Design
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Roy G. Biv: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Colour by Jude Stewart
$25.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Design
Why is the sky blue? Why is pink for girls and blue for boys? Why do prisoners wear orange? And why can one colour have so many opposite meanings? If lobsters are a red emblem of privilege how is it that a red flag can also be the banner of Communism? Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into ...Show more
Botany for Gardeners by Geoff Hodge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
Over 3,000 botanical terms explored and explained.
Silk and Cotton - Textiles from the Central Asia That Was by Susan Meller
$80.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
The traditional textiles of Central Asia are an unknown treasure, now revealed in this beautiful and authoritative book. Straddling the legendary Silk Road, this vast region stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Gobi Desert in the east and is home to hundreds of tribes. Whether nomadic or se ...Show more
The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting by Clara Parkes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
In Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting, Clara Parkes shares 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny stories about the role yarn and knitting play in her life. In the process, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters as well as the ways in which knitting can be looked ...Show more
Icons of Vintage Fashion - Definitive Designer Classics at Auction 1900-2000 by Penelope Blanckaert
$59.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
Vintage Fashion 1,000 is an encyclopedic visual journey through women's fashion that features more than 1,000 of the most remarkable vintage items ever sold on the resale market. Classified by decade and accompanied by the history of each item's creation, the 850 articles of clothing and 150 bags depict ...Show more
The Jewels of the Romanovs: Family and Court by Stefano Papi
$90.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of elegance and extravagance for Russias ruling tsars and the wealthy families with whom they were linked by marriage, and nowhere are these tastes more apparent than in the imperial jewels. Stefano Papi uncovers the fascinating stories behind the jewel ...Show more
Big Times - The Legendary Style of Manner Vogue, 1984-1989 by Beda Achermann
$110.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
This book is an exciting step back in time to when Manner Vogue was Germanys leading mens fashion magazine. During Manner Vogues golden age between 1984 and 1989, Swiss-born Beda Achermann was the magazines creative director and left his iconic style on a generation of graphic designers, typographers, p ...Show more
20th Century Jewelry & the Icons of Style by Stefano Papi
$65.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
For many centuries the collecting of precious jewels was the preserve of kings and queens, emperors and maharajahs. But in the aftermath of the First World War, with the fall of several European monarchies, royal gems passed into the hands of a different kind of elite that included celebrities from the ...Show more
Fifth Avenue Style - a Designer's New York Apartment by Howard Slatkin
$80.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
Interior designer Howard Slatkin, founder of the iconic home-fragrance and lifestyle brand Slatkin & Co., is renowned for combining a keen appreciation of beauty with practical know-how. Now, in this gorgeously illustrated book, he opens the doors of his legendary Fifth Avenue apartment and invites ...Show more
The English Country House by James Peill
$60.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Strawberry Hill-style Gothic house in rural Cornwall to a ducal palace (Badminton) to car-crazed Goodwood House, this beautifully illustrated book ...Show more
Axel Vervoordt - Living with Light by Axel Vervoordt
$90.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
The art of harmonious living is extolled in this volume through twenty bespoke interiors designed by the Axel Vervoordt Company. Each room incorporates natural light as an essential component of design, along with other elements water, metal, wood blended with a modern aesthetic and punctuated with fine ...Show more
Alexander McQueen Working Process Photographs by Nick Waplington by Susannah Frankel
$80.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
Alexander McQueen commissioned photographer Nick Waplington in 2008 to document the creation of his Fall 2009 collection from inception to its runway showing. This collection was the last one McQueen would ever show himself. The collection, which he entitled The Horn of Plenty, found McQueen revisiting ...Show more