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Sumptuously illustrated Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s celebrates the classical period of the twentieth century, where high levels of excellence in art and design were attained throughout the world of decorative arts. In its purist form Art Deco is characteristically Parisian – supreme luxury combined [...]

What makes a great city great? Much admired historian, travel writer and television personality John Julius Norwich lends his considerable skills to editing The Great Cities in History a compilation of work by his colleagues. It celebrates the complexity and customs of each city and its citizens who helped define its identity and contributed to [...]

Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe is treading a well worn path. That of the young English grand tourist who, in the eighteenth century, spent up to five years traveling through France and Italy returning home via Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Their journey highlighted the importance of local customs and traditions growing an [...]

Carlo Mollino has been active in many creative fields since stepping outside his father’s architecture firm in 1938 to pursue an independent and highly original career. Fulvio Ferrari & Napoleone Ferrari introduce us to The Furniture of Carlo Mollino in a study both of his life and ground breaking work in interior design.
Carlo Mollino (1905-73), [...]

Massimo Listri’s stylish Casa Mediterranea: Spectacular Houses and Glorious Gardens by the Sea documents a life well lived overlooking one of the greatest bodies of water in the world. Spectacularly blue the landlocked Mediterranean, with its limited tides, has stood for centuries “in the middle of the earth” and at the source of founding many [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright: 50 Buildings by America’s Greatest Architect is a tribute to legendary American architect, interior designer, writer and educator Frank Lloyd-Wright.
This book showcases fifty of Wright’s most important projects. It covers buildings throughout all his career, from the house he built for himself in Oak Park, Illinois in 1889 to the landmark structures [...]

In The Secret Lives of Buildings, Edward Hollis rewrites architectural history in this beautiful and unsettling study of how the masterpieces of Western architecture have changed over time
The plans [...]

Etcetera: etc. is the new book by uber Aussie stylist Sibella Court of Home Made fame.
Packed with tips of the interior stylist’s trade, Etcetera is a lavishly photographed interiors book in which every image demonstrates a clear and easily replicable principle that will help transform a room without the need for expensive and permanent renovation. [...]

Green Architecture Now! provides an overview of the architects, designers and practices forging today’s sustainable and environmentally sound architecture, from Tadao Ando and Thom Mayne to up-and-coming talents by one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture Philip Jodidio.
Buildings are among the heaviest consumers of natural resources and account for a significant [...]

Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin is Alasdair McGregor’s new book that details the life and work of the architect of Canberra and his wife.
On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the [...]