Jérôme Brunet Eric Saunier Urban Sites by Sebastian Redecke
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Two of the most distinctive architects on the lively architectural scene in France are Jerome Brunet and Eric Saunier. Sophisticated, and refined by abstraction and minimal art, their architectural language is free from the vagaries of passing trends. Their designs have a distinctly urban feel even in p ...Show more
Triumphs of Change - Architecture Reconsidered by Russell Walden
$85.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
This book is born out of a sense of scepticism with self-indulgence in architecture. It seeks a new prescription for readdressing architecture as an expression of human need. Sense, Sagacity and the Sublime define the architectural realities of its organizing principle, while Gods and Goddesses; Princes ...Show more
Auckland Architecture - A Walking Guide by John Walsh
$6.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Architecture | Reading Level: good
In this handy pocket guide, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teams up with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guided walking tour of 50 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era to the brand new. The sparkling and informative text is accompanied by maps for ...Show more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Alan Crawford
$15.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than any other work in Britain at that time. His interiors, many of them designed ...Show more
Farbenfenster Grosser Kathedralen des XII und XIII Jahrhunderts. Meisterwerke Mittelalterlicher Glasmalerei by Ricard Huch
$30.00 NZD
Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good
19 pages of text, 20 colour plates, first printed 1952
Chicago Furniture - Art, Craft and Industry 1833-1983 by Sharon S. Darling
$40.00 NZD
Category: Design | Reading Level: very good
Bloody Marvellous: George Haydn 1915 - 2005 by Dinah Holman; Christine Cole Catley (eds)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
George Haydn so loved life, and lived it with such gusto, that his trademark response was either "Marvellous" or "Bloody marvellous". Sent away by his large and loving family in Hungary to escape Hitler, he arrived in New Zealand in 1939, alone except for one cousin. Together with business partner Georg ...Show more
At Home - A Century of New Zealand Design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Taking the first decade of the twentieth century as its starting point, At Home joins the story of the New Zealand house just at the point when its inhabitants begin to ask whether a distinctive, uniquely New Zealand house might be possible. It then charts the way in which imported movements, fashions a ...Show more
Britomart - The Story by Carol Du Chateau
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Carroll du Chateau describes how the opportunity to restore the site and the heritage buildings was nearly lost late last century, as major demolition plans had already been put in place. Fortunately for Auckland, that never happened and instead Cooper and Company were selected to join with Auckland Cou ...Show more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Aurora Cuito
$10.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Archipockets Classic S. | Reading Level: very good
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow 1868-Londres 1928), Scottish architect and designer, had a great influence on twentieth century architecture and decoration. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art but soon abandoned the affected Victorian style to embrace one based on simplicity and geometrical s ...Show more
The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor by Judy Siers
$210.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Architecture | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of James Walter Chapman-Taylor - architect, craftsman, furniture designer, builder, photographer, astrologer and family man. The biography unfolds chronologically from Chapman-Taylor's birth in London to his childhood in Taranaki, New Zealand, and traces his career from his early years ...Show more
Interior Design Motifs of the 19th Century by Cesar Daly
$14.00 NZD
Category: Interior design | Series: Poster Art Ser. | Reading Level: good