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Precious Jewellery from Plastics: Methods and Techniques by Chris Bond
$35.00 AUD
Category: Craft | Series: Design and Make
Whilst many jewellers and designers are working with plastics these days, there is very little information available about the methods and techniques required to manipulate them for jewellery-making purposes. This book includes instructions and advice on marking out and cutting, joining, laser and water ...Show more
Pyramids, Pillars and Palaces (Design Line) by Kitty Imbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | Series: Design Line
The third title in a series of concertina fold-out books features more than sixty iconic pyramids, castles and skyscrapers and other examples of architectural excellence. The history of architecture is illuminated with a visually accessible timeline that can be read back to front, top to bottom and righ ...Show more
Retro & Vintage Design by Michelle Galindo
$59.95 AUD
Category: Interior Design | Series: Design
Retro and Vintage are buzzwords that include 1930s Jagermeister, 1950s Roberts DAB Radio, and 1970s G Plan Furniture. While Eames Lounge Chairs, Levis 501, or Chanel N- 5 have always been popular and evolved into style icons, other products and styles were (almost) forgotten. Rediscovered in recent year ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs ...Show more
The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski; John Maeda (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
The stages of the creative process--from "unlearning" to beginning again--seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artis ...Show more
The Thinking Hand by Juhani Pallasmaa
$73.95 AUD
Category: Interior Design | Series: Architectural Design Primer Ser.
In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. 'The Thinking Hand' is ...Show more
Vogue on: Christian Dior by Charlotte Sinclair
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion Design | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection; his 'New Look' featured designs that transformed the way women dressed. Dior continued to send shockwaves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape during the ten years of his career as a couturier. Thi ...Show more
Vogue On: Coco Chanel by Bronwyn Cosgrave
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion Design | Series: Vogue on Designers
Hailed as 'the most influential female designer of the twentieth century', Coco Chanel pioneered classic easy-to-wear fashion for the modern woman. She arrived on the fashion scene when feathers, lace and ostentatious beads were favourites, and proceeded to re-invent couture using new materials, like je ...Show more
Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga by Susan Irvine
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion Design | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1936, Cristobal Balenciaga opened a fashion house in Paris, after fleeing the Spanish civil war; within a couple of seasons he had raised fashion to the level of art. Christian Dior called Balenciaga 'the master of us all', while Coco Chanel claimed that he alone was 'a couturier in the truest sense ...Show more
Vogue on: Elsa Schiaparelli by WATT JUDITH
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion Design | Series: Vogue on Designers
Shocking, witty and eccentric, the designs of Elsa Schiaparelli are among the most innovative and influential in the history of fashion. Black gloves with golden fingernails, buttons shaped like lips, trompe l'oeil images, brightly coloured zips and perfume bottles in the shape of a torso would not be o ...Show more