Art, Design, Architecture & Photography Recommendations
Pilgrimage
$59.95 – Hardback / Vintage
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: One Hundred and Eleven Years of Modern Architecture in Victoria, Australia
$99.95 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Out of print for over 60 years Victorian Modern is to be republished by the Robin Boyd Foundation in October 2011. Buy or find out more→
The Cult of LEGO
$49.95 – Hardback / No Starch Press,US
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 artist... Buy or find out more→
The Louvre: All the Paintings
$90.00 – Hardback / Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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 the... Buy or find out more→
Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
$29.95 – Paperback / Phaidon Press Ltd
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 global,... Buy or find out more→
The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture
$150.00 – Hardback / Cambridge University Press
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, and in... Buy or find out more→
The Pot Book
$59.95 – Hardback / Phaidon Press Ltd
A comprehensive overview of the history of ceramics. Buy or find out more→
Art of Australia
$125.00 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan Australia
"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-eminent... Buy or find out more→
The Complete Record Cover Collection
$32.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
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→
Warm House Cool House
$44.95 – Paperback / UNSW Press
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, illustrated by... Buy or find out more→
Sustainable House
$45.00 – Paperback / CHOICEBooks
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 your... Buy or find out more→
Nomad: Bringing Your Travels Home
$59.99 – Hardback / 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... Buy or find out more→
Another 100 of the World's Best Houses
$29.99 – Hardback / Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
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 challenging... Buy or find out more→
Spotters Guide To Urban Engineering Infrastructure And Technology In The Modern Landscape
$29.95 – Paperback / NewSouth Publishing
An illustrated field guide to the technology that keeps our cities and towns working. Buy or find out more→
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art
$59.95 – Paperback / Cambridge University Press
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. This... Buy or find out more→
MetaMAUS
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
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 the... Buy or find out more→
Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored
$37.95 – Hardback / Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
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 exciting... Buy or find out more→
John Olsen: Teeming with Life: The Complete Graphics 1955-2011
$140.00 – Hardback / Macmillan Art Publishing
Includes the artist John Olsen's etchings made since 2005. Buy or find out more→
Paula Scher Maps
$75.00 – Hardback / Princeton Architectural Press
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: Architectural Photography of John Gollings
$120.00 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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 as he... Buy or find out more→
Dressing Table The
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
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... Buy or find out more→
Make Hey While the Sun Shines
$45.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Read Pip Lincolne's guest blog post about the making of Make Hey! The crafty Pip Lincolne is back... Buy or find out more→
Permanent Revolution: Mike Brown and the Australian Avant-garde 1953-97
$49.99 – Hardback / Melbourne University 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 work.... Buy or find out more→
Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
$120.00 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
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 pairings of... Buy or find out more→
101 Things to Learn in Art School
$23.95 – Hardback / MIT Press Ltd
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→
82: Modern Style to Create at Home
$34.99 – Paperback / 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. This richly... Buy or find out more→
Rare and Curious: The Secret History of Governor Macquarie's Collectors' Chest
$79.99 – Hardback / Melbourne University 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... Buy or find out more→
Graphic Design Australian Style Manual
$75.95 – Paperback / McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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, giving... Buy or find out more→
Artists of the Western Desert: Portraits 2006-11
$79.95 – Paperback / Macmillan Art 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 of the... Buy or find out more→
How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aborginal Art 19080-2006
$49.95 – Paperback / Power Institute of 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: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$35.95 – Paperback / Yale University Press
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... Buy or find out more→
Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting
$79.95 – Hardback / Phaidon Press Ltd
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, others... Buy or find out more→
The New Artisans: Handmade Designs for Contemporary Living
$49.95 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
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... Buy or find out more→
Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography
$49.95 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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 unique... Buy or find out more→
Art in the Streets
$55.00 – Paperback / Rizzoli International Publications
Accompanies the exhibition Art in the streets, organized by Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman, and Aaron Rose and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 17 April-8 August 2011, and... Buy or find out more→
Grandiflora Celebrations
$59.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Flowers provide that special something that can take an event into the realms of the extraordinary. The author has helped create some of our most spectacular celebrations, from weddings, to fashion shows, gala dinners and the... Buy or find out more→
Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
$53.95 – Paperback / 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 sections,... Buy or find out more→
Cut & Paste: 21st-Century Collage
$39.95 – Hardback / Laurence King Publishing
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 returned... Buy or find out more→
Fashion Bites: A Collection of Fashion's Cattiest Quotes
$14.95 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
"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 person... Buy or find out more→
It's Lonely in the Modern World
$24.95 – Paperback / Chronicle Books
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... Buy or find out more→
Design Sponge At Home
$49.95 – Hardback / Artisan
The debut book by one of the web's most beloved and popular design bloggers, Grace Bonney of DESIGN*SPONGE. The book includes a tour of 75 real-life interiors, big and small. There are clear instructions for 100 DIY projects for... Buy or find out more→
My faraway one: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
$49.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
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, and... Buy or find out more→
Rings
$29.99 – Hardback / V & A Publishing
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 band or... Buy or find out more→
Beyond Shelter: Architecture for Crisis
$37.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
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 that... Buy or find out more→
As Little Design As Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams
$120.00 – Hardback / Phaidon Press Ltd
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, and how... Buy or find out more→
Stylish Dress Book Wear With Freedom
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Stylish Dress Book contains 26 projects for beautiful dresses and blouses. Elegant and loose-fitting, the pieces in this book are designed to be worn in any season and are suitable for women of all ages. Buy or find out more→
The Way We Live: In the Country
$39.95 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
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... Buy or find out more→
Diener & Diener
$99.95 – Hardback / Phaidon Press Ltd
The only available monograph on the internationally acclaimed architecture practice of Diener & Diener. Features Diener & Diener's best-known projects, such as the Novartis Forum 3 in Basel and the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, as well... Buy or find out more→
Patricia Piccinini
$75.00 – Hardback / Art Gallery of South Australia
Surveys the career of one of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary artists. This is the first major book on Piccinini and is designed to reflect the scale and detail of her varied practice. Buy or find out more→
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature
$33.95 – Hardback / 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 Bible... Buy or find out more→
Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage
$85.00 – Hardback / 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... Buy or find out more→