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Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed. by Rhiannon Paget 9783836594875
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.98The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage... -
Vienna. Portrait of a City by Christian Brandstatter 9783836567268
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur-but... -
The Book of Colour Concepts. 45th Ed. Alexandra Loske 9783754401248
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25The earliest forms of human creativity - in carvings, markings, and cave paintings - bear witness to humanity's engagement with color. Almost as old as these examples is the desire to assign... -
The Stan Lee Story Roy Thomas 9783836587587
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02The mostly true tale of Stan Lee, the one and only Godfather of Comics. From his childhood in Depression-era New York, to transforming Marvel into the number one comics publisher in the world, to his... -
Small Houses by Philip Jodidio 9783836587013
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57Small Houses is a tribute to the endless artistic inventiveness of architects and ingenuity of perception of the familiar and known concepts. It is also a conscious pivot towards sustainability and... -
Fashion Designers A-Z. Updated 2020 Edition by Suzy Menkes 9783836578820
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.56From Azzedine Alaia, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century's worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld Sandro Vannini 9783836571463
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.89Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an... -
Paris. Portrait of a City by Jean-Claude Gautrand 9783836502931
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to... -
Michelangelo. Complete Works by 9783836586122
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,... -
Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today... -
Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll by Robert Santelli
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.74"Elvis who?" was photographer Alfred Wertheimer's response when, in early 1956, RCA Victor asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be... -
Motorcycles. 40th Ed. Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836598774
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Dream Rides: The most spectacular bikes on the planet. From the 1894 Hildebrand & Wolfmuller to the 2020 Aston Martin AMB 001, this book lavishly explores 50 of the most desirable motorcycles to have... -
Warhol by Klaus Honnef
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism,... -
Compression by Steven Holl 9781616898519
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.82Steven Holl celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark book Anchoring with Compression, a collection of thirty-five major projects from the past decade. Holl applies concepts from... -
Redoute. Book of Flowers by H. Walter Lack 9783836568937
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper... -
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. The Ultimate History by David Gerstein 9783836583558
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.34On November 18, 1928, the world's most famous mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney... -
Contemporary Japanese Architecture. 40th Ed. by Philip Jodidio 9783836595728
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the... -
The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of... -
Michelangelo. The Complete Paintings, Sculptures and Arch. by Frank Zoellner
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,... -
Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 40th Ed. Philip Jodidio 9783836593496
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible... -
Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered Pierluigi Serraino 9783836592550
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.00The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of '50s and '60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what about... -
New York. Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden 9783836505147
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are... -
Sebastiao Salgado. Gold by Sebastiao Salgado 9783836575089
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £38.22"What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?" - Sebastiao Salgado ... -
Contemporary Japanese Architecture by Philip Jodidio 9783836575102
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the... -
David De Vleeschauwer. Remote Experiences by 9783836586023
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Remote Experiences is the visual account of the extraordinary journeys of photographer David De Vleeschauwer through the world's most uncharted territories. In pursuit of the best of travel, he has... -
100 Movies of the 1970s Jürgen Müller 9783836587273
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.40The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging '60s and the decadent '80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the Cold... -
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley 9783836585606
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Initiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of witchcraft, from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary embrace of the craft by modern artists and activists,... -
Zaha Hadid by Philip Jodidio
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the... -
Decorative Art 70s by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.20Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and... -
Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 2020 Edition by Philip Jodidio 9783836572439
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible... -
Mucha by Tomoko Sato 9783836550093
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) defined the look of the fin-de-siecle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and... -
NYT Explorer. 100 Trips Around the World by Barbara Ireland 9783836584173
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Whether it's a culinary adventure in vibrant Mexico City, a historic and meditative train ride through Siberia, or a solo trip to Paris, get your bucket lists ready with the discoveries of Explorer a... -
TATTOO. 1730s-1970s. Henk Schiffmacher’s Private Collection by Henk Schiffmacher
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.41One part history book, one part art book, and one part fascinating memoir, this book is an overview of more than two centuries of tattoo history intermixed with an intimate look at the lives of... -
The Book of the Flower: Flowers in Art Angus Hyland 9781786272454
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'Art is the flower, life is the green leaf' - Charles Rennie Mackintosh Haphazard bunches, formal bouquets, chance arrangements, quiet and thoughtful rural encounters - The Book of the Flower... -
The Short Story of Modern Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes and Techniques by Susie Hodge
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter. Simply constructed, the... -
Heroides by Ovid
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers... -
All-American Ads of the 90s by Steven Heller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.52From the Los Angeles riots to the Columbine High School massacre, Americans witnessed events and purchased items that reflected the best and worst of the decade. Bill Clinton's presidency was in... -
Abstract Expressionism by Barbara Hess
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.73Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in... -
Sneaker Freaker. The Ultimate Sneaker Book by Simon Wood 9783836572231
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.01Back in 2002, Simon "Woody" Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Freaker and his life was never the same. From its early roots as a... -
Josef Heinrich Darchinger. Wirtschaftswunder by Klaus Honnef 9783836589277
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World...