Art, Architecture & Design

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314551Author Lucy DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957627543Author GestaltaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kahboom LtdPublisher Kahboom LtdWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 165mm * 10mm

Julia Rothman's best-selling illustrated Anatomy series takes a deep dive into the wonders of the sea with Ocean Anatomy. Follow Rothman's inquisitive mind and perceptive eye along shorelines, across the open ocean, and below the waves for an artistic...

The first guide to timber framing written specifically for beginners! Expert Will Beemer takes you through the entire process from start to finish, beginning with timber sourcing and ending with a finished building. Using full-colour photos, detailed...

Inspired by the works of French Post-Impressionist and Fauvist artists, the Scottish Colourists (Samuel Peploe, J.D. Fergusson, Leslie Hunter and F.C.B. Cadell) introduced 1920s Britain to a whole new style of painting. While they did not regard...

This book presents a simplified and practical vision of the muscular functions of the human body to help you in your drawing studies, encouraging both accuracy and movement.Bodybuilder athletes offer us an ideal repertoire of shapes and proportions for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736633304Author Teresa TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Product Talk LLCPublisher Product Talk LLCWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222856Author Tom BoltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854883165Author Tom JeffreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 600g

With over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn."I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings, evenings or...

The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.Thinking with Type is to typography what...

Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of central Glasgow, and the fishing village of Catterline,...

Seeking advice on practice management? This new edition of RIBA's classic guide brings guidance right up to date. It covers topics, such as sustainability, building safety, modern methods of construction, BIM and digital technology. In print for 50...

HIGHGROVE: A GARDEN CELEBRATED is a commemoration of the beautiful, mature gardens planned and planted by The Prince of Wales over thirty years ago. The gardens at Highgrove evoke intense emotion. In January, the dramatic light and early snowdrops of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956819635Author Neil AldridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Hemisphere PublishingPublisher Hemisphere Publishing

Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) is one of the most important and best loved artists in the Kettle's Yard collection. Nicholson met Kettle's Yard founder Jim Ede in 1924, and they kept in regular contact over the following decades. Ede credited Winifred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992903961Author Roger AcklingFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers

Apostasy is a remarkable new collection of fourteen poems by John Burnside, one of the UK's foremost poets. A child struggles to reconcile a received Catholic world-view with a more instinctive and passionate paganism. A deep connection with the...

In order to meet UK Carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and 2050 building owners will be required to upgrade their buildings to meet an increasingly stringent set of energy performance requirements. In the absence of any clear advice from UK Government...

Architectural solutions & designs to optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune.Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building...

Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian paperbacks with Frank Frazetta covers, and the...

First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to colour which been cherished by naturalists and anthropologists for over two centuries. In the late 1790's Abraham Gottlob Werner devised his own standardised colour...

From New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Tarot who has redefined tarot for the twenty-first century comes an original oracle deck and guidebook that takes seekers on a journey of self-discovery-now in a compact, pocket-sized format.Kim...

In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini,...

Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet's lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker's pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650314Author Nathan FowkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 267mm...

An in-depth study that sheds a fascinating new light on Sir John Soane (1753–1837) and his world-renowned collection Sir John Soane’s architecture has enjoyed a revival of interest over the last seventy years, yet Soane as a collector—the strategy...

Draw realistic animal portraits in coloured pencils with award-winning teacher and animal artist, Lisa Ann Watkins. Animals are an eternally popular subject for artists but how do you capture the character of a much-loved pet or bring a favourite...

The definitive history of Hollywood's most legendary costume designer, featuring an insightful biography and previously unseen sketches, ephemera, and photos behind the scenes of hundreds of iconic films.All About Eve. Funny Face. Sunset Blvd. Rear...

An essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade, Grayson Perry's series of tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences. Telling a story of class and taste, aspiration and identity, tapestry series The Vanity of Small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701744Author Brenda DanilowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 530g

A charming, illustrated gift book combining two timelessly stylish subjects - Audrey Hepburn and the city of Paris.Both classic, both inimitable, both fashion icons - Audrey Hepburn and Paris are a match made in heaven. Falling in love with the city at a...

'A great mind that is constantly exploring, searching, "becoming" . . . an impressive collection' Elif Shafak, Observer'A phenomenal book' Claire Kohda Hazelton, Guardian'We are fortunate to have Hustvedt voicing doubt so intelligently' Lara Feigel,...

This practical and well-illustrated book gives a full account of how to make bold, dynamic collagraph prints. It explains a range of techniques from drypoint to collagraph, as well as viscosity printing and mixed media. Packed with finished examples, it...

In Morpho: Hands and Feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet--arguably the most popular and, to some, the most difficult...

This reader delves into the history of Richard Billingham’s landmark photobook Ray’s A Laugh (1996), tracing its complex history of development and dissemination in the art world of the 1990s.Book InformationISBN 9781915743367Author Liz JobeyFormat...

'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.Penguin Modern: fifty new books...

Improve your skills and techniques for drawing mammals! This small, portable book presents more than 500 drawings for 100 species of mammals, collected into categories of habitat land, water, and air. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella...

Learn to draw all kinds of cute cats doing all sorts of silly things through 75 step-by-step tutorials. In this mini edition of Kawaii Kitties, popular Instagram artist Bichi Mao (@bichi.mao) perfectly captures cats' different attitudes, while playing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404738Author Ernest NorlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...