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage
$95.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag
Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Todays artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding t... Buy or find out more →
A Taxonomy Of Office Chairs
$49.95 – Hardcover book /
Details over 180 of the most innovative office chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present, with a colour photograph, details of the designer and manufacturer, and a short text accompanying each chair. Featur... Buy or find out more →
Reflect Art And Activism In The Age Of Globalization No 8
$45.00 – Paperback book / Netherlands Archit.
"What roles can art and activism play in a post-Fordist "society of the spectacle"? Can activist art effect real change? Art & Activism in the Age of Globalizationasks these and other pressing questions facing contem... Buy or find out more →
Watercolour
$49.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery
Watercolour has long been seen as a distinctive part of the British cultural heritage, with artists from Britain widely acknowledged to be among its greatest exponents. At the same time it is a universal medium, used aro... Buy or find out more →
Emek: The Thinking Man's Poster Artist
$55.95 – Hardcover book / Gingko Press
Posterartist Emek combines 60's counterculture psychedelia and 90's postindustrial iconography to create vibrant, visually stunning illustrations for rock concert posters and protest art. The thinking man's poster artist... Buy or find out more →
Light For Visual Artists: Understanding And Using Light In Art And Design
$35.95 – Paperback book / Laurence King
Light for Visual Artists is the first book to look at the way light can be used to create realistic and fantastical effects in a wide range of visual media. It is a valuable resource for animators, digital illustrators, ... Buy or find out more →
Anish Kapoor: Turning The World Upside Down
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Walther Koenig
Over the fall of 2010, visitors to the serene and stately grounds of Kensington Gardens in London encountered four monumental stainless-steel sculptures by Anish Kapoor, carefully situated to reflect and distort in their... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Not Making: The New Artist Artisan Relationship
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Using examples from a wide range of media, Michael Petry presents the art of over 115 contemporary artists who have one thing in common: they do not make their own work. Instead, they either employ others to produce it o... Buy or find out more →
Gustav Stickley
$59.95 – Paperback book /
Australians seeking to restore or renovate their federation (which is largely a local variation on the arts and crafts style) houses, will find inspiration in this new book on Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) - the first comp... Buy or find out more →
Fifty Hats That Changed The World
$25.00 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? 'Fifty Hats That Changed the World' imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 hats and ... Buy or find out more →
Fornasetti The Complete Universe
$350.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
Combining whimsy and elegance, Fornasetti transformed everyday objects like cups, scarves, and screens into works of art, many featuring his idiosyncratic leitmotifs such as the hand, the female face, and luminescent fis... Buy or find out more →