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Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion by Alfons Kaiser 9780500297537
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Financial Times Book of the Year: the definitive story of fashion's most enigmatic icon. Karl Lagerfeld lived a very public life. He shaped the Chanel and Fendi brands for decades, and his wit and... -
British Women Artists: From Suffrage to the Sixties by Carolyn Trant 9780500297827
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women. Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very... -
Hiroshige Henri-Alexis Baastch 9780500030585
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £67.04A deluxe, large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Utagawa Hiroshige, thought to be the most successful ukiyo-e artist of Japan's Edo period. From the author of Hokusai:... -
Islamic Geometric Design by Eric Broug 9780500516959
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.04Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvellous intricacy, yet in truth they are seldom understood. Indeed, their complexity and artistry can seem almost beyond the... -
Architecture after Modernism by Diane Ghirardo
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Since the Modern Movement began to be challenge in the late 1960s, architecture has followed a number of widely divergent paths. In this thoughtful and eloquent book, Diane Ghirardo examines the... -
The Hidden Language of Symbols by Matthew Wilson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10A stimulating narrative and reference resource that guides the reader through the most significant symbols from worldwide art history. Why do we reach for the red rose on Valentine's day? Where... -
Photography Masterclass: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers by Paul Lowe
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.23What makes some photographs stay in the memory forever? Sometimes it's the subject matter alone, but more often it's the skill of the artists who took them. The premise of this magnificent book is... -
Jim Olson: Building * Nature * Art by Jim Olson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.20Over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Seattle-based architect Jim Olson, of Olson Kundig, has made his name designing a broad range of buildings that sensitively respond to... -
Dick Bruna by Bruce Ingman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25'For millions of children, Dick Bruna's books are the first they will encounter. They don't know how lucky they are' Michael Bond This latest instalment in The Illustrators on Dutch artist Dick Bruna... -
Robot House by Peter Testa
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.61The next generation of architectural design is moving outside the box. Robotic arms are beginning to replace and advance now common digital fabrication technologies. Six-axis robots are showing the... -
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But... -
Picasso: The Self Portraits by Pascal Bonafoux
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £14.93The first book dedicated to Picasso's self-portraits, many held in private collections and published here for the first time. Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until... -
Woody Allen: A Retrospective by Tom Shone
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.68Woody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic comedies to introspective character studies and... -
Type Team: Perfect Typeface Combinations by Tony Seddon
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48Typeface combinations don't always work together naturally. For an experienced designer, the process becomes largely intuitive after years of practice, but even seasoned professionals sometimes... -
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919,... -
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods by David Lewis-Williams
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This fascinating book continues the story begun in the bestselling and critically acclaimed book The Mind in the Cave. Drawing on the latest research and recent discoveries, the authors skilfully... -
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions.Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and... -
Art + Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics Stephen Wilson 9780500289952
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.12Art + Science Now is a groundbreaking overview of the art being made at the cutting edge of scientific research. The first illustrated book in its field, it shows how some of the world's most dynamic... -
Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook by Henry Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In February 1972 Henry Moore's sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. He retreated to a small... -
Cezanne: Drawings and Watercolours by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Drawing was central to Cezanne's indefatigable search for solutions to the problems posed by the depiction of reality. Many of his watercolours are equal to his paintings, and he himself made no real... -
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present Roselee Goldberg 9780500204689
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.50An updated edition of the pioneering study in the acclaimed World of Art series, this classic book surveys a full century of performance art, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 through the second... -
HUXLEY Ben Mauro 9780500298435
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18A gripping, post-apocalyptic sci-fi graphic novel from acclaimed universe-builder Ben Mauro, perfect for fans of Dune and Star Wars. While humanity limps on in this new world, the lives of two... -
The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors Mallory Matsumoto 9780500026540
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.94The perfect introduction to the gods, heroes and ancestors of the great Maya civilization. Highly complex and divided into politically fragmented noble houses, the Maya civilization produced a... -
Wifredo Lam Jacques Leenhardt 9780500030608
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £39.45A beautifully illustrated monograph on Wifredo Lam, providing a comprehensive retrospective of the Cuban artist's life and work. With the 125th anniversary of his birth approaching, recent research... -
The 1990s: Image of a Decade Henry Carroll 9780500027370
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.76An exploration of history, art, film, music and culture in a unique, immersive and visual narrative of a conflicted and momentous decade. As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached,... -
Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead Roger Luckhurst 9780500027707
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the... -
Switzerland: The Monocle Handbook Tyler Brûlé 9780500966419
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.75The fifth edition in Monocle's best-selling travel handbook series, with everything you need to plan a short trip, or a longer stay, in Switzerland. This practical and inspirational guide takes you... -
Landmark: The Fields of Landscape Photography by William A. Ewing
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £29.68Landmark is a defining survey of contemporary landscape photography. It features more than 230 images by over 100 leading photographers of today, all of whom present an individual viewpoint about a... -
Sofas: 340 Iconic Designs by Agata Toromanoff 9780500021262
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.66For many of us, our sofa is our favourite piece of furniture. But nowadays, with living space increasingly limited, our sofa often plays more than one role in the home. It becomes a decorative... -
The Highland Clans Alistair Moffat 9780500298282
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Full of character, combining proper research with a sure eye to what attracts and sustains an audience's attention' Scotland on Sunday The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of... -
The Story of the Interior: How We Have Shaped Rooms and They Shape Us Graeme Brooker 9780500027592
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.75An exhilarating and eclectic volume on the social, cultural and technological history of interior design from prehistory to the present day, revealing how spaces shape our lives and why it matters. ... -
Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscapes and the New Planted Space by Anna Yudina
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20How far can we expand the concept of 'urban nature'? How would it make us feel? And how is it going to transform our cities - and, eventually, ourselves? Garden City captures the growing global... -
Contemporary African Art Sidney Littlefield Kasfir 9780500293591
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by any particular style, technique or theme,... -
This Book Thinks You're an Artist by Harriet Russell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This Book Thinks You're an Artist is one of the rare books on the market to combine art history with practical activities on the page. It asks the reader to imagine their eccentric-artist... -
Voysey's Birds and Animals by Karen Livingstone
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most enduringly popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practising architect, Voysey also designed a broad... -
Is Technology Making Us Sick?: A primer for the 21st century by Ian Douglas
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsModern technology has enhanced our lives in numerous ways - we can now communicate in real time with friends and... -
The Art of the Illustrated Book by Julius Bryant
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £26.59The story of the illustrated book from the earliest printed books to the present day, told through the collections of the V&A's National Art Library. This is the story of the illustrated book,... -
What Shape Is Space?: A primer for the 21st century by Giles Sparrow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsWhat Shape is Space? is a question with surprisingly far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very... -
Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic by John Hegarty 9780500296967
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A revised and expanded edition of the book described by Books Monthly as 'an absolute gem. A bible, in fact'. If the future is going to be creative, then Hegarty on Advertising points you in the... -
A History of the World in 500 Maps by Christian Grataloup 9780500252659
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day. Organized chronologically, A History of the World in 500 Maps tells a clear, linear...