Atlas of Never Built Architecture
£49.95Discover more than 300 extraordinary unbuilt architecture projects that never made it off the drawing board
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Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
£60.00The first book dedicated to Margaret Calvert, pioneer of design for public service, a groundbreaking typographer and recipient of 2024’s New York Type Directors Club Medal. Margaret Calvert’s design work on the signs of Britain’s national road network, with Jock Kinneir, means that it is almost impossible to travel anywhere in the UK and not benefit from her skill as a designer. Her ultra-legible typeface and engaging pictograms have become an integral part of everyday British life, and they have set the benchmark for highway signage internationally. Following a distinguished career as a graphic designer, Margaret Calvert became an influential educator at the Royal College of Art, where she taught a generation of designers, many of whom have achieved global recognition. Today, working in her home studio, she takes on projects that personally inspire her. This monograph – the first dedicated to her work – captures the full arc of her c
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Living in Colour
£19.95Tap into the growing trend for injecting colour into one’s living space with this elegant, inspiring selection of contemporary interiors in every shade and hue – now available in a compact format
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Yves Saint Laurent and Photography
£49.95Yves Saint Laurent and his designs, as captured by the greatest photographers of the 20th century
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Make It Ours
£20.00In 2018, the fashion world was shocked when Virgil Abloh was appointed as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton. In the brand’s 164 year history, he would be the first Black designer to serve as Artistic Director. In this brilliant, landmark book about Virgil Abloh, Robin Givhan charts his surprising path to the top of the fashion world – a story that encompasses so much more than his own journey. This is at once a remarkable biography of the singular, creative force of an icon and a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury. With access to Abloh’s family, friends, collaborators, contemporaries, and many of the key figures of fashion’s present and recent past, Givhan weaves a spellbinding tale of a young man’s rise amidst a cultural moment that would upend a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste.
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David Kleinberg – interiors
£39.95Revered interior designer David Kleinberg invites readers inside a selection of projects representing the height of sophistication, luxury, and refinement
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Outlaws
£35.00‘Outlaws’ features specially commissioned photography of original outfits crafted by 27 trailblazing clothes designers, including John Galliano, Stephen Linard, Bodymap, Pam Hogg, Rachel Auburn, Wayne Hemingway, Richmond Cornejo and Bowery himself. These are accompanied by interviews with icons of 1980s clubland such as musician Holly Johnson, DJ Mark Moore and artists Peter Doig and Dave Baby, while stories from those who wore the pieces are entwined with clubland flyers and rarely seen photos of the styling on show at clubs such as Taboo, the legendary weekly club night Leigh Bowery founded in 1985.
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Fashion in colour
£35.00A stunning new large-format fashion book from fashion illustrator Megan Hess, celebrating the intersecting stories of fashion and colour.
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New English interiors
£28.00New English Interiors is a celebration of an endlessly evolving and consistently forward-looking style that is enjoying a renewed popularity among today’s young creatives.
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Love how you live
£44.95The first book from the AD100 interior designer renowned for joyful, vibrant, intensely personal homes imbued with art, pattern, and craftsmanship
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The Secret Life of LEGO¬ Bricks
£30.00This first official book for Adult Fans of LEGO takes the reader on a visually stunning journey from the very earliest hollow bricks to the complex shapes and building techniques of today.
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Paul Smith
£49.95A timely celebration of British design legend Sir Paul Smith and his one-of-a-kind creativity