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Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design by Francis D. K. Ching 9781118458358
RRP: £45.95£40.51A new edition of Francis D.K. Ching's illustrated guide to structural design Structures are an essential element of the building process, yet one of the most difficult concepts for architects to grasp. While structural engineers do the detailed... -
Carving Animal Canes and Walking Sticks by Frank C. Russell
RRP: £13.99£8.77Carve lifelike animal-handled canes and walking sticks with power tools. Over 180 clear color photos and concise, informative text take the reader through all the tools, techniques, and individual steps, from carving the blank and setting the eyes to... -
Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries by Thomas Hall 9780415511889
RRP: £43.99£38.84**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1991. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original**Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis... -
Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind E. Krauss
RRP: £36.00£23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262610339Author Rosalind E. KraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm *... -
Berthold Lubetkin John Allan 9781837645053
RRP: £30.00£27.39This book presents a compact and compelling account of the life and work of Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990), widely regarded as the outstanding architect of his generation to practise in England. It explores the key themes, achievements and setbacks of his... -
Neville Jacobs: I'm Marc's Dog by Nicolas Newbold
£8.55The Instagram photographs of the glamorous life of Neville, social-media superstar and esteemed companion of the fashion designer Marc Jacobs. With classic images from his popular Instagram account as well as outtakes, carefully styled shots from Neville... -
Invitation to Draw: 99 Drawing Prompts to Inspire Kids Creativity by Jean Van't Hul
RRP: £17.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808513Author Jean Van't HulFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Roost BooksPublisher Roost BooksWeight(grams) 203g -
Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350 by Paul Binski
RRP: £40.00£35.99In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study... -
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams by Oliver Gabet 9780500021545
RRP: £65.00£46.27Original catalogue to the Paris exhibition and a core part of the blockbuster retrospective at the V&A. It was in 1947 that Christian Dior presented his first collection and heralded the birth of a new fashion silhouette for women. After the austerity... -
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt by Lisa Gail Collins
RRP: £23.99£18.56In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself,... -
Establishing Home by Jean Stoffer
RRP: £24.50£16.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496460417Author Jean StofferFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
Stamford in 50 Buildings: Celebrating 50 years of a Conservation Town by Christopher Davies
RRP: £15.99£10.85Stamford has a reputation for being one of England's finest stone towns. It has a happy mix of medieval and Georgian architecture that was untouched by the Industrial Revolution or later large-scale developments, so its central core has survived... -
Introducing the Medieval Fox by Paul Wackers 9781786839886
RRP: £12.99£9.70This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject - just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries,... -
New Playful Data: Graphic Design and Illustration for Infographics Shaoqiang Wang 9788417656416
RRP: £29.99£20.94New Playful Data: Graphic Design and Illustration for Infographics features brilliant and illustrative infographic projects from gifted graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and even scientists. Not only do they visualize data in a tangible and... -
Hampton Wick: Brick by Brick: East of the High Street: v. 1 by Ray Elmitt 9780957167933
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167933Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Dynamic Figure Drawing: A New Approach to Drawing the Moving Figure in Deep Space and Foreshortening by Burne Hogarth 9780823015771
RRP: £16.99£14.22Figure drawing is the most essential - and the most difficult - of all the skills for the artist to learn. In this manual Burne Hogarth introduces his own system of figure drawing, which should make it possible to visualize and accurately render the... -
The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook by Brad Schiller
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook, fourth edition, provides respected and clear coverage of the process of programming automated lighting fixtures from basic principles to advanced production preparations.This guide helps lighting programmers... -
Vaughan Oliver: Archive: 'Materials and Fragments' Tony Brook 9780995666481
RRP: £59.00£38.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995666481Author Tony BrookFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Unit EditionsPublisher Unit EditionsWeight(grams) 1330g -
Give Up Art: Collected Writings (2005-15) by Maria Fusco 9781927354254
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927354254Author Maria FuscoFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Projectile Publishing SocietyPublisher Projectile Publishing SocietyWeight(grams)... -
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: £30.00£23.29Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual... -
Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings by Zeuler Lima 9780691191195
RRP: £42.00£30.33The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist regime and... -
Matt Rugg: The Many Languages of Sculpture by Michael Bird 9781848226623
RRP: £40.00£30.34Examining for the first time the life and work of the sculptor Matt Rugg (1935-2020), Michael Bird's impeccably researched text vividly charts Rugg's parallel careers as artist and teacher in the context of developments in creative pedagogy in Britain... -
The Art of Walking: A History in 100 Images by William Chapman Sharpe
RRP: £25.00£20.92A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking "A broad-ranging book [that] has something for every rambler."-Benjamin Riley, New Criterion What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of... -
How to be an Artist by Michael Atavar 9780953107315
RRP: £11.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953107315Author Michael AtavarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kiosk PublishingPublisher Kiosk PublishingWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
Try to Tell a Fish About Water: The Art and Community of Norma Tanega by Norma Tenega
RRP: £22.00£15.24In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of Claremont, California. She was also a visual artist of astonishing... -
But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory by Cynthia A. Freeland
RRP: £13.99£10.48In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She... -
Sketching Women: Learn to Draw Lifelike Female Figures, A Complete Course for Beginners - over 600 illustrations Studio Atelier 21 9784805316030
RRP: £16.99£11.94In Sketching Women, three professional studio artists (Kozo Ueda, PhD, Takahiro Okada, PhD and Minoru Hirota, PhD) join forces to show you how to sketch the female figure through 55 step-by-step drawing lessons.Each instructor walks you through their... -
Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed
RRP: £29.99£24.56The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo's ancient, medieval, and... -
Vintage Beauty Parlor: Flawless Hair and Make-Up in Iconic Vintage Styles by Hannah Wing
RRP: £9.99£7.67Step back in time to an age of Hollywood glamour, summer-lovin' or punk rock, with this gorgeous collection of vintage hair and make-up styles to re-create at home. The desire for all things vintage has truly made its way back into fashion and, as the... -
Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements by Gauvin Alexander Bailey
RRP: £45.00£35.79An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the... -
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
RRP: £18.99£14.52The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... -
Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon by Owen Hopkins
RRP: £25.00£20.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856697361Author Owen HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 640g -
Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye by Helen Scott 9781911408208
RRP: £20.00£13.10First book on the life and career of Scottish artist Edwin LucasBook InformationISBN 9781911408208Author Helen ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & Co -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb 9780008498740
RRP: £14.99£9.70A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a... -
Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives by Rene Boer 9789493246201
RRP: £22.00£15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246201Author Rene BoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 119mm * 23mm -
Contemporary Design Africa by Tapiwa Matsinde
RRP: £19.95£13.73Finally a book on African design that celebrates the contemporary! It is packed with works that show how the continent's rich array of craft traditions are being preserved and revived with an exciting contemporary twist. An introductory section... -
Ethics by Walead Beshty 9780854882359
RRP: £16.95£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882359Author Walead BeshtyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 550g -
The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America by Maggie Taft 9780226550329
RRP: £18.00£15.40A history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish modern comfort. Today, Danish Modern design is synonymous with clean, midcentury cool. During the 1950s and '60s, it flourished as the... -
Welwyn & Welwyn Garden City in 50 Buildings by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £15.99£10.85Situated a mile from the Hertfordshire village of Welwyn, the Garden City was founded in 1920. It was the vision of Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement that aimed to combine the benefits of living in a town with those of living in the... -
Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, 1593-1598 by Geoffrey Marsh
RRP: £30.00£26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479721Author Geoffrey MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press