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20th-Century Fashion. 100 Years of Apparel Ads Alison A. Nieder 9783836522793
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the... -
Walter Chandoha. Cats. Photographs 1942-2018 by Susan Michals
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.10On a winter's night in 1949 in New York City, young marketing student and budding photographer Walter Chandoha spotted a stray kitten in the snow, bundled it into his coat, and brought it home... -
The Computer by Jens Müller
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £53.67The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today’s world. From the early beginnings of computing to the bulky mainframe to the... -
Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World by Philip Jodidio
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an... -
Living in Tuscany. 40th Ed. Barbara & Rene Stoeltie 9783836594424
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Under the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, and olive groves—all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling centuries-old towns, rural villas, and contadino farmhouses. We’ve tracked down... -
James Lovelock et al. The Earth and I by James Lovelock 9783836588348
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79“We are buried beneath mountains of fast-accumulating data. In such circumstances, this book, rather than adding to the data load, aims to offer real understanding.” —James LovelockHuman beings are... -
domus 1960–1969 by Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593854
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and... -
The Gourmand's Lemon. A Collection of Stories and Recipes by The Gourmand 9783836585903
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.40The deceptively simple lemon takes center stage in the second volume of TASCHEN’s collaboration with The Gourmand, masters of the rich intersection of food and art. The star of Renaissance gardens,... -
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works. 40th Anniversary Edition by 9783836587860
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836587860Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbHWeight(grams) 156g -
Caravaggio by Giles Lambert 9783822863053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £3.00Caravaggio - A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of... -
Kate Moss by Mario Testino by Mario Testino 9783836550697
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The result of two decades of extraordinary friendship, and... -
The World of Ornament by David Batterham
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history's most elegant patterns and ornamental designs.The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of... -
Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works by Jurgen Muller
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.56The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands,... -
Strandbeest: the Dream Machines of Theo Jansen by Lena Herzog
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.74Sculptural species: A new life-form in its own right? Lena Herzog captures the uncanny sculpture-creatures of Theo Jansen For the past seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog has followed... -
The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work by Florian Idenburg
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.99Immerse yourself with architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen as they journey through a wide-ranging collection of the objects, systems, and buildings that have occupied the American office space... -
Koolhaas/Obrist. Project Japan. Metabolism Talks by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.79"Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group... -
Impressionism by Ingo F. Walther
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose... -
Mary McCartney. Feeding Creativity by Mary McCartney 9783836589420
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16Mary McCartney is a photographer, filmmaker, TV cook and author. In Feeding Creativity she blends her passions for food and photography, cooking 60 of her favourite recipes for friends, family,... -
Logo Modernism by Jens Muller 9783836545303
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £52.88Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which... -
Caravaggio. The Complete Works by Sebastian Schutze 9783836555814
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and... -
Walt Disney’s Disneyland by Chris Nichols 9783836595131
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.98Walt Disney dreamed for decades about opening the ultimate entertainment venue, but it wasn’t until the early 1950s that his handpicked team began to bring his vision to life. Together, artists,... -
Harry Benson. The Beatles by Harry Benson 9783836598187
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79In early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London’s Daily Express, who asked him to cover the Beatles’ trip to Paris. It was the beginning of a career-defining... -
Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido by Rhiannon Paget 9783754403136
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.14The Kisokaidō 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... -
Illustration Now 3 by Julius Wiedemann 9783836514873 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £2.90This title includes pictures that worth a thousand words. It features the worldwide revival of the illustrator's art. The latest volume "Illustration Now!" presents a completely new selection of 150... -
The James Bond Archives. “No Time To Die” Edition by Paul Duncan
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This... -
Chagall Ingo F. Walther 9783836527835
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often... -
Living in Mexico. 40th Anniversary Edition by Barbara & Rene Stoeltie
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03South of the border, rich colors and woven textiles form a unique design aesthetic, crafted by the union of local Aztec and Mayan cultures and Spanish influences. Bold pigments and vivid patterns... -
Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries. 40th Ed. by Taschen
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and... -
All-American Ads of the 40s by Jim Heimann 9783836588584
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.52At the beginning of the decade, America was at war. Patriotism was an integral part of everyday life, with the sentiment mirrored in advertising. As America emerged victorious out of the darkness of... -
Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal Taschen 9783754402153
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.72Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge... -
Frederic Chaubin. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frederic Chaubin
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85Photographer Frederic Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in 14 former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an... -
Egypt by Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.43From the Land of the Pharaohs. The finest treasures from Ancient Egypt. The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of... -
Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. 40th Ed. by Wolfgang Tillmans
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky... -
Walter Chandoha. Dogs. Photographs 1941-1991 Reuel Golden 9783836584296
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.96The world appears to be divided into cat and dog lovers, but fortunately Walter Chandoha, the 20th century’s greatest pet photographer found himself happily in the middle. He loved these intriguing... -
Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold Gay Talese 9783836576185
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.05"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence... -
Kay Nielsen. 1001 Nights by Taschen 9783836595636
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £37.63In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The results are considered... -
domus 1928-1939 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836594455
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Offering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the “living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major... -
Fausto & Felice Niccolini. The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii by Valentin Kockel 9783836556873
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £117.51When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use... -
Rock Covers by Robbie Busch 9783836545259
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become... -
Rem Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture by Rem Koolhaas 9783836556149
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.16Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, facade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate...