Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

Gorgeous, high-end art tomes and collectable rare books at a fraction of the original price, selected for quality and scholarship and sheer beauty. Some are "coffee table" art books too or colouring books for adults, how to create art for yourself and learn from the experts or the Masters.

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Well, I am a Sunday painter.  It’s just that I paint every other day of the week as well.  - L.S. Lowry

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100 MIDCENTURY CHAIRS AND THEIR STORIES
LUCY RYDER RICHARDSON    Book Number: 92835
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £6.99
Product format: Hardback

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With a 'chair timeline', including the very best of European, Scandinavian, American and Japanese design, here are the top 100 most interesting, most controversial, or simply most beautiful chairs ...
MAKING POTS: A Ceramicist's Guide
STEFAN ANDERSSON    Book Number: 92853
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback

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Step-by-step the potter, Stefan Andersson, guides us on the potter's wheel, glaze manufacture and firing, sharing his techniques and know-how. Stefan also describes how to set up your own workshop,...
SPRING LIGHT: The Anglepoise Story
JONATHAN GLANCY    Book Number: 92856
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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Shine a light on the design history of the famous Anglepoise lamp with its angled neck, now used by Pixar animation to bounce around and make us laugh. It is a hallmark of British design. In 1932 ...
TATE INTRODUCTIONS: Matisse
JULIETTE RIZZI    Book Number: 92512
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Paperback

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Matisse's late collage, The Snail, is one of the most striking exhibits at Tate Modern, where its colourful roulade of shapes encapsulates the snail's slow movement. Other works from Matisse's late...
CHOCOLATE
MARC LAGRANGE    Book Number: 92911
Published price: £45
Bibliophile price: £20.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sophisticated nude photographs shot by Marc Lagrange with cool-brown tone coloration, these rare Polaroid 100 Chocolate images are from the last types of film ever to be produced before the Polaroi...
COLORAMA
GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM    Book Number: 92913
Published price: £45
Bibliophile price: £15.00
Product format: Hardback

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A rather special photography book showcasing the Kodak camera company's finest examples of their 565 Coloramas. They were massive backlit transparencies which measured 60ft wide by 18ft tall and c...
HOLLYWOOD ROYALE: Out of the School of Los Angeles
MATTHEW ROLSTON    Book Number: 92915
Published price: £80
Bibliophile price: £28.00
Product format: Hardback

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100 mesmerising photographs of pop stars to movie stars, TV personalities to socialites, Andy Warhol's protégé presents a virtual 'who's who' of 1980s celebrity. The Beverly Hills California Holly...
STARS OF THE CAUCASUS: Silk Embroideries From Azerbaijan
ALBERTO BORALEVI ET AL    Book Number: 92918
Published price: £65
Bibliophile price: £22.50
Product format: Hardback

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Rare 2017 first edition by a selection of world leading experts and scholars, this is the first book on the subject of antique Azerbaijan silk embroideries containing previously unpublished researc...
RICH DESIGNS OF CLARICE CLIFF
Richard Green    Book Number: 92971
Published price: £55
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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Rare 1995 first edition, this exciting volume presents both a fascinating insight into the life of Clarice Cliff, the innovative designer of her time, and is the most detailed reference of her desi...
GREAT PYRAMID 2590 BC ONWARDS
FRANCK MONNIER & D. LIGHTBODY    Book Number: 92526
Published price: £22.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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Another in the quirky and reliable Haynes series by an archaeologist and scholar specialising in the landscapes, technologies and cultures of Antiquity, particularly from Ancient Egypt, Greece, the...
HIROSHIGE & EISEN:
ANDREAS MARKS & R. PAGET    Book Number: 82995
Bibliophile price: £125.00
Product format: Hardback

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The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage be...
MASSIMO LISTRI CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI    Book Number: 88323
Published price: £
Bibliophile price: £125.00
Product format: Hardback

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Exquisitely bound in a satin cloth decorated with an Archimboldo design of the head with the face made of flowers and plants and this outsize volume has a pink satin pagemarker and double gate cent...
TSARINA'S LOST TREASURE
GERALD EASTER, MARA VORHEES    Book Number: 92738
Published price: $18.95
Bibliophile price: £5.75
Product format: Paperback

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'Catherine the Great, A Golden Age Masterpiece and A Legendary Shipwreck' is the sub-title to this riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for the Q...
HARDY FAMILY OF ARTISTS
KIMBER HARDY    Book Number: 92921
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £17.00
Product format: Hardback

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Frederick Daniel, George, Heywood, James and their descendants are the celebrated Hardy family of artists, some of the leading genre painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Heywood Hardy wa...
TASTE: The Secret Meaning Of Things
STEPHEN BAYLEY    Book Number: 92923
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the thorny and sometimes elitest topic of 'Taste' with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food. This new edition of a...
HELMUT NEWTON SUMO 20th ANNIVERSARY
HELMUT NEWTON & JUNE NEWTON    Book Number: 86802
Bibliophile price: £100.00
Product format: Hardback

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One of the most influential photographers of all time, Newton first achieved international fame in the 1970s while working principally for French Vogue and became celebrated for his controversial s...
REN HANG
EDITED BY DIAN HANSON    Book Number: 81874
Bibliophile price: £40.00
Product format: Hardback

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Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefr...
DAVID HOCKNEY: A Chronology
DAVID HOCKNEY    Book Number: 88648
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of colour, explorer of image and perception, for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of ex...
COCA-COLA ART OF JIM HARRISON
JIM HARRISON    Book Number: 93012
Published price: £36.95
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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The collection in this book is divided between the seasons. Coca-Cola scenes in spring and summer include a covered wooden bridge with the Coca-Cola logo painted along its length. The interior of a...
GOLDEN COMPASS: His Dark Materials Book I
PHILIP PULLMAN    Book Number: 93016
Published price: $37.99
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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Fans of the trilogy His Dark Materials will love this sumptuously illustrated edition of the first volume, with evocative modern drawings in colour to illustrate every stage in Lyra's epic story. T...
LEGACY OF THE MASTERS: Painting and Calligraphy
WILL KWIATKOWSKI    Book Number: 93024
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £27.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sixty gorgeous works of Islamic art, created in the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires, are reproduced in colour to the highest specification as full-page illustrations in this exceptional ...
MODERN VINTAGE ILLUSTRATION
MARTIN DAWBER    Book Number: 93027
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Paperback

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In this retro age, the work of classical illustrators has been taken up and given a new twist by modern designers, and this stunning visual feast shows how Dali, Rodchenko, Rauschenberg, Blake, Kli...
PRIDE AND PERSECUTION: Jan Steen's Old Testament Scenes
LAURA PARKER    Book Number: 93031
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Paperback

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First published to accompany an exhibition of art of the same name at the at the Barbour Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham in October 2017 to January 2018, this rare exhibition catal...
ASHRIDGE 12 WATERCOLOUR PENCILS
ASHRIDGE ART    Book Number: 93066
Bibliophile price: £6.25
Product format: Unknown

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Dissolve and blend when brushed with water, these premium quality pencils are in the following rainbow colours: yellow, fluorescent orange, pink, red, bright green, dark green, marine blue, navy bl...
ACRYLIC PAINT SET: Premium Quality
ASHRIDGE ART    Book Number: 93067
Bibliophile price: £12.50
Product format: Unknown

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Incredible value for money for all budding artists this set of 12 tubes of quick-drying, high opacity 22mm or .74 fl. oz. tubes. The colours range from bright white, lemon yellow, yellow ochre, cr...
WATER LILIES: Claude Monet
DR MARINA LINARES    Book Number: 93082
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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A heavyweight quality Könemann multilingual edition by the well regarded art historian. The cycles of Water Lilies are a highlight in Claude Monet's work and found in collections around the world....
DEREK BOSHIER RETHINK/RE-ENTRY
EDITED BY PAUL GORMAN    Book Number: 93088
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £17.50
Product format: Hardback

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At Yeovil School of Art in Somerset from 1953-1957, Derek Boshier demonstrated the graphic abilities - via a sketchbook of pencil and ink drawings, some coloured with crayon or gouache - of local s...
MAKE GREAT ART ON YOUR IPAD
ALISON JARDINE    Book Number: 93108
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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You don't have to be an artist to achieve great results on your iPad, and this refreshingly accessible book is perfect for skilled artists and aspiring creatives alike. There are step-by-step proj...
RENOIR: An Intimate Biography
BARBARA EHRLICH WHITE    Book Number: 93126
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £12.50
Product format: Hardback

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A big glamorous heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication with 105 illustrations by the Tufts University professor and friend of Renoir's great granddaughter Sophie. The joy that permeates August Re...
UNCOVERED: Revolutionary Magazine Covers
IAN BIRCH    Book Number: 93141
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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This book is a sheer delight, showcasing over 100 magazine covers from the late 1950s onwards, with a commentary on the inside story of each by editors and designers. Magazine covers need to make t...
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