Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
$37.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future ...Show more
Luigi Ghirri - Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi Di Cartone) by Luigi Ghirri
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A handsome facsimile of conceptualist Luigi Ghirri's poetic narrative of 1970s pop culture Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-92) made Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone) during his travels around Europe, coining the term "sentimental geography" to describe his unique artistic approach of ex ...Show more
Albertus - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and the chosen look for David Bowie, Coldplay, Star Wars and London street signs, Albertus is as as warmly enticing on film posters as it is on memorial plaques ...Show more
Wear Next: Fashioning the Future by Clare Press
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
What will you be wearing tomorrow? Will your jacket have been grown in a lab, or your jeans coloured using bacteria? Will we still have shops? What does the future of work look like for the people who make our garments? The current fashion system is wasteful, environmentally harmful and exploitative. An ...Show more
Retro: A Guide to Mid-twentieth Century Design by Adrian Franklin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Retro may be cool, but why are we now in the middle of a love affair with objects and designs from the mid-twentieth century? What unique qualities do they share that make them so special now? Using one of the most spectacular displays of retro objects ever assembled, and covering all the bases furnitur ...Show more
Art of the Devil: An Illustrated History by Demetrio Paparoni
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The first complete illustrated book on the devil in art history.The Art of the Devil is a beautiful book showcasing the past and present portrayal of the Evil One in Western and Eastern art. This richly illustrated account looks at the history, symbols, and manifestations of the devil in the collective ...Show more
Walter Gropius - Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In her majestic biography of Walter Gropius, charismatic founder of the Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy argues that his visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today. Mention the Bauhaus and iconic objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer cha ...Show more
Flower Hunter Ellis Rowan by FULLERTON Patricia
$9.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Ellis Rowan - painter, naturalist, writer and explorer - was an extraordinary woman for her era. Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed, for almost 50 years she travelled to the remote parts of Australia, India, Europe, America and New Guinea in pursuit of exotic flowers and wildlife to paint. O ...Show more
The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in na ...Show more
Fashioning Fabrics by Sandy Black
$79.50 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Investigates the various ways in which textiles are used by fashion designers, focusing on those for whom textiles are a central part of their practice. This book explores the experimental, the beautiful and the extravagant in textile and fashion design. It traces the history of the innovations and pass ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A revised and updated edition of the bestseller from Virgin founder Richard Branson. Already a great read---fascinatingly mixing autobiography and business how-to---the book is now right up to the moment, with the latest bold moves from this irrepressible, charismatic entrepreneur and his rule-breaking, ...Show more
Liberty & Co in the Fifties & Sixties by BURUMA Anna
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Over the years since its inception in 1875 as the Oriental Emporium, Liberty's has both been at the forefront of fashion and the decorative arts and has sat comfortably riding on its waves. Its history is at the heart of its image to the outside world.