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The Eco-design Handbook
Essential for anyone who wants to live a green but design-conscious life’ – Blueprint ‘Packed with useful information … absolutely fascinating … one of those essential books that should be on every bookshelf. Highly recommended’ – Hot Brands Cool Places ‘If you want a helping hand in staying chic and getting green you would do [...]
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Ângela Ferreira: Werdmuller Centre
Ângela Ferreira produced a new installation based on Roelof Uytenbogaardt’s Werdmuller Centre in Cape Town, for her solo exhibition. This catalogue documents Ferreira’s ‘investigative art’, revealing her thought processes. It inquiries into the building, which the artist uses as a prototype for the “failure of modernism and its utopian ideals in Africa”.These working processes take [...]
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Matthew Ritchie: More Than the Eye
Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie’s work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture. Named by Time magazine in 2001 as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, his rich work draws from subjects as diverse as ancient myth and medieval alchemy to [...]
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The Map as Art
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are [...]
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Jean-Paul Gaultier
Enfant terrible of the French fashion world, Jean-Paul Gaultier has astonished us with his inventiveness, energy and ability to have fun since his first collection at the end of the 1970s. A master of mixing styles often from the streets of London and Paris his clothes break down the barriers between beauty and ugliness, elegance [...]
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Collapsibles
A Design Album of Space-Saving Objects This entertaining book takes a quirky look at the world of flexible objects, those items that fold out for use and then fold back in again to save space. Per Mollerup identifies twelve principles of collapsibility and looks at examples of each in turn, before examining collapsibility in furniture [...]
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The Eco-design Handbook
The Eco-design Handbook – A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office The Eco-Design Handbook is the first book to present the best-designed objects for every aspect of the home and office, including the most environmentally sound materials and building products. Some of these pieces have already become classics, others have been uncovered from far-away [...]
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The New Autonomous House
Design and Planning for Sustainability (New edition) In 1975 Brenda and Robert Vale published The Autonomous House, a manifesto offering down-to-earth suggestions for building homes that do not pollute the earth or squander its resources. Their book received tremendous praise around the world and was seen as a significant move toward green architecture. Nearly twenty [...]
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Mirror of the World
Mirror of the World – A New History of Art What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in his highly acclaimed book, now available in paperback. Bell, himself a painter, takes a global [...]
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Reinventing the Wheel
As inventive as instructive, information wheels-or volvelles-have been used since the fourteenth century to measure, record, predict, and calculate everything form time and space to military history and recipes. In this fascinating book, designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers and in-depth look at these unique artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing-where else could [...]
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