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Design Destinations Worldwide
Price: $95.00 Author: Joachim Fischer

Creative partnerships between architects, interior decorators, artists, and fashion designers are giving us beautiful and imaginative places in which to work and play. This book showcases some of these in cities around the world including Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, New York, Beirut and the Maldives. Whether it is a museum, bar, or boutique, the results are stunning and innovative in design.

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Liaigre
Price: $180.00 Author: Christian Liaigre & Thomas Lutz

This much celebrated French designer has brought his expertise to bear on homes belonging to Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and others, and to commercial restaurants and hotels around the world. In this book, he details six properties he has been responsible for, including a Canadian manor, a French villa, a Swiss farmhouse, and a thatched-roof home in Bora Bora. It is the diversity of design locales as well as the individual brilliance of this designer that makes for a truly interesting and inspirational book.

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A Letter From Tasmania
Price: $50.00 Author: Jonathan Bowden

This Australian born artist lived overseas for many years but now calls Tasmania home. In this self-published work, he recreates his Tasmania in paintings, pastels, and drawings.

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Dollar Dreaming
Price: $39.95 Author: Benjamin Genocchio

Beginning with the inescapable fact that the reality of an inter - national art market worth an estimated $400 million dollars is at odds with the socioeconomic status of traditional Aboriginal people in Australia today, this book follows the author's quest to explain what it is like inside the Aboriginal art world. He meets with, and recounts stories from, artists, curators, dealers, and collectors. The complexities and contradictions of this world and its non-Aboriginal backdrop are articulately investigated.

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Fred Williams 1927-1982
Price: $125.00 Author: Patrick McCaughey

Rarely do we get to revisit our work, no matter our field of endeavour. With this latest edition, Patrick McCaughey seizes the opportunity and brings the importance of Fred Williams's work to a contemporary and, possibly, new audience. It is a definitive study.

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Modern Times
Price: $49.95 Author: Ann Stephen et al

Encapsulating art, advertising, photography, fashion, architecture, and animation, this compilation brings together all aspects of modernism, defining the period 1917 to 1967. It deliberately sets out to represent all disciplines so that the established tendency to write on these as discrete areas is discarded enabling the reader to have a complete picture of how Australia embraced modernity, or not, as the case may be.

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Goldscheider: History of the Company and Catalogue of Works
Price: $299.00 Author: Robert E. Dechant & Filipp Goldscheider

The definitive guide to the designs of this venerable Viennese firm and the sculptors and ceramicists who created these highly prized works. There are entries for over 4000 items and all artists are listed.

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Unstill Life: Art, Politics, and Living with Clifton Pugh
Price: $32.95 Author: Judith Pugh

This book is as much about Australian politics in the 1970s as it is about the celebrated artist. It is, most of all, an honest, personal account of one woman's life and love.

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Plants and their Application to Ornament
Price: $55.00 Author: Eugene Grasset

Described as a design primer and including the foreword written by Grasset in 1896, this is a wonderfully conceived book of original floral designs. Grasset was a graphic designer and teacher who had considerable influence on the Art Nouveau movement at t

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The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin
Price: $199.00 Author: Dustin Griffin

Seventy-one pieces of writing by Griffin have been collated and placed in this edition in a way which exemplifies the thinking processes of this architect, lecturer, and writer. The reader is taken through his work by the architect himself, incorporating

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Le Corbusier Le Grand
Price: $250.00 Author: Phaidon Editors

Painter, sculptor, author, designer - but above all, Le Corbusier was an architect of incredible genius and stature. Born in Switzerland in 1887, he would go on to be synonymous with some of the most important and memorable buildings of the twentieth cent

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A Place in the Country: New Rural Architecture, Australia and New Zealand
Price: $69.95 Author: Stephen Crafti

From the mountains to the sea, architecture in this part of the world is more often than not synergistic with the natural environment. Detailing more than 40 rural retreats, Crafti gives the reader both a stunning photographic record of these homes and a

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Vintage French Interiors: Inspiration from the Antique Shops and Flea Markets of France
Price: $59.95 Author: Sébastien Siraudeau

Hunting for treasure throughout the regions of France, Siraudeau provides insight into France's best brocantes.

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Art & Today
Price: $120.00 Author: Eleanor Heartney

In this extensive guide Heartney surveys over four hundred international contemporary works of art from the 1980s through until today.

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China Art Book
Price: $75.00 Author: Grosenick & Schubbe

This collection showcases eighty contemporary Chinese artists who are currently in great demand in China and throughout the world. Illustrations are accompanied by an informative text in English, German and Chinese.

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Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Grafiti Artists said NO to the Iraq War
Price: $60.00 Author: Mathieson & Tàpies

A confronting and provocative expression of anger and distrust in Bush and Blair's 'War on Terror'. Sometimes witty, very often disturbing yet still insightful, this international documentation of Grafiti art communicates a voice of democratic opposition to the war in Iraq.

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30,000 Years of Art
Price: $69.95 Author: Phaidon Editors

Subtitled "The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space", this is an invaluable resource. It details 1000 great works including the date of the work, place of origin, style, medium, and cultural significance.

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Shoot Studio Sessions
Price: $150.00 Author: Peter Brew-Bevan

Of course there have been many books of portrait photography but nothing quite like this - an intimate look at the thought processes behind the 'shoot'. Innovative publishing.

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Klimt
Price: $295.00 Author: Alfred Weidinger

You may think you have a definitive work on Klimt, but nevertheless you will want to add this to your collection. It details his entire body of work and also provides fascinating academic studies of the artistís influence. Beautifully presented, it pays

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Iconic Australian Houses: Three Decades of Domestic Architecture
Price: $69.95 Author: Karen McCartney

The 1950s to 1970s signalled the awakening of an Australian modern architectural view. This book looks in depth at 15 iconic houses from this period and the architects who designed them.

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Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs
Price: $59.95 Author: Ansel Adams

The 400 images contained in this beautiful book are arranged chronologically into five major periods, beginning with the photographs from 1916. Adams' work represents the very best in landscape photography.

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Arthur Boyd A Life
Price: $65.00 Author: Darleen Bungey

The Boyd family is incredibly interesting. Arthur Boyd, who remains such a force in Australian art, typifies the creative excellence of successive generations of artists, sculptors, and architects.

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Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape
Price: $29.95 Author: Jeanette Hoorn

A fascinating and original perspective on the relevance of the pastoral character of Australia to the emergence of Australian art. This interpretation of contact history includes over 100 full colour reproductions of major paintings.

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Uncommissioned Art
Price: $39.95 Author: Christine Dew

Be it Perth, Alice Springs, or Melbourne, graffiti and street art causes debate - is it indeed art or purely a form of vandalism? This is a thoughtful and all encompassing overview.

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Guggenheim Collection 1940s to Now
Price: $55.00 Author: N/A

This National Gallery of Victoria production, that accompanies the Guggenheim exhibition in Melbourne, is informative and representative of the stunning pieces on display.

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One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia
Price: $125.00 Author: Art Gallery of NSW

Bringing together many of the finest Aboriginal artists of our time, this beautiful book is both homage and celebration.

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