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Little Book of Tokyo Style: The Fashion History of the Iconic City by Emmanuelle Dirix
RRP: $25.33$17.55'If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.' - Kazuo IshiguroFrom the youthful maximalism of Harajuku to the luxurious sophistication of Ginza, Tokyo... -
Little Book of London Style: The fashion story of the iconic city by Karen Homer
RRP: $25.33$17.71An inspiration to countless designers and the stomping ground of fashion's in-crowd, London is the capital of subculture.From Mary Quant to Alexander McQueen, from punks to goths, and from Twiggy to Naomi Campbell, Little Book of London Style is the... -
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka 9781635572100
RRP: $37.03$30.75Apologies 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 -
50 Designers You Should Know by Claudia Hellmann
RRP: $29.23$21.35Designers have shaped our modern age, whether it's the chair we're sitting in, the computer we're reading on, or the house we're living in. Design is everywhere, and this volume profiles fifty of the most influential figures over the past one hundred... -
Curves: Flowers, Foliates & Flourishes in The Formal Decorative Arts by Lisa DeLong 9781904263883
RRP: $11.68$8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904263883Author Lisa DeLongFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden Books -
Politics of the Everyday by Ezio Manzini
RRP: $31.18$29.33Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives. These may confirm the general tendency towards new forms of connected solitude, in which we work, travel and live alone, yet feel sociable mainly by means of technology. ... -
Liberty: The History – Luxury Edition: Treasure from the archives of the London department store by Marie-Therese Rieber 9781802796070
RRP: $97.50$67.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802796070Author Marie-Therese RieberPage Count 170Imprint WelbeckPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Jazz Covers. 40th Ed. by Joaquim Paulo
RRP: $48.75$36.31Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the most daring and dynamic jazz cover designs that... -
Logo Design. Global Brands by Julius Wiedemann
RRP: $39.00$29.99Following up on the best-selling Bibliotheca Universalis logo manual, this second volume focuses on corporate identity. In a globalized world, more and more symbols convey values such as trust, quality, or reliability. This catalog comprehensively... -
Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette: An Illustrative Enquiry by Mireille Fauchon 9781350297524
$46.08Through an investigation of the Holloway prison writings of the suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool and creates within this book a model of practice-based enquiry. Illustrative methods and... -
More More More by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
RRP: $39.00$25.41Let master of Maximalism Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tell you how to create and curate a space that you can truly love spending time in.Changing Rooms' flamboyant lead designer has made a great living out of being himself, having spent his entire career... -
Crafting: Transforming Materials & the Maker by Bernard Graves
RRP: $58.40$41.57In its far-ranging and comprehensive scope, Crafting: Transforming Materials & the Maker is at once both a manual and a manifesto for crafters and craft enthusiasts the world over. A must-have for any craft and educational library, it is a volume that... -
Inspiring Walt Disney - The Animation of French Decorative Arts by Wolf Burchard
RRP: $78.00$68.62How Walt Disney and the Disney Studios wove the aesthetics of French decorative arts into the fairy-tale worlds of beloved animated films, from Cinderella to Beauty and the Beast and beyond Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what... -
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730 by David Jacques
RRP: $87.75$78.06Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English formal... -
The Colour of Fashion: The story of clothes in 10 colours by Caroline Young
RRP: $29.23$19.99The story of fashion is woven through with colour. Vividly illustrated and compellingly written, The Colour of Fashion uncovers the colourful history of style, through 10 shades and their key moments in the spotlight - including Beyonce in empowering... -
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop... -
Jazz Covers by Joaquim Paulo 9783836585255
RRP: $97.50$65.11Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the most daring and dynamic jazz cover designs that... -
Fashion: A Manifesto by Anouchka Grose
RRP: $31.18$27.32On the one hand clothes can supposedly help you out with embodied life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating the bits you're proud of. However, fashion isn't really about clothes in any practical sense, but rather the endless... -
New Retro Illustrations: Retro Reimagined by a New Generation by PIE International
RRP: $48.75$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253477Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Vintage Fashion: Collecting and wearing designer classics by Emma Baxter-Wright
RRP: $39.00$26.81Foreword by Zandra Rhodes A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the... -
Fritz Kahn. Infographics Pioneer by Uta and Thilo von Debschitz
RRP: $58.50$43.97Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by the Nazis, who banned and burned his books, Kahn emigrated to Palestine, then France, and finally the United States... -
Little Book of Balmain: The story of the iconic fashion house by Karen Homer 9781802796735
RRP: $27.28$18.74"Good fashion is evolution, not revolution" - Pierre BalmainOne of the original big Parisian couture houses, alongside the likes of Dior and Chanel, Pierre Balmain reigned supreme over the 1950s fashion world with his spectacular and intricate evening... -
Fashion Since 1900 by Valerie Mendes 9780500204023
$34.53From Belle Epoque tea gowns to Dior's 1947 'New Look' and fashion blogs in the 2000s, this comprehensive, international survey explores all the significant developments in fashion from 1900 to the present day. Formerly published as the internationally... -
The Glass of Fashion: A Personal History of Fifty Years of Changing Tastes and the People Who Have Inspired Them by Cecil Beaton
RRP: $23.36$19.70The camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees, Truman Capote once said of Cecil Beaton. Though known for his portraits, Beaton was as incisive a writer as he was a photographer. First published in 1954, The... -
Gucci: The Making of by Stefano Tonchi 9780847836796
RRP: $146.25$107.64An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs. Published in conjunction with the... -
Little Book of New York Style: The Fashion History of the Iconic City by Kristen Bateman
RRP: $25.33$17.71From Carrie Bradshaw to Grace Jones, and from Nicki Minaj to Blair Waldorf, New York is the fashion 'it girl' capital of the world.Home of both laid-back street style and the luxury of the MET Gala, New York has earned its reputation as one of the most... -
The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz 9780262048538
RRP: $44.85$27.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048538Author Frank LantzFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 143mm * 18mm -
500 Years, 100 Watches by Alexander Barter 9783791379753
RRP: $97.48$69.44From two of the world's leading experts on watch collecting, this supremely elegant and informative selection of one hundred watches traces the timepiece's evolution as it highlights unusual, important, and beautifully crafted watches of the past half a... -
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech by Virgil Abloh
RRP: $132.58$92.47The essential volume on the great fashion designer, entrepreneur and Louis Vuitton artistic director, back in print This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself, accompanies his acclaimed landmark 2019-23 touring... -
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation by Ezio Manzini
RRP: $48.75$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028608Author Ezio ManziniFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield 9781399609302
RRP: $29.23$19.11Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and... -
BRAUN--Fifty Years of Design and Innovation: Fifty Years of Design and Innovation by Bernd Polster 9783936681352
RRP: $83.85$60.29Braun products have been shown more frequently at exhibitions than those of any other comparable company. Some people find that they reflect basic human values such as authenticity and integrity. For others, they are the very incarnation of German... -
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
RRP: $48.73$32.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Massachusetts Book Award 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780735220003Author Sara HendrenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher... -
Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors by Vidal Sassoon
RRP: $58.50$42.80A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture,... -
Designing Motherhood by Michelle Millar Fisher
RRP: $79.95$54.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044899Author Michelle Millar FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind by Adam Tetlow 9781904263708
RRP: $13.55$9.15How do you draw Celtic knotwork? What are the secrets of keys? Are there tricks for drawing Celtic spirals? What do these mysterious patterns actually mean? Who drew them? Where did they come from? In this exquisite pocket book, author and artist Adam... -
Purity of Aim - The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew 9781933360485
RRP: $29.23$25.41This concise overview of the work of designer Alvin Lustig (1915-55) focuses on his book covers, vehicles for his bold graphic experimentation. Here is a colorful and well-researched representation of Alvin Lustig's book cover designs that were... -
Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960 by Robin Schuldenfrei 9780691232669
RRP: $107.25$82.17An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile... -
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective by Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Roessler
RRP: $58.50$44.83Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that... -
The Stuff Games Are Made Of by Pippin Barr 9780262546119
RRP: $56.55$40.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546119Author Pippin BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd