20th Century History

This lavishly illustrated book brings to light the diverse work and the growing influence of this early 20th-century Japanese artist and designer. Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942), little known until recent years,...

From the Studebaker and the Slinky to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in...

Alec Cobbe (b.1945) established his reputation as a conservator of Old Master paintings before specializing in the redecoration and rearrangement of historic interiors as homes for masterpieces. His list of...

This is the story of a woman who played a significant role in the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. A working woman, wife and mother, Sonia Delauney was married...

An anarchic, intimate, lushly illustrated look at the clothes and lives of the Bloomsbury Group Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back...

The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown a mysterious coastal town, not found...

Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts. Starting with...

Jean-Pierre Vorlet's images are everywhere, taken all over the world but establishing common ground, transferable and translatable. In spite of a snatch of Italian or a word or two in...

This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...

Author: Naomi StungoFormat: Hardback, 128mm x 184mm, 300g, 112 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2023A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of...