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The Art of Looking Up
Author: Catherine McCormack Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to...
The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico
Author: Ian Volner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall"...
Tile Makes the Room: Good Design from Heath Ceramics
Author: Robin Petravic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "beautiful, richly photographic lifestyle book on interior design using tile from Heath Ceramics" "Heath Ceramics is an incredibly well-regarded, iconic housewares...
Designing With Light
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Author: Victoria Meyers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 An in-depth look at how light is used in contemporary architecture to delineate form, color, and space, with particular attention to...
Renzo Piano
Author: Aurora Cuito Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Renzo Piano (Genoa, 1937) studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan. Since winning the competition to design the Centre Pompidou in...
Oxford
Author: Matthew Rice Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of...
The Australian Ugliness
Author: Robin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Christos Tsiolkas There can be few other nations which are less certain than Australia as to what...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
Author: Tom Nancollas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in...
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
Author: Simon Thurley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array...
The Architecture of Happiness
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Highly acclaimed writer and philosopher Alain de Botton turns his attention to interior design and architecture In The...
Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past
Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Chinese Bridges, Ronald G. Knapp, one of the foremost experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, gives these under-regarded...
James of St George and the Castles of the Welsh Wars
Author: Malcolm Hislop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 James of St George has a reputation as one of the most significant castle builders of the Middle Ages. His origins...
Smart Home Extensions
Author: Carles Broto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Architecture and design of home extensions. This book is a collection of 32 extension projects carried out on country houses and urban...
Contemporary Architecture in China
Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Architecture and civil engineering have long been central elements in China's external image and national party propaganda. When it comes to technological superiority in...
Chinese Houses of South East Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers
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Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Over a period of several years, noted Chinese cultural historian Ronald G. Knapp traveled throughout Southeast Asia, searching out homes...
Suzanne Kasler: Edited Style
Author: Suzanne Kasler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Heralded as one of America's most influential interior designers, Suzanne Kasler has always had her finger on the pulse of emerging...
The Staircase: The Architecture of Ascent
Author: Oscar Tusquets Blanca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster
Author: Alan Partridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs...
Alvaro Silva
Author: Giovanni Leoni Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 The aim of the collection is to offer a series of short monographs which, though brief, nevertheless deal with all aspects...
Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning
Author: Le Corbusier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again...
New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts, and Blooms
Author: Eric P. Nash Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 New York City, arguably the world's Art Deco capital, is well known for its striking and still iconic towers that...
Sea Pools: 66 saltwater sanctuaries from around the world
Author: Chris Romer-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A celebration of sea swimming - looking at the architecture, history and social significance of sea pools around the world. The...
Island Follies: Romantic Homes of the Bahamas: The Tropical Architecture of Henry Melich
Author: Alastair Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A celebration of Henry Melich's wonderfully whimsical and romantic island escapes, which continue to inspire the work of designers today. Island...
100 20th-Century Shops
Author: Twentieth Century Society Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A showcase of Britain's most significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond. 100 20th-Century Shops is a fascinating insight...
Stephen Sills: A Vision for Design
Stephen Sills-named a "titan of design" by Elle Decor as well as a "dean of American design" by Architectural Digest-returns with a third spectacular book. Stephen Sills is a true...
Illusion in Design: New Trends in Architecture and Interiors
Author: Paul Gunther Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This magical volume presents the startling world of illusion in design as employed by today's architects, interior designers, furniture designers, and...
Neeson Murcutt Neille: Setting Architecture
Author: Anna Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Neeson Murcutt Neille demonstrate a deeply empathetic approach to making architecture, one that is integrally connected to landscape, history, identity, culture...
Furniture for Interior Design
Author: Sam Booth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This comprehensive, practical guide explores how contemporary furniture is used within interior design to define a space, create division...
Joanna Wood: Interiors for Living
Author: Joanna Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 ***DELAYED PUBLICATION NEW JACKET*** With a reputation built over 25 years, Joanna Wood is recognised as one of Britain's leading figures...
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow
The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that...
You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City
Author: Katharine Harmon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with...
Where Architects Stay in Europe: Lodgings for Design Enthusiasts
Author: Sibylle KramerFormat: Hardback, 190mm x 230mm, 720g, 208 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2018Vibrant cities or quiet idyllic landscapes, Mediterranean coasts or alpine mountain ranges: Europe's unique cul -...
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
White and Faded: Restoring Beauty in Your Home and Life
Author: Janet Parrella-Van Den Berg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The only thing more beautiful than home transformation is personal transformation. Bring new life into your home and your...
New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts, and Blooms
Author: Eric P. Nash Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 New York City, arguably the world's Art Deco capital, is well known for its striking and still iconic towers that...
Unbuilt: Radical visions of a future that never arrived
Author: Christopher Beanland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A fascinating survey of unbuilt and abandoned architectural projects from all over the world, by great architects such as Frank Lloyd...
Byoung Cho: My Life as An Architect in Seoul
The second book in the 'My Life as an Architect' series, looking at the Seoul buildings that have shaped the practice and outlook of the celebrated Korean architect Byoung Cho....
Grain Elevators
These photographs of grain elevators in America, Germany, Belgium, and France are a major addition to the Bechers' ongoing documentation of the vanishing buildings that once defined the industrial landscape...
A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their feminine modernity, both culturally and...
The Story of Romanesque Architecture
Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features Romanesque architecture's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs,...
Building Community: New Apartment Architecture
Author: Michael Webb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a...
Dan Cruickshank's Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World
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Fashioning Design: Lee Broom
Author: Becky Sunshine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The first illustrated monograph presenting the work of British designer Lee Broom, founder of the eponymous brand and celebrated for his...
Pevsner: The Early Life: Germany and Art
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Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Author: John Grindrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
Living by the Ocean: Contemporary Houses by the Sea
Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An exhilarating collection of today's most remarkable homes built in awe-inspiring coastal locations around the world. White-sand beaches, jaw-droppingly sheer cliff...
Sacred Places
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Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster
Author: Alan Partridge Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative'...