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Guy de Rougemont Gay Gassman 9782376660941
Booksplease Price: £61.97A multidisciplinary artist of the 20th century, Guy de Rougemont (1935-2021) flourished throughout his career in painting, sculpture, the decorative arts and ceramics, in a constant play on colour,... -
Pucci de Rossi by Nancy Huston 9782915542936
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.49An artist-designer who defies classification, Pucci de Rossi (1947-2013) was a pillar of the European art scene in the 1980s. Originally from Verona, and trained by the American sculptor H. B... -
Nanda Vigo. L'Espace Intérieur. by Constance Rubini 9782376660712
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.66Born in Milan and trained at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, Nanda Vigo (1936-2020) made a name for herself in the 1960s with her cross-disciplinary approach to art, architecture and design. An... -
Paris, Pearl Capital Léonard Pouy 9782376660934
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.34If Paul Levi and Jean-Paul Poirot are to be believed, rue Lafayette, which has been home to the majority of Parisian gem dealers since the 19th century, is thought to have been home to almost 300... -
Le Corbusier's studio by Didier Teissonière 9782376660910
Booksplease Price: £43.61This book is the first to explore the history of Le Corbusier's studio at 35 rue de Sèvres in Paris, known as 35S. It looks at the many artists with whom Le Corbusier worked, including Charlotte... -
Abraham and Rol by Patrick Favardin 9782915542905
Booksplease Price: £31.26"It is a rare species, but it exists," as '60s art critic Pascal Renous pointed out on the subject of artistic couples. This designer-decorator duo of Janine Abraham and Dirk-Jan Rol met at Jacques... -
Crafts: Today's Anthology for Tomorrow's Crafts Fabien Petiot 9782376660071
Booksplease Price: £50.14This exceptional anthology, which proposes a panorama of the evolution of crafts from 1945 to the present day, brings together a selection of over 70 texts from five continents. These texts are... -
French Art Nouveau Ceramics by Paul Arthur 9782915542653
Booksplease Price: £62.77A census conducted in 1901 indicated the existence of some 209 producers of pottery in France, employing a total of around 5,800 full-time labourers. This great activity stimulated a parallel... -
Marc Held: 50 Years of Design by Michele Champenois 9782915542639
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.94From the white plastic bed for the Prisunic catalogue (1966) to the Culbuto armchair issued by Knoll, and from the Lip watch to the private apartments of the Elysee Palace, Paris, (1983), the... -
Oriental Dreams by Mathias Ary Jan
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £53.55This beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 colour reproductions, showcases many of the greatest masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art. During this period, colonization, and a revolution... -
Le Corbusier and the Gras Lamp Didier Teissonniere 9782915542707
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.00This book traces the history of an encounter between a remarkable invention, half-industrial half-design object, and one of the most famous architects of the 20th century. Created in 1921, the Gras... -
Eyre de Lanux by Michele Champenois 9782915542646
Booksplease Price: £38.09Born into the American aristocracy, Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux abandoned high society to pursue an artistic career. Starting her training with Constantin Brancusi, she then arrived in Paris in 1919,... -
Pierre Bonnard and His Dogs Stéphane Guégan 9782376661139
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.88Pierre Bonnard and His Dogs offers a fresh perspective on the painter's work through the central place his dogs held within it. Present in his photographs, drawings, and paintings-from his Nabi... -
Caillebotte: Painting is a Serious Game Amaury Chardeau 9782376660958
Booksplease Price: £32.70The life of Gustave Caillebotte is shrouded in legend - untimely death, hidden genius, generous patron of Monet, Pissaro, Sisley and Degas - making him one of the most appreciated and mysterious... -
Intensive Beyrouth: Youssef Thome by Karine Dana
Booksplease Price: £19.18"Building in Lebanon is my way of taking a position with regard to the war." This statement by the French-Lebanese architect Youssef Tohme is key to getting into and grasping Intensive Beirut. ... -
Vincent Dubourg by Anne Bony
Booksplease Price: £38.09"Abandoned, forgotten form is reborn in the arms of an all-embracing nature, an envelope within which the origin of the human being, of a society gives us a sensibility, a presence of a fertility." -... -
Olivier Gagnere by Michele Champenois
Booksplease Price: £38.09Olivier Gagnere appeared on the French design scene in the 1980s. Through his contact with the Memphis group of Ettore Sottsass in Milan, he developed his spirit of fantasy, great formal liberty,... -
Marc Held - Skopelos Michele Champenois 9782915542912
Booksplease Price: £32.06Marc Held entered history in 1965 with his famous Culbuto armchair, followed in 1966 by his furniture manufactured by Prisunic. Over a period of fifty years, he created some 150 furniture pieces,... -
Modernist Beirut by Guillaume Excoffier 9782376660798
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £77.36From the 1950s, Beirut and Lebanon have been a veritable laboratory of architectural modernity in the Middle East, calling on the greatest national and international architects. Institutions and... -
Pierre Guariche by Delphine Jacob
Booksplease Price: £45.71Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in postwar France. He created a prolific body of work during what is known as the Thirty Glorious Years... -
Rene Buthaud: Ceramiste Art deco (1886-1986) Francoise Cruege de Forceville 9782376660781
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.13A major figure in decorative arts during the inter-war periods Rene Buthaud (1886-1986) developed an interest in ceramics upon finishing his studies at the Ecole des beaux-arts de Paris and the Ecole... -
Chess Design by Romain Morandi 9782376660668
Booksplease Price: £45.03A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also... -
Fadia Ahmad. Beyrouth | Beirut Pascale Le Thorel 9782376660262
Booksplease Price: £41.50Spanish-born photographer Fadia Ahma (b.1975) lives and works in Lebanon. Her poetic series of photographs of Beirut eloquently captures the street life of that resilient city; merchants on street... -
Vera Szekely Daniel Leger 9782376660330
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £53.55After training as a graphic designer in Hungary, the plastic artist Vera Szekely (1919-1994), a member of the Szekely-Borderie ceramicist collective, tackled work in clay, metal, wood and glass to... -
Gaelle Lauriot-Prevost, Design by Michele Champenois 9782915542851
Booksplease Price: £35.48Dominique Perrault is recognised as one of the outstanding architects of the 21st century. In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale prize. The general public knows him as the... -
Designers and Creators of the '80s - '90s: Furniture and Interiors by Patrick Favardin
Booksplease Price: £50.14In line with the works on decorators of the 1940s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, this book plunges us into the world of '80s and '90s. These have witnessed unprecedented experiments in the world of design... -
Nicolas Eekman Emmanuel Breon 9782376660354
Booksplease Price: £46.72Nicolas Eekman (1889-1973) is the heir of the great creators of his native Flanders, from Jerome Bosh to James Ensor, as well as one of the representatives of the School of Paris. Born in Brussels... -
Michel Buffet by Guillemette Delaporte
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £43.96Michel Buffet is known as a pioneer in the mid-century industrial design movement in France. His work embodies the aesthetics of the 'Thirty Glorious Years' of French design from 1945 to 1975, which... -
The Vendome Column David Bordes 9782376660545
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.83In 2015, the Vendome column regained its initial splendour thanks to a long restoration campaign supported by the Vendome committee and particularly the Ritz. During the dismantling of the... -
Public Administration: Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge, updated edition Norma M. Riccucci 9781647127275
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.07This updated classic on public administration highlights advances in the fieldSince the publication of the first edition of Public Administration in 2010, this field has seen numerous advances in and... -
My Adventures as an Illustrator: The Definitive Edition Norman Rockwell 9780789213112
Booksplease Price: £23.75The life of America's most beloved artist, in his own words-back in print with restored text and drawings, new illustrations, and more The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell... -
Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control, Third Editon Norman A. Anderson 9780849398711
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65The perennially bestselling third edition of Norman A. Anderson's Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control provides an outstanding and practical reference for both students and... -
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Third Edition Norman Fenton 9781439838228
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.99A Framework for Managing, Measuring, and Predicting Attributes of Software Development Products and ProcessesReflecting the immense progress in the development and use of software metrics in the past... -
Primary Preventive Dentistry: Pearson New International Edition Norman Harris 9781292040615
RRP: £81.99Booksplease Price: £74.84For all introductory, clinical, and preventive courses in dental hygiene and dental assisting that cover preventive dental modalities and concepts. Organized for consistency, coherence, and... -
François Pompon Liliane Colas 9782376660620
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.48This monograph on the sculptor Francois Pompon is unpublished in the editorial landscape. It traces the history and work of the artist. The book has two parts, with Pompon's books of accounts: a... -
Joan Mitchell and Her Dogs Laura Morris 9782376661054
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.88Joan Mitchell, an extraordinary figure in 20th-century art, remains one of the most celebrated painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Born in 1925, in Chicago, Illinois, she grew to... -
Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages Hiroshi Takayama 9781032093352
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one...