The Monocle Book of Gentle Living: A guide to slowing down, enjoying more and be
£35.00A handbook for the new decade: a book that helps you think about how to slow down, reconnect and live a gentler life.
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The Big Book of Blooms
£14.99The newest title in the hugely successful ‘Big Book’ series: a fact-filled book on the world’s most fascinating flowering plants.
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Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting
£10.99‘A minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences ? I’m delighted it’s back in print in a new edition’ Robert Macfarlane
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Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscraper
£24.95Presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between structural innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Organized around a central timeline that charts the development of architecture from the earliest structures to the present-day skyscrapers and global cities, it features key buildings, together with commentaries and contextual information about the social, political and cultural events of the period in which they were built.
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Bedtime: Inspirational Beds, Bedrooms & Boudoirs
£50.00Sleep beautifully: be inspired by hundreds of the most stylish, iconic, and simply fabulous beds and bedrooms ever designed. Celia Forner whisks you through the bedrooms of queens and emperors, designers and decorators, today’s most exclusive hotels, and even the most evocative fictional boudoirs from stage and screen. Taking us from Marie Antoinette to the Maharaja of Indore; from Tony Duquette to Peter Marino; from Mae West and Peggy Guggenheim to Rudolph Nureyev; from Gone with the Wind to 2001: A Space Odyssey, ‘Bedtime’ is a must have for anyone who dreams of sleeping like a king or queen.
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The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home
£60.00Twenty-five world class designers invite us inside their private French residences, providing intimate access to their creative universe and rich inspiration for home style. Stepping inside the private residences of France’s leading tastemakers provides unrivaled inspiration for interiors with a personal flair. From a modernist retreat to an urban-pop apartment, and from an eclectic cabinet of curiosities to an eighteenth-century hôtel particulier, each ambiance demonstrates a perfect mastery of associations between color, pattern, volume, material, and decorative genius. Pierre Yovanovitch’s elegant, purist sensitivity infuses his seventeenth-century château in Provence. Pierre Passebon, owner of the famous Galerie du Passage in Paris, has furnished his carefully curated home with a brilliant mix of tribal art, Wiener Werkstätte masterpieces, and design from the 1930s. Jewelry designer Lorenz Bäumer’s own inte
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Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion
£14.99Described by an admirer as ‘the High Druidess of fashion, the Supreme Pontiff, Perpetual Curate and Archpresbyter of elegance, the Vicaress of Style’, Diana Vreeland is the cloth from which 21st-century fashion editors are cut. Diana joined Harper’s Bazaar in 1936, where her pizzazz and singular point of view quickly made her a major creative force in fashion. During her time at Harper’s Bazaar and later as the editor-in-chief of Vogue, the self-styled ‘Empress of fashion’ launched Twiggy’s career, advised Jackie Kennedy, and enjoyed the full swing of sixties’ London. In Diana’s Vogue, women were encouraged to resist fashion orders from on high, and to use their own imaginations in re-creating themselves – much as Vreeland spent her own life doing. In this book, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists.
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Near & Far: Interiors I Love
£65.00In ‘Near & Far’, Fine invites us into her homes in Dallas, New York, and Paris and takes us along as she visits the places and people who have been her greatest sources of inspiration. Among her favoured treasures are the Mughal palaces and gardens of India, the 18th century home of Carl Linnaeus in Sweden, the whitewashed retreat of interior designer John Stefanidis on Patmos, and the idyllic country house and garden of London-based designer Penny Morrison. Other aesthetic sparks to Fine’s imagination include the oversize flower paintings and drawings of Scottish born artist Sarah Graham, the bohemian flair of Charlotte and Alex di Carcaci’s London home, and the extraordinary natural history collection of Jamie Creel and Marco Scarani’s New York shop, as well as their storied house in the Tangier casbah.
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Big Sticker Book of Birds
£8.95Packed with drawing activities, games and over 200 stickers, this fact-filled sticker book provides hours of entertainment and learning.
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Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002
£60.00The first comprehensive overview of Yves Saint Laurent’s haute couture collections, presented through original catwalk photography.
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Marvellous Fluffy Squishy Itty Bitty
£7.99From one of the most renowned and exciting illustrators working today, a picture book with a distinctive style mixing collage, paint and drawing