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The Best of Brochure Design 8 by Ann Willoughby
$55.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Best of Brochure Design S.
Rockport's "Best of Brochure Design" series is a perennial best-seller worldwide. This paperback edition of the eighth instalment is not unlike its predecessors, for it too looks at the best and the brightest brochures produced by leading designers around the world. Brochure design is a very important a ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of the Dordogne by James Bentley
$80.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: World Design
The Dorodogne offers splendid scenery, exquisite food and wine, the finest examples of prehistoric art and some of the most enchanting villages of France. This guide offers a journey through the region, from northern gems such as Brantome to "grand" villages such as Hautefort, found further south among ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly ...Show more
Ultimate London Design by Christian Datz
$85.00 AUD
Category: Design | Series: Designfocus S.
Whether fashion, photography, art or architecture: new trends are set in London. Many prominent architects, designers and fashion creators live and work in London, including important names such as Norman Foster and Manolo Blhnik. Ultimate London Design presents the work of the most interesting creative ...Show more
Vogue On: Coco Chanel by Bronwyn Cosgrave
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Hailed as 'the most influential female designer of the twentieth century', Coco Chanel pioneered classic easy-to-wear fashion for the modern woman. She arrived on the fashion scene when feathers, lace and ostentatious beads were favourites, and proceeded to re-invent couture using new materials, like je ...Show more
Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga by Susan Irvine
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1936, Cristobal Balenciaga opened a fashion house in Paris, after fleeing the Spanish civil war; within a couple of seasons he had raised fashion to the level of art. Christian Dior called Balenciaga 'the master of us all', while Coco Chanel claimed that he alone was 'a couturier in the truest sense ...Show more
Vogue on Hubert De Givenchy by Drusilla Beyfus
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
The handsome, aristocratic Hubert de Givenchy blended the hallowed traditions of haute couture with a modern sensibility. For 40 years he focused always on purity of line, but combined an artist's eye with a keen entrepreneurial mind. His innovative 1952 debut collection made its mark by presenting sepa ...Show more
Vogue on Ralph Lauren by Kathleen Baird-Murray
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Ralph Lauren's designs vividly embody the American Dream and he has risen to become his country's foremost fashion designer. His visionary ability has created a multi-billion-dollar brand, still very successful almost 50 years on. His genius lies in his innate skill for interpreting key cultural element ...Show more
Vogue on Vivienne Westwood by Linda Watson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Secondhand. A provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition. From the mini crini, the liberty corset and the rocking-horse shoe to ...Show more
Vogue on: Christian Dior by Charlotte Sinclair
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection; his 'New Look' featured designs that transformed the way women dressed. Dior continued to send shockwaves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape during the ten years of his career as a couturier. Thi ...Show more