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History of Modern Design (Second Edition)
David Raizman Softcover | 22.48 x 3.81 x 30.23 cm | 432 pp Laurence King | 2010 | 9781856696944 This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and...- £27.50
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The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design
Tristran Hunt Hardcover | 19.43 x 3.05 x 23.37 cm | 256 pp V&A | 2019 | 9781851779727 In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell...- £20.00
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Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture
Louise Harpman & Scott Specht Softcover | 14 x 2 x 15 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2018 | 9781616896560 The ubiquitous plastic coffee cup lid combines indentations, protrusions, tabs, and score lines that can be pinched, pulled, pushed, punctured, and tucked...- £10.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Type Tells Tales
Steven Heller & Gail Anderson Softcover | 24.1 x 2 x 33.8cm | 224 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500420577 A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice.Stretching the boundaries...- £15.00
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Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design (Non-mint)
Charlene Prempeh Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.31 x 24.41 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2023 | 9783791388472 Previously marginalised, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a century of groundbreaking work by...- £12.50
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Vendor:Abbeville Press
A Century of American Toys and Games: The Story of Pressman Toy
Hardcover | 33.78 x 2.79 x 26.16 cm | 256 pp Abbeville Press | 2022 | 9780789214447 From Chinese checkers to the Wheel of Fortune board game, this is the story of how one family business shaped the way Americans play. Abundantly illustrated with new colour...- £25.00
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
The Battle for Better Design: The History of the Royal Fine Art Commission
Roger Bargery Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.07 x 25.4 cm | 196 pp Unicorn Press | 2024 | 9781911397960 Prince Albert was the first Chairman of the first Royal Fine Art Commission, appointed by Queen Victoria to commission art for the new Houses of Parliament....- £20.00
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Vendor:Bloomsbury
Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America
Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand Softcover | 15.6 x 0.94 x 23.39 cm | 176 pp Bloomsbury | 2019 | 9781350045712 Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. With an extended introduction setting the case studies...- £20.00
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Vendor:British Library
Inventing the 21st Century
Stephen van Dulken Paperback | 157 pp | 15.9 x 23.5 cm British Library | 2010 | 9780712358026 Surprise and intrigue are rife in this fascinating history of modern inventions. Although we are only ten years into the 21st century, the number of new patents...- £7.50
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Vendor:Phaidon
Vitamin Green
Joshua Bolchover Hardcover | 26.04 x 3.49 x 30.48 cm | 352 pp Phaidon | 2012 | 9780714862293 Vitamin Green looks at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the...- £30.00
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Vendor:Distanz
Best of German Interior Design
Hardcover | 24.28 x 4.93 x 29.21 cm | 376 pp Distanz | 2017 | 9783954761807 Best of German Interior Design introduces the reader to the fifty most renowned German designers and fifty leading German manufacturers of home interior products. It portrays a scene...- £30.00
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Vendor:Prestel
Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics
Esther Choi Hardcover | 20.8 x 2.46 x 28.42 cm | 256 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791384726 It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi - artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook - hosted for friends after she stumbled across an...- £15.00
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Vendor:Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Jakob Berg: Furniture
Hardcover | 23 x 2.54 x 28.5 cm | 240 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906303 This is the first comprehensive presentation of the work of Danish furniture designer Jakob Berg (1958–2008). As a designer, he was ahead of his time and...- £25.00
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Vendor:Goff Books
Craig Frazier: Drawn
Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 300 pp Goff Books | 2024 | 9781957183916 Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier’s illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated...- £25.00
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Vendor:Jovis
Original Resopal: The Aesthetics of the Surface
Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 30.48 cm | 192 pp Jovis | 2006 | 9783939633044 German company Resopal have been pioneers in the manufacture and design of plastic laminates since their invention in the early twentieth century. Like Formica in the U.S., the...- £10.00
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Vendor:Park Books
Dust Free Friends
6a architects Softcover | 21.59 x 1.52 x 15.24 cm | 80 pp Park Books | 2015 | 9783038600077 You may have braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose...- £15.00
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Ian Ritchie: Light
Ian Ritchie Hardcover | 16.8 x 1.1 x 14.5 cm | 64 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397755 Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the...- £5.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Christopher Dresser: Design Pioneer
Max Donnelly Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm | 144 pp Thames & Hudson | 2021 | 9780500480700 Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer....- £8.50
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Vendor:MIT Press
Making Design Theory
Johan Redström Hardcover | 22.86 x 16 x 1.52 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262036658 A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward “academisation” of traditionally practice-based fields...- £15.00
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Vendor:Batsford
Tom Eckersley: A Mid-century Modern Master
Paul Rennie Hardcover | 22.1 x 2.79 x 22.1 cm | 256 pp Batsford | 2021 | 9781849946049 From iconic posters for the Post Office and London Transport to designs for brands such as Guinness, this richly illustrated book explores the work of influential British...- £12.50
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