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The World According to Christian Dior by Patrick Mauries
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.37An elegant collection of Christian Dior's maxims on style, women and inspiration, presented in a fashionable gift format. Credited with creating some of the most luxurious and spectacular haute... -
Adjaye: Works 2007-2015: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings by Peter Allison
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.20The second volume in Thames & Hudson's monographic series on global architect Sir David Adjaye, winner of the 2021 RIBA royal gold medal. Following on from Adjaye - Works: Houses, Pavilions,... -
The Human Condition: Media Art from the Kramlich Collection, I Shannon Jackson 9780500025635
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.28The first in a series of four thematic volumes devoted to the world-class Kramlich Collection, the largest and most significant private collection of modern and contemporary media art. How does... -
A New History of Italian Renaissance Art by Stephen J. Campbell 9780500239759
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.95Campbell and Cole, respected teachers and active researchers, draw on traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in this new edition of their engaging account of Italian... -
Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead 9780500025512
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60An illustrated biography of the remarkable and pioneering artist Leonora Carrington, told through the houses and locations that had meaning for her and are fundamental to an understanding of her work... -
Houses That Can Save the World by Courtenay Smith
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40An inspirational sourcebook of innovative and unexpected green design solutions for our homes that address the environmental and social issues facing our world today. Featuring nineteen... -
The Young Van Dyck by Alejandro Vergara 9780500970508
Booksplease Price: £22.00By the age of just twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced over 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book offers an in-depth study of the... -
The Naked Nude by Frances Borzello
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas. The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a... -
Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection from Count Dracula to Vampirella by Christopher Frayling 9780500296776
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A comprehensive anthology of vampires in literature, from Dracula to Twilight. Christopher Frayling has spent 50 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of... -
The Book of Pebbles by Christopher Stocks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to display on our shelves? Is it their inherent beauty, their infinite variation, or simply their... -
Henri Cartier-Bresson by Clement Cheroux
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Henri Cartier-Bresson's photography came to define the 20th century. This book tells his life story through his images: all the major events from his youth to his death in 2004 are described,... -
Byoung Cho Soon Chun Cho 9780500342916
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Byoung Cho aims to make each of his buildings 'so it looks like it's not designed at all, it's just there'. Influenced by Korea's rich aesthetic tradition, Cho utilizes understated forms to create... -
Things Come Apart 2.0: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living by Todd McLellan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93In Things Come Apart, fifty design classics - arranged by size and intricacy - are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in real-time, frame-by-frame video stills... -
Chineasy (TM) Everyday: The World of Chinese Characters by ShaoLan
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.02ShaoLan Hsueh, a Taiwanese entrepreneur based in London, couldn't find an effective way of teaching her children Chinese, so she developed a groundbreaking visual method to make reading characters... -
Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy by David Stuttard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86The Greek myths have a universal appeal, reaching far beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific settings: Thebes dominates the tragedy of... -
Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the... -
Islamic Design Workbook by Eric Broug
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80In this inventive interpretation of the popular colouring book concept, Islamic design expert Eric Broug helps readers to create their own patterns, based on compositions from across the Islamic... -
Who Shot Van Gogh?: Facts and counterfacts about the world's most famous artist by Alan Turnbull
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Fact or fiction? An imaginative collection of statements about Vincent van Gogh that challenges what we think we know about the artist's much mythologized existence. Van Gogh is the most famous... -
Curtain Up!: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House by Royal Opera House
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A behind-the-scenes tour of the magnificent Royal Opera House in London, thirty minutes before curtain up, led by Figaro the cat. It's opening night of The Nutcracker, and the performers at the... -
A World History of Women Photographers by 9780500025413
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.60A magnificently illustrated showcase of the work of 300 women photographers from all over the world, from the invention of the medium to the dawn of the 21st century. As in many fields of art... -
Pop-up Earth by Annabelle Buxton
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Open this book and explore the wonders of our planet! Find out how the Earth was formed, where life first evolved and when the first humans arrived. Explore its many treasures, travel beneath its... -
Branding In Five and a Half Steps by Michael Johnson 9780500518960
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.78Michael Johnson is one of the world's leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic,... -
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader by Maura Reilly 9780500295557
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) was one of the most pioneering and provocative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her groundbreaking article, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?',... -
Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond by Patrick Mauries
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.75The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting. In... -
Railways: A History in Drawings by Christopher Valkoinen
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.60The advent of railways in Britain was a fundamental part of its economic and social revolution in the 19th century, with technical advances that were the envy of the world and chronicled from the... -
Wayne Thiebaud: Draftsman by Isabelle Dervaux
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.95Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career in the 1940s as an... -
The World According to Karl: The Wit and Wisdom of Karl Lagerfeld by Jean-Christophe Napias
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Karl Lagerfeld is a modern master of couture. He is also famously outspoken: his wise, surprising statements pop up like offbeat news flashes. This collection of quotations pays homage to the... -
Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era by Martha L. Carter
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.68The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, houses one of the world's most spectacular collections of ancient silver vessels and other objects made of precious metals. Dating from the centuries following... -
The New Pavilions by Philip Jodidio 9780500343227
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.58Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen... Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities... -
Lee Krasner: Living Colour by Eleanor Nairne 9780500297582
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90A monograph on the life and work of an outstanding abstract expressionist painter, now emerging as one of the most important women artists of the 20th century. Lee Krasner, a pioneer of Abstract... -
Alive: Designing Radical Life Madeline Schwartzman 9780500026861
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05A timely examination of a wide range of projects exploring the boundaries of what it means to be alive, speculating on what 'life' is, and how humankind will (or will not) fit into a new order of... -
Subway Art by Martha Cooper
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.25In 1984, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the imagination of a generation with Subway Art, a groundbreaking book documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted... -
The Street Photographer's Manual by David Gibson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.38The Street Photographer's Manual celebrates the spirit of street photography with inspiring instruction to help you capture the perfect urban moment. Through twenty simple project tutorials on... -
Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design by Frances Ambler
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.16The mid-20th century was one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design. Drawing on the inventive style of the era, this range of gift products features exclusive... -
The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Berge by Robert Murphy
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.75The star pieces from fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's art collection - including works by Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse - have been unveiled in the Grand Palais, Paris, ahead of what... -
Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity by Sarah Vowles
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75The first exploration of Piranesi's work as a draughtsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum.The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known... -
The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey 9780500297605
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much? While these questions are perpetually... -
A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Assortment by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 9780500023020
Booksplease Price: £14.72A Shakespearean Motley is a delightful cabinet of Shakespearean curiosities, arranged in a straightforward alphabetical order, that will inform, enthuse, intrigue and amuse anyone who would like to... -
The Crown Jewels: The Official Illustrated History by Anna Keay
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.30The Tower of London has over two million visitors a year, with the Crown Jewels as its centrepiece. This paperback edition of the official illustrated history of the Crown Jewels, the most famous... -
Carpets of the Art Deco Era by Susan Day
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.63The design revolutions of the early 20th century were woven into the very fabric of the carpets and rugs of that era. Carpets of the Art Deco Era, previously published as Art Deco and Modernist...