Extraordinary Interiors by Suzanne Tucker
$65.00 NZD
Category: Arts
"Leafing through Designer Suzanne Tucker's third monograph, Extraordinary Interiors, one immediately recognizes her clever use of texture, color, light, and vivid art." - California HomesThe latest monograph of award-winning interior designer Suzanne Tucker, who is revered for her personal approach, end ...Show more
Surrender - 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
$55.00 NZD
Category: Arts | Reading Level: near fine
Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written a memoir; honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. "When I started to wri ...Show more
Architecture at Home - Houses for New Zealanders to live, work and play by Debra Millar
$80.00 NZD
Category: Arts | Reading Level: near fine
Showcasing a stunning selection of award-winning architect-designed houses from recent years, Architecture at Home explores a broad range of living environments in diverse locations. Permanent homes and occasional retreats, small houses on compact urban sites and larger ones in remote landscapes, new bu ...Show more
A Book of Seeing by Roger Horrocks
$38.00 NZD
Category: Arts
Everyone with sight knows the pleasure of colours, the fascination of faces and bodies, the subtle forms of nature, and the curious patterns of art. This book is for everyone who would like to delve deeper into their experience of seeing. "Richly textured and profoundly engrossing."- Murray Edmond. "Fre ...Show more
The Waves Between by James Midwinter
$69.99 NZD
Category: Arts
James Midwinter's work isn't necessarily about the act of surfing, but the time and space around it. It seeks to suggest rather than dictate. Midwinter attempts to conjure a sense of place and evoke an individual response. The viewer is invited to submit to the scene and step away from the distractions ...Show more
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write by Alex Johnson & James Oses
$45.00 NZD
Category: Arts
Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work. The perennial question asked of all authors is How do you write? What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they ...Show more
Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell
$59.99 NZD
Category: Arts
Many exciting new buildings have arisen from the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch but none, perhaps, is as remarkable as Ravenscar House in the heart of the city's heritage precinct. 'Ravenscar House: A biography' explores the story of this unique, purpose-built house museum as the realisation of ...Show more
Todd Saunders - New Northern Houses by Dominic Bradbury
$110.00 NZD
Category: Arts
Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders' unique approach, set in some of the most remote locations on earth, splices modern sculptural forms with a deeply rooted respect for nature, most famously in his Fogo Island Hotel and artists' studios in Newfoundland. Rather than imposing themselves upon th ...Show more
The Beatles: Get Back by The Beatles
$70.00 NZD
Category: Arts
The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (the White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras ...Show more
The Architect and the Artists - Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble - The Collaborative Projects 1965-1979 by Bridget Hackshaw
$65.00 NZD
Category: Arts | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 12 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. Drawing ...Show more
A History of the Photographic Lens by Rudolf Kingslake
$50.00 NZD
Category: Arts
The lens is generally the most expensive and least understood part of any camera. In this book, Rudolf Kingslake traces the historical development of the various types of lenses from Daguerre's invention of photography in 1839 through lenses commonly used today.From an early lens still being manufacture ...Show more
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence by Betty Edwards
$49.99 NZD
Category: Arts
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world’s most widely used drawing instruction book. Whether you are a professional, a student or enjoy art as a hobby Betty Edwards’ practical set-by-step guide to drawing will give you greater confidence in your ability, deepen your artistic perception and p ...Show more