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Islamic Art Architecture, Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Glass, Carpets
ISBN: HB: 9783791385662, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
320 pp., 28.7x27 cm, 414 colour and black&white illus.
From its birth in the 7th century through modern times, the Islamic religion has inspired glorious works of art. This stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures of Islamic art that span the world: from southern Europe, a...
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£29,99
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London's Great Theatres
ISBN: HB: 9783791383866, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 143 colour and black&white illus.
This richly illustrated exploration of the most remarkable London theatres features witty and engaging texts by actor Simon Callow, whose knowledge of the city's dramatic venues is intimate and wide-ranging. One of the most prominent photographers of...
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£29,99
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Hidden London Discovering the Forgotten Underground
ISBN: HB: 9780300245790, Yale University Press, September 2019
240 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.
"Hidden London" is a lavishly illustrated history of disused and repurposed London Underground spaces. It provides the first narrative of a previously secret and barely understood aspect of London's history. Behind locked doors and lost entrances lie...
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£25,00
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East German Modern
ISBN: HB: 9783791385358, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
208 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.
The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and effici...
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£35,00
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Design for the Crowd Patriotism and Protest in Union Square
ISBN: HB: 9780226080826, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 43 halftones
Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighbo...
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£27,00
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Platform for Change A Farm Cultural Park Guide
ISBN: HB: 9788862423663, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, August 2019
368 pp., 27x20 cm, 650 colour and black&white illus.
"Platform for Change" is the across-the-boards narrative of a journey through the breathtaking landscapes of global and local urban regeneration, intelligent community building strategies, cities where citizens take charge of their public spaces. Cit...
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£34,99
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Montage and the Metropolis Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space
ISBN: PB: 9780300248340, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.
Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli...
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£30,00
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Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland
ISBN: PB: 9781913107000, Yale University Press, August 2019
272 pp., 24.8x21.6 cm, 132 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country estates they resided in were carefully constructed to accommodate their cultivated lifestyles. Based on new research from Irish national collections and correspondence cul...
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£25,00
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Data from Nature Nature, Digitisation and Design
ISBN: PB: 9788832080025, Bookport, ListLab, July 2019
224 pp., 23x16 cm, colour illus.
A fascinating exploration of exquisite images captured from natural materials, and of their applications in fashion, environmental design, and apps that anticipate a new era of digitally-driven individual creativity. "Data From Nature" begins with th...
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£45,00
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Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois, and Offaly Buildings of Ireland
ISBN: HB: 9780300232042, Yale University Press, July 2019
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
This comprehensive guide covers the historically rich and nuanced territory of Central Leinster, from the western borderlands of the medieval English Pale to the wild expanse of the Bog of Allen and further west to Clonmacnoise, cradle of early monas...
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£45,00
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