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Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05This fresh global survey makes sense of a vast and increasingly diverse area of intense creativity. An essential and invaluable analysis of work from the last ten years, the book covers every aspect... -
Moonlight by Fergus O'Connell 9780857280954
Booksplease Price: £10.31Summer, 1914. Clara, a passionate young London wife and the mother of two small girls, is married to Henry, a manager at an insurance company, but the marriage is not in good shape. Both of them... -
The Spirit of Chaumet by Gabrielle de Montmorin 9780500025475
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £48.09A dazzling immersion into the universe of Chaumet, the Parisian High Jewellery Maison. The Spirit of Chaumet offers an unparalleled journey into the world of the exclusive Parisian High Jewellery... -
Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s by Alastair Duncan
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.25Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, fomenting in the great cities of Europe and America and shaping everything... -
World Textiles: A Concise History by Mary Schoeser 9780500203699
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £19.04Mary Schoeser's groundbreaking book presents a chronological survey of textiles around the world from prehistory to the present day, exploring how they are made, what they are made from, how they... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall 9781844130948
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows,... -
Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Can I Build Another Me? follows a child's hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought as he decides to make a clone of himself - and starts to ponder what makes him HIM. Is it the scar on his knee... -
Retro Watches by Mitch Greenblatt 9780500297575
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86An accessible, design-savvy collector’s guide to the world of unusual, rare and dazzlingly retro watches. Retro Watches is a popular, accessible collector’s guide for anyone who wants to make a... -
Aaahhh! by Guilherme Karsten 9780500652152
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62A big noise echoes around the world, causing chaos and confusion. What could it be? A strange force from another world? An out-of-tune saxophonist? A meteor crashing into a horn factory? And where... -
Romanticism and Art by William Vaughan 9780500202753
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £23.02In the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo an historic and irreversible change. The ideas of... -
The Incas and their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru by Michael E. Moseley 9780500282779
Booksplease Price: £26.56Described as a 'masterly study' and 'an outstanding volume' on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and... -
We Gave a Dam: The epic race to build the Thames Barrier by Rory O'Grady 9781916966451
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.75Rory O’Grady worked on the Thames Barrier in London for five years as a young civil engineer. Since retirement, he has written three books on other subjects, and spent a year researching ‘We Gave a... -
Art of the Nordic Nations: Modernism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, 1870–1950 Serge Fauchereau 9780500029565
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.04A lavishly illustrated reference on the art of the five Nordic nations, covering a wide range of mediums, movements and styles. Modern art from the Nordic countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark,... -
The Making of the Middle Ages: An Atlas of Europe John Haywood 9780500029800
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.94Trace the tumultuous history of Europe during the Early Middle Ages through 90 specially commissioned maps and a authoritative narrative. Medieval Europe remains a mystery to many, yet the relative... -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Alan Crawford
Booksplease Price: £18.73Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are... -
The Eye's Mind: Bridget Riley: Collected Writings 1965-2019 by Robert Kudielka
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her first... -
The Bittersweet Vine by Marissa de Luna 9780857280947
Booksplease Price: £10.31Maria Shroder wakes up on the morning of the 28th of September as though it were any other. She is alone in her apartment, her music is playing softly in the background... but her wrists and neck,... -
Magritte's Apple by Klaas Verplancke 9780500651032
Booksplease Price: £5.77A man named Rene floats through the world of his dreams and imagination, fulfilling his desire to become a painter - of apples and hats, apple hats, apple-these and apple-thats. In his paintings,... -
Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley by Hans Silvester
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £65.15Magnificently produced, two-volume publication is a superb chronicle of the Omo Valley's fast-vanishing and excruciatingly hard way of life, focusing on the fifteen or so tribes who live there. ... -
What's Hidden In The Body? by Aina Bestard
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24At first glance, all you can see on the page are simple outlines of body parts or seemingly abstract shapes. But look closely through the three coloured glasses and the amazing intricacy of the human... -
Eatopedia Aina Bestard 9780500653869
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25How do animals digest the food they eat? What is their favourite food? Discover how the different digestive systems of 70 different animals work… including humans! Did you know that horses can’t... -
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan 9780500202739
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £22.32Alastair Duncan tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the... -
Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye by Pascal Bonafoux
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Through his intense vision Van Gogh was able to create paintings that speak directly to us all, and today this disturbed and rejected misfit is the most universally loved of all artists. The story... -
Wren by Margaret Whinney
Booksplease Price: £10.59Sir 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... -
Patterson: Houses of Aotearoa by Andrew Patterson 9780500026458
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.59A selection of beautiful houses set amid the world’s most stunning landscapes, designed by award-winning New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson. In Maori culture, architecture is approached as a... -
Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception by Belinda Thomson 9780500203354 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £3.66Belinda Thomson illuminates Impressionist art through the thinking and personal lives of the artists themselves, examining the factors that allowed Impressionism to develop when it did. In her... -
A History of Fashion for Children Celia Joicey 9780500653364
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Come on a well-heeled tour around the globe to meet the designers, dressmakers and style icons who influence how we dress. Aimed at children 7–11 years old, A History of Fashion for Children is an... -
The Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland by 9780500514566
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.18The jewel-like watercolours of renowned Irish botanical artist Wendy Walsh portray a personal selection of about 100 plants that grow wild in Ireland or are cultivated in Irish gardens. Presented in... -
Velazquez by Richard Verdi
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86A comprehensive introduction to Velazquez's life and art which includes a discussion of all his major works. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of western painting and... -
Illustrators' Sketchbooks by Martin Salisbury 9780500023303
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10A treasure trove of visual delights: examples of the sketchbooks of sixty international illustrators offer new insights into their artistic practice. Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means... -
Ramesh by 9781760762483
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Australian Graphic Design Award 2022 (Australia). Short-listed for Australian Book Designer Awards 2023... -
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs by Michael D Coe
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.12This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Recent findings have been added to expand our... -
North American Indian Art by David W. Penney
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This timely book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America, from those of ancient cultures to the work of modern artists. The text is organized geographically, covering tribes as... -
How Many Kisses? by Delphine Chedru
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.13How Many Kisses? begins by inviting the reader to give one kiss to the cat, two kisses to the dogs, three kisses to the flowers and so on, following a classic counting technique until readers reach... -
Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium by James Putnam 9780500288351
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.23From 'cabinets of curiosities' to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the... -
How to be a Manga Artist Balthazar Pagani 9780500660294
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The ultimate guide for aspiring artists with a love of manga. Following How to Draw a Graphic Novel, Balthazar Pagani returns, joined by manga expert Asuka Ozumi, to demystify the process of... -
Amazing Animal Babies by Aina Bestard
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24Have you ever wondered how animals have babies? Maybe you've seen your cat or dog give birth - but what about a turtle or a seahorse? There are lots of different kinds of animals living on planet... -
How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters by Jon Thompson
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.23Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics, is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating and baffling to the casual observer. In this accessible, practical guide, Jon Thompson... -
Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist by Sylvie Patin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 1874 Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise caused uproar among the critics and a revolution in painting. His inventiveness was inexhaustible: with paintings of haystacks, poplars and,... -
Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint my Reality' by Christina Burrus
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. She fell victim to polio at the age of six, and was then seriously hurt in a bus accident at eighteen, resulting in...