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Look for Me All Around You Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
ISBN: PB: 9783791358512, Prestel Publishing, December 2020
270 pp., 24x17 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Accompanying "Look for Me All Around You", one of the three sections of Sharjah Biennial 14, this book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-)continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic...
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£19,99
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Little Dancer A Children's Book Inspired by Edgar Degas
ISBN: HB: 9783791374499, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 16 colour illus.
Degas's ballerina paintings are well known and admired and his sculptural work Little Dancer Aged Fourteen – the only sculpture he exhibited in his lifetime – is particularly beloved for capturing the essence of a ballerina. This book tells the ficti...
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£10,99
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Ljubljana: A City by Heart Joze Plecnik's Legacy and Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423571, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, June 2020
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Joze Plecnik's work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work. The text in here, driven in this track, do...
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£16,99
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Lummi Island Cooking
ISBN: HB: 9783791385679, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
208 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 80 colour images 
Everything that Chef Blaine Wetzel makes is sourced within a few miles of his kitchen, often hours after it has been harvested from the ocean, the forest, or his own small farm. Lummi will inspire professional and home chefs to pay close attention to...
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£35,00
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Lina Bo Bardi  Habitat
ISBN: PB: 9783791359649, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
352 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 398 illus.
Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practic...
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£45,00
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Lahore: The Historic City The Historic City and Regional Cultural Heritage
ISBN: HB: 9783791358567, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
368 pp., 28x22 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
The cultural capital of Pakistan, and one of the world's most historically fascinating cities – Lahore – has retained much of its historic heritage despite centuries of turbulence. Today it remains a vibrant epicenter of commercial and cultural activ...
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£45,00
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Le Corbuffet Edible Art and Design Classics
ISBN: HB: 9783791384726, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
256 pp., 28x20 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.
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 elaborate menu crafted for Walter Gropius in 1937. Combining a curiosity about art and...
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£29,99
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Lucian Freud Herbarium
ISBN: HB: 9783791385334, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
176 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how w...
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£39,99
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Lari Pittman Declaration of Independence
ISBN: HB: 9783791356891, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
208 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 colour illus.
One of the most prolific and exuberant painters of the past three decades, Lari Pittman creates works that mirror the social fabric of his time. This dazzling volume follows Pittman's trajectory as his visual language evolved and his technical master...
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£49,99
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Land of the Rising Cat Japan's Feline Fascination
ISBN: PB: 9783791384948, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
176 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
In a country with millions of cat owners, it's not unusual to find felines in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, and museums; being taken for stroller rides; or even serving as train stationmasters. But how did this cat mania start? Why does it continue to...
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£14,99
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