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Alexander von Humboldt The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries
ISBN: HB: 9783791383545, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
736 pp., 34x24 cm, 600 colour illus.
This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmenta...
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£160,00
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Made in L.A. 2018
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791357416, Prestel Publishing, June 2018
208 pp., 24x14.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This book presents work featured in the 2018 edition of Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition. Since its inception in 2012, Made in L.A. has been bringing together regional artists from every discipline and has been curated by some o...
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£22,50
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50 Impressionist Painters You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384436, Prestel Publishing, April 2018
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 120 colour illus.
Now available in a new edition, this array of masterpieces by the luminaries of the Impressionist movement is the next best thing to viewing them in person. No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of Impressionism. Here fifty of the...
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£14,99
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Vintage Cycling Posters
ISBN: PB: 9783791384290, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
48 pp., 35x29 cm, 22 colour illus.
This thrilling book of detachable vintage cycling posters captures the sport's style and speed throughout the years. Dating from the late 19th-century to the 1970s, this collection features vintage posters from cycling's most iconic brands – such as...
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£19,99
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Le Corbusier The Complete Buildings
ISBN: HB: 9783791384023, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
320 pp., 32.4x21.6 cm, 280 colour illus.
In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured...
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£39,99
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Frank Bowling Mappa Mundi
ISBN: HB: 9783791356587, Prestel Publishing, June 2017
256 pp., 28.9x23 cm, 110 colour illus.
When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle o...
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£45,00
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Renaovate Inovate Reclaimed and Upcycled Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9783791383095, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 275 colour illus.
From converted factories and chapels to cabins built from salvaged wood, this collection of innovative, beautiful, and sustainable dwellings showcases a worldwide trend for upcycling in home design. Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored h...
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£35,00
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Alexei Jawlensky
ISBN: HB: 9783791356389, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 169 colour illus., 28 black&white illus.
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941) was Russian, but lived in Germany much of his life and obtained German citizenship in 1934. He was a friend of Vasily Kandinsky, who he met in Munich when studying painting with Anton Azbe, and had close ties to the Germa...
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£40,00
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Upcyclist Reclaimed and Remade Furniture, Lighting and Interiors
ISBN: HB: 9783791349503, Prestel Publishing, March 2015
256 pp., 27x21 cm, 275 colour illus.
Upcycling goes upscale in this beautiful, elegant, and global collection that showcases what today's designers are creating out of yesterday's materials. Upcycling is the process of transforming seemingly low value items into something new. Today's...
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£32,50
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Little Hippo A Children's Book Inspired by Egyptian Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791371672, Prestel Publishing, September 2014
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.
Drawing on ancient Egyptian sculptures seen in museums around the world, this enchanting story for children reveals the powerful connection between Egyptians and the hippopotami that inhabited the Nile. To the ancient Egyptians, the hippopotamus was...
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£10,99
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