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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
| LUCY RYDER RICHARDSON Book Number: 92835 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £6.99
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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 ...
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| STEFAN ANDERSSON Book Number: 92853 |
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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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,...
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| JONATHAN GLANCY Book Number: 92856 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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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 ...
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| JULIETTE RIZZI Book Number: 92512 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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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...
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| MARC LAGRANGE Book Number: 92911 |
Published price: £45
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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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...
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| GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM Book Number: 92913 |
Published price: £45
Bibliophile price: £15.00
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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...
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| MATTHEW ROLSTON Book Number: 92915 |
Published price: £80
Bibliophile price: £28.00
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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...
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| ALBERTO BORALEVI ET AL Book Number: 92918 |
Published price: £65
Bibliophile price: £22.50
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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...
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| Richard Green Book Number: 92971 |
Published price: £55
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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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...
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| FRANCK MONNIER & D. LIGHTBODY Book Number: 92526 |
Published price: £22.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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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...
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| ANDREAS MARKS & R. PAGET Book Number: 82995 |
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£125.00
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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...
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| GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI Book Number: 88323 |
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Bibliophile price: £125.00
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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...
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| GERALD EASTER, MARA VORHEES Book Number: 92738 |
Published price: $18.95
Bibliophile price: £5.75
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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...
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| KIMBER HARDY Book Number: 92921 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £17.00
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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...
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| STEPHEN BAYLEY Book Number: 92923 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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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...
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| HELMUT NEWTON & JUNE NEWTON Book Number: 86802 |
Bibliophile price:
£100.00
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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...
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| EDITED BY DIAN HANSON Book Number: 81874 |
Bibliophile price:
£40.00
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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...
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| 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...
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| JIM HARRISON Book Number: 93012 |
Published price: £36.95
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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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...
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| PHILIP PULLMAN Book Number: 93016 |
Published price: $37.99
Bibliophile price: £14.00
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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...
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| WILL KWIATKOWSKI Book Number: 93024 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £27.00
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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 ...
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| MARTIN DAWBER Book Number: 93027 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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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...
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| LAURA PARKER Book Number: 93031 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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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...
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| ASHRIDGE ART Book Number: 93066 |
Bibliophile price:
£6.25
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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...
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| ASHRIDGE ART Book Number: 93067 |
Bibliophile price:
£12.50
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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...
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| 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....
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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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