Puffin By Design: 70 Years of Imagination 1940 - 2010 by Phil Baines
55.00 NZD
Category: Interior Design | Reading Level: very good
Late in 1939 a chance meeting between Penguin founder, Allen Lane, and natural history publisher, Noel Carrington, changed the future of children's publishing with the formation of a series called 'Puffin Picture Books'. The first four titles appeared in 1940 and the series quickly established a reputat ...Show more
On Photography by Susan Sontag
25.00 NZD
26.00 (3% off)
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
Seven Hundred Penguins by Penguin
55.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: good
A collection of Penguin covers from Britain and around the world, "Seven Hundred Penguins" is a celebration of jackets that remain visually distinctive and addictive to us today, from the beautiful to the garish, design classics to design oddities. A full-colour, sensuous delight, with one jacket on eve ...Show more
That Extra Half an Inch : Hair, heels and everything in between by Victoria Beckham with Hadley Freeman
35.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
Whether you've got ÃÂâÂÂÃÂã20 to spend in Top Shop or ÃÂâÂÂÃÂã2,000 to spend at Gucci, looking good isn't about money, it's about style, and style never goes out of fashion. ÃÂâÃÂâ¬ÃÂà ÂThat Extra Half an InchÃÂâÃÂâ¬r is a revealing and practical book on fash ...Show more
The New Zealand Villa: Past and Present (revised edition 2002) by Di Stewart
39.95 NZD
Category: Home Improvement
Thousand's of New Zealanders live in bay villas - and treasure them. A unique style in our architecture, bay villas are still being lovingly restored and renovated to suit our life in teh 21st century. The New Zealand Villa traces the origins and development of these characters houses from the 1880s on ...Show more
Lives of the Artists (Volume II) by Giorgio Vasari
12.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Classics Ser.
In his "Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance", Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Roman ...Show more
Inside Out: Microsoft At 25: W by Microsoft
89.95 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Series: Penguin business
It is hard to think of a single company that bears comparison with Microsoft as a defining influence on the global culture. The key particpants in this extraordinary story now discuss their first quarter century, the ideas that guided them, and the challenges faced and overcome.
Rembrandt\'s Eyes by Simon Schama
72.95 NZD
79.95 (8% off)
Category: Fine Art | Series: Allen Lane History S.
In this biography, Simon Schama combines a mastery of the painter\\\'s life and times with sympathy for Rembrandt\\\'s character as it found both expression and transformation in his art.
Home Tree Home by Peter Nelson
39.95 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
Provides a guide to designing and building a treehouse, and includes information on safety, tree care, and styles and materials.
The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1) by Hilary Spurling
47.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in na ...Show more
Patternmaking for Fashion Design + CD Rom by Helen Joseph Armstrong
155.99 NZD
Category: Fashion
Fifth edition Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, Patternmaking for Fashion Design offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the t ...Show more
History of Italian Renaissance Art by Frederick Hartt
168.95 NZD
Category: Fine Art
Intended for survey courses in Italian Renaissance art, this comprehensive and popular text for the Italian Renaissance survey maintains Hartt's distinctive voice and formalist approach, while adding contextual detail that enriches the students understanding. When Frederick Hartt's "History of Italian R ...Show more