New art & design books

Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism
This richly illustrated book provides the visual keys for any art lover to decode and understand the iconography, tenets, sites, and rituals of the Catholic faith through accessible analysis of its visual and material culture.
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Colour is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors
Australian interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes colour, fabric, textiles and originality in this bold guide to creating classic interiors.
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The Kitchen Dresser: In Praise of a Furniture Icon
The humble kitchen dresser is the heart of every home.
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Bacon in Moscow
The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union.
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Free Fall
A stunning art book of Quilty's most recent collection of paintings from his series 'Free Fall'
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Great Properties of Country Victoria Revised Edition
The Western District of Victoria has some of the most productive land in Australia and some of its most renowned homesteads and gardens. In this revised edition of Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker's fascinating and beautiful book,...
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Atlas of Interior Design
Explore interior-design masterpieces around the globe from the 1940s to today with this unique geographically arranged survey - discover iconic rooms in 9 continental regions in this ground-breaking survey spanning more than 50...
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
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WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture
One of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture undertaken in Australia.
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Australian Architecture: A History
A comprehensive narrative history of building and design styles in Australia, from traditional Aboriginal gunyahs; to the local interpretations of northern hemisphere trends; to the sustainable, climate sensitive and high-tech...
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Tom Ford 002
A fashion world icon, provocative American designer Tom Ford brings us his highly anticipated second book, which takes readers through the illustrious trajectory of the billion-dollar luxury empire he established in 2005.
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Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland
Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz's surprising account of her encounters with fashion over five decades
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Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia
Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, this book demonstrates the innovation and power of women's art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the...
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A New Leaf: Curated Houses Where Plants Meet Design
An interiors book showcasing how houseplants are being used in interior design.
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Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture
Miss Dior is about what a woman can be. Through the untold story of resistance hero, Catherine Dior, Picardie illuminates ideas of femininity, strength and beauty and the work of one of the world's most iconic designers.
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Banksy: Completed
There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist.
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Photography - A Feminist History
Gender rights, roles and the camera: the story of women and nonbinary photographers from the 1800s to the present day
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Old Vintage Melbourne
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years.
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Principles of Style
Sarah Andrews presents her unique take on teaching design, drawing on her experience of working in the industry and as a teacher in her school, which has reached cult status around the world.
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Never Too Small: Reimagining Small Space Living
Never Too Small features over 30 projects from award-winning designers from Australia and across the globe, who transform small apartments into tiny design marvels
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Living by the Ocean: Contemporary Houses by the Sea
An exhilarating collection of today's most remarkable homes built in awe-inspiring coastal locations around the world
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New Rural: Where to Find It and How to Create It
An interiors book for lovers of down-to-earth, beautiful and authentic rural aesthetics.
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Men In this Town: A Decade of Men’s Street Style
For anyone with a love of photography, fashion, or culture's evolution, Giuseppe Santamaria's photography collection is a must have.
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Where They Purr: Inspirational Interiors and the Cats Who Call Them Home
Where They Purr showcases twenty-eight inspirational houses and their creative interiors, along with the charismatic felines who call these places home
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Hilda: The Life of Hilda Rix Nicholas
Hilda Rix Nicholas is an icon of 20th-century Australian art. This is her story.
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Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking
The official 70th anniversary publication by Marimekko, celebrating the classic design collaborations, pattern designs and vibrant textiles from the much-loved Finnish lifestyle design house.
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Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles
An elegantly illustrated celebration of iconic Australian designer Frances Burke
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Nature Style
A step-by-step guide to plant-styling your home to promote health, happiness and wellbeing.
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Vivid: Style in Colour
Take joy from colour and the magic it can bring to the spaces we inhabit.
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Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
A feminist visual manifesto.
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Patented: 1,000 Design Patents
An unprecedented, essential field guide to more than a century of fascinating product and industrial design
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Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy.
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MELMO - Modernist Architecture in Melbourne
MELMO - Modernist Architecture in Melbourne is a comprehensive description of the development of Modernism in Melbourne and tells the story of the effects of the massive changes that occurred in rapidly growing post-war Melbourne
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Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters
A rich survey of the work of more than forty still-life artists, which presents the genre in a uniquely Australian light.
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Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art
With works from Sidney Nolan, Howard Arkley and more, this richly illustrated work illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of the art world
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Sign Painting: A practical guide to tools, materials, and techniques
This book introduces the fundamentals of sign painting, allowing readers to learn about the tools, materials and techniques needed to create painted signs.
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Design: Building on Country
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country.Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and...
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Kaffe Fassett in the Studio
World-renowned artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett provides a window into his creative process, offering readers new patterns, new ideas, and new inspiration With successes like Bold Blooms and Dreaming in Color, the latest...
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Small Business
Small Business is a companion volume to David Wadelton's Suburban Baroque -- with the focus this time on work rather than domestic spaces.
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BuildHer
For years, the BuildHer Collective have helped women around the world make renovating or building their own home a fun, rewarding and empowering experience. Led by dynamic Australian duo Kribashini Hannon and Rebeka Morgan,...
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Living in Nature: Contemporary Houses in the Natural World
An awe-inspiring collection of contemporary homes designed to foster a connection with the essential elements of landscape
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The Mirror and the Palette
A dazzlingly original and ambitious work of art history, intertwining biography and cultural history, and packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy
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A Room of Her Own
Meet the creative women who are living life on their own terms, and the unique living spaces they have designed and inhabit in this lavishly produced volume.
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Nature’s Palette
The first-ever visual expansion of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, featuring over 800 illustration references from the natural world.
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Utsuwa: Japanese Objects for Everyday Use
Celebrate the beauty and ethos of Japanese ceramics and the handmade through this intimate exploration of the makers, markets and galleries of Japan.
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Talk Art
A joyful and straightforward introduction to contemporary art from the creators of hit podcast Talk Art - actor and collector Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament.
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The Life & Love of the Forest
We are not alone: plants make up 80 per cent of the total biomass of Earth, while humans are only 0.0001 per cent.
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Ken Done: Art Design Life
Ken Done: Art Design Life documents Done's expansive art and design practice over four decades and provides a fascinating insight into the artist and his oeuvre
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Chalet Monet
Situated in a dress circle position on the slopes of the village of Les Avants, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Chalet Monet is the magnificent home of Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE and her husband, Maestro Richard...
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Kerstin Thompson Architects
For over twenty-five years, Kerstin Thompson has explored how architecture can respond to local conditions to positively shape lives and communities. This book takes readers on an immersive journey into the very heart of this...
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MMXX
MMXX tells the story of architecture in Australia in the first two decades of the 21st century.
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In Search of Elsewhere
A unique collection of previously unseen images spanning Steve McCurry's extraordinary career.
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Dronescapes
The ultimate aerial tour of creative drone photography, brimming with remarkable images from around the globe and selected from the world's leading drone photography website.
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Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Classic format
A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular styles - in a great, new, classic edition
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Living Outside: Reviving the Australian Modernist Garden
The Australian garden was born mid-20th-century, a time of postwar confidence and growing national identity. Gardens became outdoor rooms for recreation and healthy living - removing the barriers between inside and out - and bold...
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The Honest Art Dictionary
The Honest Art Dictionary is an informative and entertaining dictionary of over 300 art terms - from the peculiar to the pretentious. Authoritative and informative, humorous and informal, the book will act as a valuable primer for...
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Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now
One of the greatest living sculptors and a well-known art critic examine the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day.
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Abstract Art: A Global History
An important new survey on abstract art that takes content as a guide to form, and breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the globe.
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Life Meets Art: Inside the Homes of the World’s Most Creative People
An inspiring collection of the extraordinary private spaces of 250 of the world's most creative people, past and present
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Living In
Take a rare look inside of some of the world's most extraordinary homes, curated by leading design magazine, Openhouse.
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Robin Boyd: Late Works
Robin Boyd: Late Works unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia's most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971.
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Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice
This volume explores the way Indigenous visual art and culture operates within, and from, a structural framework that is unique to the cultural milieu.
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Adelaide Hills Gardens
The Adelaide Hills charts the evolution of gardening in Australia. And though anchored deeply in history, many of its gardens have their sights set firmly on the future.
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Streeton
With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most enduring and popular painters in Australian art.
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Home by Natural Harry
Down-to-earth recipes for a resourceful, tox-free and waste-free home life.
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Sustainable & Fashionable: Melbourne
As consumers grapple with the sustainability and ethics of mass production 80 Melbourne makers offer a gentle - and beautiful - alternative. From clothing and shoes to jewellery to hats this guide showcases the incredible talent...
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A Century of Colour in Design
An engaging and informative review of the importance and application of colour in design.
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Humans
The thrilling new book that brings people all around the world together by the creator of Humans of New York
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Van Eyck
Accompanies the biggest ever exhibition on the Flemish master Jan Van Eyck, a once-in-a-lifetime experience that makes the artist's world more tangible than ever before.
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Truth Bomb
If anyone can teach us how to pursue the life and work of an artist, it is the artists in Truth Bomb.
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Northside: A time and place
From the photographer behind Westography and Suburbia.
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Homes For Our Time (40th Anniversary Edition)
Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes.
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Living in the Mountains
A breathtaking survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountains
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Kristian Fredrikson: Designer
This book examines the life and career of acclaimed designer for the theatre, Kristian Fredrikson (1940-2005). Fredrikson worked across theatrical genres including in theatre, dance, opera, and film and television. ...
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Do You Read Me?
Lose yourself in the pages of this showcase of some of the most beautiful, innovative, and successful bookshops around the world.
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Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
The definitive anthology of writings on women in art by the late Linda Nochlin, one of the most influential and revolutionary voices in feminist art history.
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Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia’s Silver Age
'Excellent ... an A-Z of Tsarism's last, magnificent flowering of the arts' Independent on Sunday
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Philip Hughes: Painting the Ancient Land of Australia
Taking in deep varicoloured mines, broad rolling plains, vast imposing landforms and exquisite calm bays, the landscape paintings of Philip Hughes comprise a love letter to Australia.
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F**k Fast Fashion: 101 ways to change how you shop and help save the planet
An illustrated, empowering little book giving 101 practical and proactive tips on how to shop more sustainably and help save the planet
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The Garden State: Inside Victoria’s Private Gardens
Photographed across all four seasons, The Garden State showcases the finest private gardens of Victoria from all angles, highlighting the diversity of each region.
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Small but Smart: Design Solutions for Mini Homes
The challenging task to develop enthralling room concepts and convincing spatial solutions for the efficient use of small houses and living spaces.
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High Grade Living
A handbook for shifting from stressed, anxious and overwhelmed to creative, grounded and happy, using ancient knowledge applied to modern living.
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Bedtime: Inspirational Beds, Bedrooms & Boudoirs
A visual journey into the sleepiest, yet most salacious, room of the house. Celia Forner whisks you through the bedrooms of queens and emperors, designers and decorators, today's most exclusive hotels, and even the most evocative...
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Resident Dog
Stylish, architecturally designed homes and the canine heads of the house.
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The Whole Picture
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.
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The Stranger Artist
Set in the striking landscape of the East Kimberley, The Stranger Artistis a true story of life, loss and friendship that cuts to the heart of one of Australia's most celebrated art movements.
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Global Art
An essential guide to the multifarious and increasingly connected world of global art from 1900 to today.
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Makers Paris
Meet the extraordinary community of artisans and creative entrepreneurs making their mark on Paris today.
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Latin American Art Since 1900
The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world today.
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Greek and Roman Art
An introductory guide to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, capturing the passion and inspiration that fired the artists of these civilizations
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Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?
An accessible and irreverent introduction to the art and art world of today, written by two curators at the heart of the contemporary art scene.
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Flower, Exploring the World in Bloom
A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture
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Get Up & Gouache
Unleash your creativity and discover a new medium with 20 colourful gouache projects.
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Craftland Japan
A photographic voyage to the remote studios of Japan's most fascinating and ingenious contemporary craftspeople.
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Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk
The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as traditional, unchanging and...
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Kimono
A lavish survey of the Khalili Collection's world-renowned holdings of traditional Japanese kimono, from the Edo period to the 20th century.
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Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage
If you want to discover the fun of collage then this fabulous book is the perfect kit. Highly respected and successful collage artist Maria Rivans has gathered hundreds of beautiful, quirky, and downright daft images, and they're...
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Supreme
Over the past 25 years, Supreme has transformed itself from a downtown New York skate shop into an iconic global brand.
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100 Ideas that Changed Photography
This compelling book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond.
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Grayson Perry
The first book to concentrate on the early ceramic work of 'Transvestite Potter', bestselling author, broadcaster and social commentator Grayson Perry.
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Vogue The Jewellery
A must-have visual sourcebook for all those who love fashion and jewellery by the jewellery editor of British Vogue.
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Abstract Art
A succinct but thorough introduction to abstract art since 1900, revised and updated.
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Movements in Art Since 1945
A new edition of the classic introduction to art since the end of the Second World War.
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Bauhaus
An accessible history of the Bauhaus, tracing the ideas behind its conception and its highly influential teaching methods.
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Still: The Slow Home
A stunning visual journey through the homes of people from around the world who have taken steps to simplify their lives and embrace the principles of slow living.
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Costume and Fashion
A concise account of the history of fashion and costume from prehistoric times through to today.
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Petal: The World of Flowers Through an Artist’s Eye
A lush celebration of nature's most beautiful work, the flower.
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Nan Goldin: The Other Side
An expanded and updated version of Goldin's seminal The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised Introduction by the author and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented.
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Modern Mending
Bring new life to your old clothes and fabrics with this fun, easy-to-follow guide to modern mending
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