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Sacred Sites. The Library of Esoterica Jessica Hundley 9783836590600
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.00A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Essays,... -
Manet Gilles Neret 9783836535106
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition... -
Mick Rock. The Rise of David Bowie. 1972–1973 by Taschen 9783836596220
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.39A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and... -
Dark City. The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann 9783836560764
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a... -
The Little Big Butt Book by Dian Hanson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79How can we pack so much big booty into such a tiny and inexpensive package? Sorry, but it's a trade secret we can't divulge, except to say that shoehorns and spandex were involved. The original Big... -
A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration by 9783836577397
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a... -
Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities by 9783836540353
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £118.51The Wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities," saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of... -
Information Graphics. 45th Ed. Sandra Rendgen 9783836599665
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to... -
Great Escapes: Europe. The Hotel Book. 2019 Edition by Angelika Taschen 9783836578073
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85Through ancient wonders, world capitals, and tiny places with infectious personalities, Europe packs some serious travel punches. The world's second-smallest continent makes up for size with its... -
Great Escapes: Italy. The Hotel Book. 2019 Edition by Angelika Taschen 9783836578059
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence,... -
The Little Big Book of Legs by Dian Hanson 9783836580366
Booksplease Price: £20.07Many loved The Big Book of Legs but some found it just too darn big, weighing in at nearly seven pounds. True, it was packed with shapely legs spanning six decades, from the first shy emergence of... -
Homes for Our Time Vol. 3 Philip Jodidio 9783836594493
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57Peeking behind the scenes of innovative homes, Philip Jodidio illustrates the evolution of today's global architecture-from Samira Rathod's House of Concrete Experiments in India to Tetro's Acucena... -
Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today Bernd Evers 9783836599627
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.00If you've ever wondered what goes through architects' minds when they design buildings, you'll be happy to know that there's no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity... -
A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration. 40th Ed. by 9783836591911
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.05In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a... -
Midcentury Memories. The Anonymous Project by Lee Shulman 9783836596640
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.68Rewind back to the midcentury, before the age of Instagram and Snapchat, where people were using 35mm cameras loaded with color film to document both monumental and mundane moments in their lives... -
All-American Ads of the 2000s Steven Heller 9783836568029
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.52Post-9/11, America's sense of invincibility was shaken. The dotcom bubble had burst, there was war with Iraq, and eco-angst was becoming mainstream, as evidenced by impressive sales of the Toyota... -
Logo Beginnings by 9783836582285
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £52.88Countless global brands, including Rolex, BMW, Louis Vuitton, and the New York Yankees, still use logos that were designed over 100 years ago. Yet there has never been a monograph devoted to the... -
Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 5: 1970s At the Newsstand by Dian Hanson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85Pubic hair appeared on the American newsstand in 1970 compliments of Penthouse magazine. Within a year it was everywhere, and in 1975 Midwest redneck Larry Flynt parted the hair and made the pink... -
Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 3: 1960s At the Newsstand by Dian Hanson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85Sexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women's liberation, The Pill, Black Panthers, hippies; all these words and phrases entered our language in the turbulent 1960s. The decade... -
The Little Big Book of Breasts by Dian Hanson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The Little Big Book of Breasts features over 150 celebrated big breast models from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, including Michelle Angelo, Virginia Bell, Roxanne Brewer, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine... -
Cabins. 40th Ed. Philip Jodidio 9783836593755
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a cabin... -
Bruegel by Rainer Hagen
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well... -
Cubism by Anne Ganteführer-Trier 9783836505390
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.73Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its... -
J. C. Volkamer. The Book of Citrus Fruits. 45th Ed. Taschen 9783836594783
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Have you ever thought of citrus fruits as celestial bodies, angelically suspended in the sky? Perhaps not, but J. C. Volkamer (1644-1720) did-commissioning an extravagant and breathtaking series of... -
Great Escapes Italy. The Hotel Book. 45th Ed. Angelika Taschen 9783754400791
Booksplease Price: £39.34To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence,... -
Mackintosh by Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836561600
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his... -
Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by Susan Pack 9783836589529
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.35At the intersection of the visual, graphic, and cinematic arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 posters from the ... -
Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World. Vol. 2. 40th Ed. Philip Jodidio 9783836599573
Booksplease Price: £38.66Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution and raises questions: What... -
Great Yoga Retreats. 2020 Edition by 9783836582131
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85Looking for a vacation that leaves you relaxed, restored, and uplifted? In this gorgeous updated guide, Angelika Taschen gathers the most exquisite and inspirational yoga retreats around the world,... -
Helmut Newton. Legacy by 9783836584586
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £56.20Virtually unparalleled in scope and spanning more than five decades, the photography of visionary Helmut Newton (1920-2004) reached millions through publication in magazines like Vogue and Elle. His... -
1000 Nudes. A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939 by Hans-Michael Koetzle 9783836554466
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04The history of nude photography is the history of people's fascination with the topic. Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the only subject that has enthralled photographers,... -
Living in Asia. 40th Ed. Sunil Sethi 9783836599238
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative-words cannot do justice to Asia's most beautiful interiors. Whether it's a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand,... -
Untitled by 9783836584975
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £59.52Whether it's diamond-encrusted grills, oversized "truck" style chains, bust-down Rolex and Patek Philippe watches or a Tiffany necklace, jewelry is a cornerstone of hip-hop culture. Glittering,... -
The Big Book of Pussy by Dian Hanson 9783836521826
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24First, The Big Book of Breasts, then The Big Penis Book, The Big Book of Legs, and the weighty Big Butt Book. What could follow but an in-depth exploration of the female pudendum, that coveted... -
Edward S. Curtis. The North American Indian. Complete Portfolios Peter Walther 9783836596732
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.21Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) dedicated his entire life to a project all his own, to use a camera to preserve the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of North America. For three decades,... -
Frederic Chaubin. CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th E by 9783836587792
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frederic Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in... -
Peter Lindbergh. Untold Stories Felix Kramer 9783836579919
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.74The invitation to create his own show Untold Stories at Kunstpalast Dusseldorf Kunstpalast served Lindbergh as a blank canvas for the his unrestrained vision and creativity. Given artistic freedom,... -
The Little Big Book of Pussy by Dian Hanson 9783836578936
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79From the time The Big Penis Book was published, readers anticipated The Big Book of Pussy. Granted, perhaps not the same readers, but the seed had been planted and the calls and letters began flowing... -
Peter Lindbergh. Untold Stories Felix Krämer 9783836597005
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the Dusseldorf Kunstpalast served as a blank canvas for the photographer's... -
Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World. Vol. 2. 40th Ed. Philip Jodidio 9783836599566
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution and raises questions: What...