Category - Design
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What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first ...
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Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes ...
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent. In the 1970s, Paris fashion ex...
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The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 1. 1890-1959
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00Original price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00Current price $64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change—whether social, political, or technological—has its winne...
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Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies. The essays in this collection locate design at...
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Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00Original price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00Current price $112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Alastair Duncan’s Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style and the one that shaped popular ideas ...
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No More Giants: J. M. Richards, Modernism and the Architectural Review
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book is a history of J. M. Richards' career as editor of The Architectural Review and as an architectural critic and writer from 1933-73. The ...
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Fabric of the Game: The Stories Behind the Nhl's Names, Logos, and Uniforms
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An in-depth look into the origins of how each NHL team was named, received their logo and design, with interviews by those responsible. Written by ...
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M.C. Escher. the Graphic Work
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and m...
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Chanel: Collections and Creations
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Chanel's combination of tradition, originality, and style has always made it the most seductive of fashion labels. Here the House of Chanel opens i...
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The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The Triumph of Nature returns us vividly to an entrancing time in European decorative arts, from its beginnings in the Arts and Crafts movement and...
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Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000
PaperbackOriginal price $59.99Original price $59.99 - Original price $59.99Original price $59.99Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with ...
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Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99Original price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99Current price $78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with m...
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The Art Deco Style: Great Designers & Collectors
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /• Richly illustrated history of Art Deco• Written by art consultant Alastair Duncan• Designs by Eileen Gray, Jean Dunand and Antoine Bourdelle, a...
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The Switch: An Off and on History of Digital Humans
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency ...
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Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary Black Mountain College In the mid-twentieth century, Black Mountain College...
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Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From one of the world’s most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring an...
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Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the conte...
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Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A delightful romp through the surprising subcultures of an obsolete formatThis volume explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the 21s...
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Bauhaus
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wi...
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Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Showcasing marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and more, this book reveals a little-known arts phenomenon from its grass roots in the ...
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Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Family and friends will enjoy hours of entertainment while viewing the amazing 3D illustrations found in this #1 New York Times bestseller.Embedd...
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Design as Art
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design, by the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentie...
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Art Record Covers
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manife...
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