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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
RRP: £20.00£14.35Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).Set amid the most turbulent social and political... -
David Shrigley by David Shrigley
RRP: £30.00£20.63Get Your Shit Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley. This volume celebrates Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying... -
Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel by Eric Boman
RRP: £29.95£20.38A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures and... -
Norman Foster by Frédéric Migayrou 9781788842273
RRP: £50.00£33.95"A very inspiring book that shows that visions do not have to be castles in the air..." - Lovely Books Germany "The clouds the limit: an opulent book as an appreciation for a big-thinking designer." - Sueddeutsche Zeitung Norman Foster is a globally... -
Treasures of the British Museum by Marjorie L. Caygill
RRP: £25.00£17.98The British Museum is the most magnificent treasure-house in the world. The wealth and range of its collections is unequalled by any other national museum. The Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, drawings by Botticelli and... -
Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style by Kelly Wearstler
RRP: £45.00£33.41Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of old-world Hollywood with a modern pop sensibility, Wearstler is known for her decadent designs of residences and boutique hotels, such as the line of Viceroys and the tastemakers Maison... -
Convivial Ground: Stories from Collaborative Spatial Practices by Constructlab 9783986120047
RRP: £28.00£21.50We are all improvising. We are all making decisions. And we are all watching each other improvise. Together, we are improvising. Decisions become shared ones. We will have built this city together. Convivial Ground invites the reader to discover the work... -
Wren by Margaret Whinney
RRP: £9.95£7.08Sir Christopher Wren overcame a complete lack of formal training and firsthand knowledge of European architecture to become a master of his art. He built nothing before he was thirty; but by the time he was seventy and still very active, his achievements... -
Studio KO by Karl Fornier
RRP: £60.00£44.45Founded by French architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty in 2000, Studio KO has quickly secured its status in the world of architectural design. A refreshing modernist aesthetic imbued with subtle references to history and culture defines their work... -
Kelly Hoppen Design Masterclass: How to Achieve the Home of Your Dreams by Kelly Hoppen
RRP: £45.00£30.85Design Masterclass is the definitive home-decorating guide from Kelly Hoppen, offering invaluable professional advice on both the practical and aesthetic aspects of interior design. Kelly shares her trade secrets and expert knowledge to help you ensure... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Weintraub
RRP: £19.95£15.85Frank Lloyd Wright presents a stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, encompassing the entirety of Wright's long and extraordinarily prolific career. From his earliest work, such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, of 1889, to... -
John Pawson, Making Life Simpler by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £79.95£58.99The only comprehensive book on the fascinating life and work of the celebrated architectural designer, John Pawson This visual biography brings together John Pawson's architecture, life, clients, travel, photography, design, books, and ideas. Written by... -
The Eiffel Tower by Bertrand Lemoine 9783836584418
£30.97"The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn't made, somehow, in the Tower's name." - Roland Barthes When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £18.99£12.46'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don't deserve Meades, a man who apparently has... -
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128410Author Lynsey AddarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence by Ross King
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Compelling... fascinating' Spectator'Abounding with excellent little stories' Financial TimesThis is the story of one of the most magnificent achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the architect behind it.Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and... -
Sverre Fehn: Nordic Pavilion, Venice by Sverre Fehn
RRP: £40.00£28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786390Author Sverre FehnFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG -
In Search of BAWA: Master Architect of Sri Lanka by David Robson 9781780679136
RRP: £16.95£11.91This book answers some important questions about Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka's pre-eminent architect, and his legacy. A sizeable introductionto Bawa's world, life, education and work is reviewed by eminent Bawa scholar, David Robson. This precedes a... -
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: £9.99£6.80A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the... -
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard 9781789147773
RRP: £14.95£10.92Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female... -
Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu: De Aedibus International by Heinz Wirz 9783037611340
RRP: £34.95£28.78The name of this firm is formed from the three Belgian architects Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu in Ghent. The volume presents some of their interventions to existing building constellations. These are always like surgical procedures that... -
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch 9780062698261
RRP: £30.00£21.35"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway... -
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance by Jonathan Adams
RRP: £25.00£21.21The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. It has often been said that he was ahead of his... -
Boy Like Me by Simon James Green 9780702313653
RRP: £8.99£5.82"Believable characters and the warmth of Green's writing bring light to a difficult topic" - Observer In the margins of a book's pages, sparks fly as a teenage romance begins. But in this time and place, sparks... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Hess
RRP: £75.00£63.44Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's... -
Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works by David Robson 9780500341872
RRP: £50.00£34.75Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and the buildings he created have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. Few architects achieved his harmonious fusion of local building traditions with modern forms and sensibility Bawa's... -
The Art of Still Life: A Contemporary Guide to Classical Techniques, Composition, Drawing, and Painting in Oil by Todd M. Casey 9781580935487
RRP: £32.95£24.92A must-have reference book for today's artists and art students. Every artist needs to learn and master the still life. Written by a well-known artist and expert instructor, The Art of Still Life offers a comprehensive, contemporary approach to the... -
Posthuman Architecture: A Catalogue of Archetypes by Jacopo Leveratto
RRP: £29.95£19.38For long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to... -
Alchemy: The Material World of David Adjaye by Spencer Bailey
RRP: £59.95£43.30A fascinating new take on the architecture of Sir David Adjaye OM OBE, exploring how he chooses, uses, and combines materials, and the extraordinary buildings and structures that result David Adjaye is one of the most in-demand architects today, known... -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four by Roger Billcliffe
RRP: £28.00£19.79Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in both art and architecture at the end of the Victorian era. The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work... -
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka 9781635572100
RRP: £18.99£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572100Author Kyle ChaykaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 412g -
Kengo Kuma: Complete Works by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: £48.00£33.51The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the country's traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. From his iconic Glass House (1995) to Dundee's... -
Peter Behrens - 1868 / 2018 by Cologne Makk 9783862066957
RRP: £50.00£32.35Peter Behrens (1868-1940) was one of the most innovative architects and designers of the early 20th century. He is widely recognised as a pioneer of modern industrial design. To this day, his buildings and designs inform our everyday lives. As head... -
Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style by Karen E. Hudson 9780847838479
RRP: £45.00£38.35Over a career spanning six decades, architect Paul Revere Williams came to define what gracious living looked like for the Hollywood elite. Williams mastered an array of architectural idioms-including American Colonial, Spanish Mediterranean, English... -
Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work: A Biographic Collage by Christoph Schaub 9783858819154
RRP: £29.17£18.90Over the past thirty years, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has expressed himself on numerous occasions and in a range of contexts about his work and his self-conception as an architect. Many of these statements have been recorded on film. Christoph... -
Morandi 1890-1964 by Maria Cristina Bandera
RRP: £39.95£27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861307162Author Maria Cristina BanderaFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2450g -
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: Volume 1: Country-Houses by A.S.G. Butler
RRP: £125.00£82.64"The quality of the reprint is nearly perfect, with a good selection of papers for the three sequential parts of the book: the texts, the drawings, and the black-and-white photographs. Text and drawings are on matte heavyweight pages, while the photos... -
Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
RRP: £19.00£16.60Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an... -
Getting, Keeping and Working with your Agent: The Compact Guide by JB R 9781848429413
RRP: £8.99£6.40This empowering, informative guide explains everything actors need to know about agents - how to find one, what they do, and how to work with them effectively to help you succeed in your career. If you're currently seeking an agent, discover how to... -
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz
RRP: £30.00£23.22The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract...