Thrifty Household: More Than 1000 Budget-Friendly Hints and Tips for a Clean, Waste-free, Eco-friendly Home by Country Women's Association Victoria

$24.99 AUD

Category: Design

A modern classic for a new generation looking for environmentally friendly, thrifty, tried and true solutions for tackling everyday household tasks.  

Wood: Living and Working by David Andreu

$39.99 AUD

Category: Design

Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave by Joanna Gaines

$59.99 AUD

Category: Design

In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps for navigating and embracing your authentic design style. Room by room, Homebody gives you an in-depth look at how these styles are implemented as well as how to blend the looks you're drawn to in order to create spaces that feel distinctly yours. A design template at the end of the book offers a step-by-step guide to planning and sketching out your own design plans. The insight shared in Homebody will instill in you the confidence to thoughtfully create spaces you never want to leave. ...Show more

A Year in Fashion: A Look a Day by Pascal Morche

$39.99 AUD

Category: Design

Featuring fashion icons and images culled from the Getty archives, this book presents brilliant photos of designers and their creations, top models and movie stars, royalty and rock n' roll legends. 365 spreads-one for each day of the year- feature full-page, four-colour photographs along with fascinati ng fashion trivia. There is plenty of room for noting important dates, scribbling notes, or recording thoughts. The high quality reproductions and paper makes this book suitable for a well-dressed desk or a coffee table. Best of all it reminds us that the best fashion is ageless and timeless. ...Show more

50 Buildings You Should Know by Isabel Kuhl

$34.99 AUD

Category: Design | Series: 50 You Should Know

Attractive, useful and entertaining, this collection of great buildings is a course in architectural history for readers of all ages. The fifty buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from all over the world. Along with the Pyramids of Cheops, the Parthenon, and the Colosseum, readers will learn about other masterpieces such as the Hagia Sophia in Turkey; Cambodia's Temple Complex at Angor Wat; the Potala Palace in Lhasa; and the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Each entry features full color photographs of the structure along with informative text presented in a dynamic format. Readers can find basic information about each building's artistic relevance, style, and contextual history while timelines and sidebars offer additional notes about architectural periods and techniques. From ancient Jordan and Guatemala to modern-day Manhattan and Munich, this world tour of great places offers a mini-course in architecture that will satisfy even the most passionate student's lust for learning about the world's greatest buildings. 200 colour illustrations. ...Show more

1000 Ideas for Color Schemes - The Ultimate Guide to Making Colors Work by Jennifer Ott

$29.95 AUD

Category: Design

This handsome book is about choosing color combinations not necessarily for a specific use. Each spread contains about seven photographs and a color palette, like paint chips. The color palettes provide inspiration and reliable combinations for use in any number of projects: home d cor, fashion; weddin g celebrations, table settings, cake decorating, garden design -- imagination and circumstance are the only limit. It almost makes the difficult decision for you before you spend money. No more returned clothing, unused paint, or discarded drapery The book's features include: Divided into major color groups, each section explores a range of hues, from primary brights to subtle pastels Beautifully illustrated and easy to navigate Selected color choices are composed by experts for success every time Includes examples from fashion, d cor (living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, exteriors), garden (especially flowers), nature (including animals), cosmetics, food (including wedding cakes), fabrics (often luxurious), jewelry, and much more. 1000 Ideas for Color Schemes presents surprising and inspiring color combinations for any use. For home decorators, designers, sewers, painters and anyone using color, it is a keeper for the coffee table and the bookshelf. ...Show more

Australia Modern: 15 Houses in Harmony with the Land by Steve Huyton

$95.00 AUD

Category: Design

Australia has wildly differing topographies and climates, and its best residential architecture draws on those site conditions in inventive ways. This book illustrates the strength of the country's shift from British-influenced Georgian-style homes to more indigenous structures attuned to the land--a mo vement led by Australian architects such as Glenn Murcutt, Richard Leplastrier, and Gabriel Poole in the 1970s. Witness a range of new houses that grapple with the locales in which they are built. Up north, down south, and on the coast, from small and low-budget to multimillion-dollar dwellings, the focus is on the use of raw materials, energy efficiency, adaptable spaces, and embrace of the great outdoors for which the country is known. Drawings and interviews with the architects shed light on how they apply their intelligence and creativity to produce striking buildings that are uniquely Australian.   ...Show more

Perfect French Country - Inspirational Interiors from Rural France by Ros Byam Shaw

$70.00 AUD

Category: Design

In�Perfect French Country�Ros Byam Shaw celebrates relaxed rural France at its finest, visiting timeless and beautiful French country homes that feature�ancient beams, stone fireplaces, paneled rooms, and attics under steeply-pitched roofs.   In�Perfect French Country�Ros Byam Shaw celebrates rel axed rural France at its finest, visiting timeless and beautiful French country homes that feature�ancient beams, stone fireplaces, paneled rooms, and attics under steeply-pitched roofs.   In a busy modern world that seems increasingly overcrowded and monopolized by technology, the allure of the 'good life' is more potent than ever. As an antidote to texts and tweets, traffic jams and queues, additives and packaging, we seek out the simple and the wholesome, and long for the luxuries of space and fresh air. France can offer all these things, with its traditional farming methods, its authentic regional cuisine, and its low population density. Add to this the inimitable French sense of style and joie de vivre, and you have all the ingredients for an enviable way of life.�Perfect French Country�revels in the timeless and authentic beauty of the French country home. ...Show more

Mid-Century Modern Design - A Complete Sourcebook by Dominic Bradbury

$80.00 AUD

Category: Design

A definitive survey of mid-century modern design and architecture in an accessible compact edition, this book offers a rich overview of one of the most popular, collectable, and dynamic periods of design. With rich and diverse examples of everything from furniture and lighting to ceramics and textiles t o graphics and posters to interior design and architecture, this sleek compendium of mid-century style includes over 1,000 illustrations representing classic designs and little-seen rarities, as well as entries on nearly 100 major creators, such as Dieter Rams, Robin Day, Isamu Noguchi, Lucie Rie, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, and Oscar Niemeyer. An additional illustrated dictionary features hundreds more influential mid-century designers, manufacturers, organizations, schools, and movements. Organized into three parts--"Media and Masters," with six sections on applied arts; "Houses and Interiors," featuring twenty seminal homes and their furnishings; and an "A-Z of Designers and Makers"--and complete with thirteen specially commissioned essays by renowned experts, this illustrated book is a must-have for collectors, design aficionados, and anyone seeking inspiration for their home.   ...Show more

ARCHITECTURE 101 by NICOLE BRIDGE

$29.99 AUD

Category: Design

Inspired by JAMIE DURIE

$24.99 AUD

Category: Design

The Adventures of Coco le Chat by Nathan Paul

$29.99 AUD

Category: Design