Savvy Chic: The Art of More for Less by Anna Johnson

$34.99 NZD

Category: Fashion

Luxury living can still be achieved on a budget. "Savvy Chic" will teach you how to entertain, decorate, travel, and dress for less. In elegant prose, Anna Johnson combines a unique mix of anecdote, riff, and how-to, and shares her secrets of survivalist chic. She mixes the passionate with the practical to come up dozens of ideas for enhancing your lifestyle without killing your bank account: Decorating - create exquisite curtains with Chinese lace tablecloths bought for pennies in Chinatown; Style - master the art of wearing thrift-store vintage by figuring out your best decade: forties for pear shapes versus thirties or sixties for narrow hips; Travel - everything from faking resort chic in Capri to making a one star hotel room feel like home; Leisure - on a hot summer day create a luxurious in-home bathroom spa by dressing in a light kimono and cotton slippers, and soaking in a cool tub with a plate of sliced mango; and, Entertaining - abundant food is more impressive than expensive food - a mountain of clams steamed in a simple tomato broth with warm baguette costs little and immediately sets a decadent mood. Anna's philosophy runs throughout "Savvy Chic": good taste on the cheap is the backbone of libertine thrift, but more important still is the sense of abundance, generosity, and fun that come from re-inventing the rules. Adorned with gorgeous four-color illustrations, "Savvy Chic" is perfect for any woman looking to save money without skimping on style. ...Show more

High Voltage Tattoo by Kat Von D.

$59.99 NZD

$64.99 (7% off)

Category: Coffee Table Books

The charismatic Kat Von D, the star of LA Ink, with writer Anthony Bozza (author of best-sellers "Slash" and "Tommyland") opens the door to the world of contemporary tattooing, the way only a true insider can. The book will be targeted to the tattoo audience, particularly the younger demographic that ac tively gets tattoos. It will include Kat's story, what inspires her, information about her show and her shop, her sketches, and her personal tattoos (she's a walking tattoo). The thrust of the book is on her point of view on tattooing now: the work she finds inspirational, past and present; great tattoo artists, from a classic artist like Sailor Jerry to people she admires who are working around the world.The book will feature the work of and profiles of/interviews with a range of contemporary tattoo artists. It will also include lots of profiles of /interviews with people who have interesting tattoos and all the stories behind them, which is a very intriguing aspect of her show. The book will have a strong voyeuristic, human interest factor along with a wealth of great line art and photography, which is being shot for the book by Lionel Deloy. Finally, the book will include humourous visual thematic portfolios of Kat's work and aspects of tattooing she finds compelling. The examples include: Kat's portrait tattoos (for which she is famous); great work in typography, back pieces, memorials, body suits, and more. ...Show more

The One Hundred : A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own by Nina Garcia

$29.99 NZD

Category: Fashion

As the Fashion Director at Elle magazine, Nina has learned an indispensable fact - women love lists. They love making them, reading about them, following them, crossing each item off, etc. The One Hundred will be a thoroughly researched take on these attainable items, featuring Ruben Toledo's stand-out, signature illustrations. She will explore a short history of many of the items, with beautifully designed side-bars that include fun-to-know-facts, and will also summon the advice from the many expert friends she has throughout the fashion industry. ...Show more

Gothic Art Now by Jasmine Becket-Griffith

$65.99 NZD

Category: Fine Art

Having spent so long on the periphery of the art world, gothic art is taking its place as a bonafide art form influencing fashion, literature, film, media, music, and design. "Gothic Art Now" brings together for the first time the finest, the freshest, the darkest and the most exciting talents from aro und the world. The work covers the most compelling gothic art across various media, from paintings and illustrations to photography, sculpture, and digital art. Featured gothic art includes the breathtaking sculptures of H.R. Giger, the ethereal watercolors of Natalia Pierandrei, the grim fairytale paintings of David Stoupakis, the hypnotic oil paintings of David Bowers, the haunting photography of Shannon Hourigan, the sinister dolls of Scott Radke, the delicately dismal portraits of Dorian Cleavanger, and numerous other terrifying and thought-provoking artistic creations in literature, digital media, film, and advertising. Inside information from the artists on how they created their work along with a full artist directory are also featured. Contents: Foreword by acclaimed gothic art author and illustrator Brom Introduction Femmes Fatales Men in Black Gothic Elegance Industrial Goth Lurking Horror Dark Fantasy Creepy Creations Grim Comics ...Show more

The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican by Benjamin Blech & Roy Doliner

$39.99 NZD

$40.99 (2% off)

Category: Fine Art

On the 500th anniversary of when Michelangelo started his masterpiece, we discover that the Sistine Chapel ceiling is full of hidden, never-before-revealed messages rooted in an underground movement of freethinking protest that Michelangelo created right

The Simpsons Masterpiece Gallery by Matt Groening

$27.99 NZD

Category: Coffee Table Books

Acquire the finest and funniest in poster art with this eclectic collection of "Simpsons" artwork. This enormous assemblage of fifty hilariously hang-worthy images, featuring everyone's favorite TV family, will fill your home and awaken your inner art connoisseur. Whether luxuriously displayed on a co ffee table or elegantly mounted on the wall, the artwork in "The Simpsons Masterpiece Gallery" will turn your home into a Simpsonesque pop culture panoply. ...Show more

The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia

$29.99 NZD

Category: Fashion

A Fashion Director at "Elle" magazine, Nina Garcia knows trends and that balancing the classics with the trends is what style is all about. "The Little Black Book of Style" provides the essential rules for fashion that every woman should know. From definite fashion faux-pas to pointers on how to create your own sense of style, to uncovering what makes you look and feel good, Nina Garcia offers readers the ultimate guide to follow when it comes to dressing their best. It includes tips on how and when to wear an outfit, occasion appropriate wear, advice on how to combine colours and textures, and inspiration on how to achieve your own signature look. First published 2007. ...Show more

The Power of Art by Simon Schama

$84.99 NZD

Category: Fine Art

"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually th ey are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. . . ." With the same disarming force, "The Power of Art" propels us on an eye-opening, breathtaking odyssey, zooming in on eight extraordinary masterpieces, from Caravaggio's "David and Goliath" to Picasso's "Guernica." Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever. The embattled heroes? Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko? each in his own resolute way, faced crisis with steadfast defiance, pitting passion and conviction against scorn and short-sightedness. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world. With vivid storytelling and powerfully evocative descriptive passages, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of Civil War Spain. Most compelling of all,"The Power of Art" traces the extraordinary evolution of eight "eye-popping" world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination, such works "tell us something about how the world is, how it is to be inside our skins, that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that, they answer, irrefutably and majestically, the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript . . . 'OK, OK, but what's art really for?'" ...Show more

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. by Burt Boyar

$79.99 NZD

Category: Coffee Table Books

Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. Only now, however, is Davis' talent as a photographer finally being recognized. In this previously unpublished collection of black and white photography, readers will be fascinated by Davis' portrayals of A-list perform ers, iconic world leaders, and scenes from everyday life. Davis' subjects include dozens of classic celebrities - such as Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, and James Dean - who are often photographed at their most casual and revealing moments. Accompanying the pictures is an assortment of remembrances by Burt Boyar, a longtime friend and traveling companion of Davis who collaborated with the entertainer on both of his autobiographies. Through a series of memorable anecdotes, Boyar reflects on Davis' many achievements as well as the private moments they shared as friends. ...Show more

Cartooning - Artists library

$22.99 NZD

Category: Fine Art

Vim & Vinegar by Melodie Moore

$35.99 NZD

Category: Home Improvement

Explores the many uses of vinegar around the house, such as keeping cheese fr molding, cleaning windows, absorbing bad odors, and cleaning copper.

PostSecret by Frank Warren

$61.99 NZD

$78.00 (20% off)

Category: Fine Art

Offers illustrated postcards from the PostSecret website sent in by people who anonymously reveal secrets from their past which they have never told to anyone, presenting a full range of emotions.