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Gropius by 9783836544344
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.36Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a... -
Renoir Peter H. Feist 9783836531092
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.07One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his... -
1000 Chairs. Updated version by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.89More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color... -
1000 Lights by Charlotte Fiell 9783836546768
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.64Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th century's most... -
Piano by Philip Jodidio 9783836536462
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.61While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their... -
Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art by Salima Ikram
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.72A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most... -
Gio Ponti by Graziella Roccella
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.36Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and... -
Rockwell by Karal Ann Marling
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.60An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity of commissioned editorial, commercial, and... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer 9783836555982
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $77.43A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic environment, as well as for... -
Cezanne Ulrike Becks-Malorny 9783836530170
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.60In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of... -
Calatrava. Complete Works 1979-today by Philip Jodidio 9783836572415
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $77.43Santiago Calatrava is a world-renowned architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, he... -
Klimt by Gilles Neret 9783836558075
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty,... -
William Claxton. Jazzlife by Joachim E. Berendt 9783836542937
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $77.43In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted musicologist Joachim E. Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz. Through music halls and marching bands, side streets and subways,... -
Ellen von Unwerth. Fraulein. 40th Ed. by Ingrid Sischy
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.32Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world's most original and successful fashion... -
Gauguin Ingo F. Walther 9783836532235
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his... -
Logo Design. Global Brands by Julius Wiedemann
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.72Following up on the best-selling Bibliotheca Universalis logo manual, this second volume focuses on corporate identity. In a globalized world, more and more symbols convey values such as trust,... -
Hokusai by Rhiannon Paget 9783836563376
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also significantly... -
Five in One. Modern Art Movements Taschen 9783754401453
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.54A comprehensive volume covering five seminal genres that shaped art, from the late 19th century and well into the 20th: Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art... -
The Gourmand's Mushroom. A Collection of Stories & Recipes Taschen 9783836586610
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $39.16Mushrooms-psychoactive, medicinal, or delicious-have fascinated us for millennia. They have facilitated spiritual quests in ancient and modern times, and their whimsical forms have inspired artists... -
Robert Doisneau. Paris. 45th Ed. Taschen 9783754404188
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.85As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in... -
Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia. 45th Ed. Taschen 9783754403419
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.85Sebastiao Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live... -
Botticelli by Barbara Deimling
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro Botticelli (1444/45-1510) was well placed for fame... -
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schutze 9783836568630
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $35.76Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the... -
The Package Design Book by Pentawards 9783836555524
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.72Packaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, it can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by... -
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work by Peter Walther
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.72Photographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with... -
Neutra. Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht 9783836512442
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $77.43Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on postwar architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being... -
Goya by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain's most revered and controversial... -
de Lempicka by Gilles Néret 9783836532273
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.88Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set... -
The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories & Recipes by 9783836585897
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $39.16The Gourmand's Egg Book As Dali's muse, Hitchcock's nightmare, and humble ingredient, the eternal egg weaves a fascinating tale through the history of culture. The first volume in The... -
Dalí. Les dîners de Gala by Taschen 9783836595841
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.15"Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste ... If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at... -
The Art of Pin-up. 40th Ed. by Taschen 9783836588119
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.29Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George... -
The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed. by Taschen 9783836588072
Booksplease Price: $55.13Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design-with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea-has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist... -
Prouvé by Nils Peters
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.76French-born Jean Prouve (1901-1984) was the 20th century's leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris... -
Magritte by Marcel Paquet 9783836503570
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.27From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Rene Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing,... -
Miro by Janis Mink
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miro (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and... -
Steve McCurry. Animals by Reuel Golden 9783836597036
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.62In Animals, we discover a different side to the famed photographer who skillfully explores animals' complex relationship with humans and the environment.Tenderness abounds, particularly in scenes of... -
Contemporary Brick Buildings by Philip Jodidio 9783836592598
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $59.65Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired brick first made its appearance in about 3500 BC. Since... -
Mies van der Rohe by Peter Gossel
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.27Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and... -
Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 4: 1960s Under the Counter by Dian Hanson
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $50.12In 1958 Milton Luros left his New York job designing and illustrating detective pulp magazines for North Hollywood, California. A year later, with a loan from an underworld figure, he founded a... -
Eames by Peter Gossel
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.61The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also...