 |
David Krut Publishing, |
 |
|
| Johannesburg 011 447-0627 / 011 880-5648 • Cape Town 021 685-0676 • New York 212 255-3094 | |||
Our bookstore is located at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. Our own titles as well as books from other South African and international publishers are available in the store and on this site. We are the sole distributors in southern Africa of books from Tate Publishing (UK), Assouline (USA), Nazraeli (USA). We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, graphic design and monographs.
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 [...]
|
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 [...]
|
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 [...]
|
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 [...]
|
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 [...]
|
Sanderson
Sanderson – The Essence of English Decoration For 150 years Sanderson has been at the vanguard of every significant movement in European decorative arts, from Arts and Crafts and Art Deco to 1980s country-house style and the vibrant interiors of the Noughties, shaping a distinctive mode of English decoration beloved throughout the world. Granted unprecedented [...]
|
Fashion Design Course
Fashion Design Course – Principles, Practice and Techniques: The Ultimate Guide for Aspiring Fashion Designers In this book, students will learn various methods of designing fashion, how to create and use inspirations, how fabric and colour strengthen a designers viewpoint, how to create dynamic fabric stories that form well-merchandized groups, and how to refine their [...]
|
New Classicism
New Classicism provides an in-depth look at a form of design that appeared lost forever with the rise of modernism in architecture. But now, with an intense revival of interest in classical design, and with the demise in popularity of the subsequent postmodernism, new vigor has infused traditional forms and motifs. Focusing on approximately thirty [...]
|
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind Since leaving a career in classical music in 1979 to focus solely on architecture, Daniel Libeskind’s highly unconventional approach to design has riveted the interest of students and young practitioners of architecture and design around the world. This book on Libeskind’s extraordinary work — inspired by his almost constant interaction with students and [...]
|
MAA TERE MANALEN
Maa Tere Manalen is an artist’s book based around a project developed by artist, Tere Recarens and the inhabitants of Bamako, the capital city of Mali, made during several visits in 2008 and early 2009. Recarens discovered that her first name, “tere” also exists as a word in Bamanan culture: “tere” describes an aspect of [...]
|
| Our other websites: David Krut Projects - Taxi Art Books - Body Maps
This site implemented and maintained by André Clements email: webmaster@davidkrutpublishing.com |
Entries (RSS)