Art, Architecture & Design

In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art,...

The geometric foundations, forms and patterns in today's architecture, design and decorative arts have been deeply influenced by past cultures. From humankind's first path-like doodles on cave walls through to the higher abstractions developed to make...

Which are the oldest museums in the world? What is a cabinet of curiosities? Who haunts Hampton Court? What is on the FBI's list of stolen art? 'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institutions...

Ken Currie: Paintings and Writings provides a unique insight into the thought-world of Ken Currie's challenging and enigmatic art. For over four decades Currie has created some of the most confrontational and intriguing paintings in the contemporary art...

Computers can calculate perspective angles and create a drawing for us, but the spontaneity of mark making, the tactile quality of a writing surface, the weight of a drawing instrument, and the immediacy of the human touch are sensations that keep...

Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30 June 1894, this combined suspension and bascule bridge was designed by architect Sir Horace Jones and engineer Sir John Wolfe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558443938Author Frederick SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506722740Author Joaquim Dos SantosFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203250Author Hugh JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 2010g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040388Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In...

For 28 years the world-renowned interior designer Bunny Williams has been involved in a passionate love affair with an18th-century New England manor house that she found in sad repair. From the moment she walked up the driveway and her palms began to...

In 2013, Lilitt Bollinger founded her own office in Nuglar near Basel. Since then, the office has produced a number of refined conversions that are entirely developed out of the atmosphere of the building and location. The pronounced affinity to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554430Author Guido RebecchiniFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm)...

The Labyrinth is filled with beautiful portraits of mighty creatures from the world of myths and legends, just waiting to be brought back to life in glorious colour. From colouring the wondrous wings of a harpy, to the glistening snakes of gorgon's...

Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has turned many of us into either amateur or professional image producers. But without a basic understanding...

The Alps are Europe's biggest and greatest mountain range. Formed millions of years ago, they became a popular destination for travelers in the late eighteenth century - first for adventurers and explorers, then for artists and writers, and finally for...

Lorenzo de' Medici: The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it from the shifting mire of Italian politics.Fra Girolamo Savonarola: An unprepossessing provincial monk whose...

Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to the British war effort during the Second World War. Exhorted to 'Grow More Food', then to 'Dig for Victory',...

How to plan, carve and paint your personal totem pole. This well-illustrated guidebook includes the history of totem-pole carving and its West Coast native traditions, techniques and patterns. It examines the historic and modern tools involved. And it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559828Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

From its days as the city of 'Jute, Jam and Journalism', through postindustrial decline and late twentieth-century regeneration, to its current status as the UK's first UNESCO City of Design for its contributions to various diverse fields including...

A sweeping selection of Donald Judd's iconic and ambitious works alongside a diverse collection of newly commissioned writings. "One of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, Donald Judd rigorously experimented with color, form,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080421944Author Jean-Louis CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1400g

Draw the cutest unicorn pictures for a whole year and never be bored again! This fun book for the young, and young at heart, covers the widest range of unicorn designs ever - 365 of them no less! In the magical universe all animals can have wings,...

Bus garages, or depots if that is your preferred nomenclature, come in all shapes and sizes and have their origins in the tram depots that were established by the various tramway companies of the pre-electrification era. Tram depots were originally built...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701782Author Vernon LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 120g

In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner * Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida * Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton * Designed the exquisite...

Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media,...

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner...

The history of the West Country has left a rich legacy of castles and other fortifications throughout its landscape, built wherever power and wealth needed to be displayed, strategic points controlled or territory and local populations defended. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281506Author Egon SchieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)...

Norman Rockwell's son, Tom, has put together the absolute finest collection of his father's bounteous body of work, illustrations that bespeak the golden glow of pre- and post-WWII Americana. Rockwell senior, who said he depicted life "as I would like it...

Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country's architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist...

Explore Frank Walter's relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. "Nothing seems to be reworked-it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262019842Author Anthony DunneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm

'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing. It is also an extended invitation to wonder, to pleasure'How far have we come in our understanding of the world around us? In this...

'Packed with absorbing detail and brilliant insights ... I was gripped from the first paragraph.' - Alison Weir No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII - famous for his six marriages, for dissolving the monasteries and for the ruthless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156167734Author Professor Quentin BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873120Author Anne-Marie O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)...