Images, ideas and stories relating to projects from the 1960s to the present, from the most amiable and able guru of interiors. With text by the distinguished writer.
Great houses such as Holkham, Sissinghurst, Chatsworth, Burghley and more modest loveliness such as Kelmscott too. Also images of that elusive idea of 'quintessential' Britishness - fly fish... read more
Eight decades of Japanese architecture and design, approached chronologically. More illustrations than there are pages; the author has spent four of these decades based in Japan.
Innovative and original approach to architecture and urban planning that takes account of the economic as well as the human cost of awful building and proposes a very different solution.
Orientalism from the C17th to the C20th: an excellent survey of chinoiserie and japonisme in the decorative arts of the British Isles, especially in properties belonging to the National Trus... read more
Smalley's architectural work is renowned for its simplicity, clarity and understatement. As well as his own work, he includes here a Palladian villa, Barbara Hepworth's studio, houses in Mex... read more
Hurrah for the second issue of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining magazine! Contributors this time include Celia Paul, A.N. Wilson, Christopher Woodward of the Garden Museum, Henrietta ... read more
The architecture and interiors of Pompeii, photographed in natural light and in marvellous detail. This lavish book has emerged from a project undertaken by Spina and the Parco Archeologico ... read more
A revised and updated edition in the Buildings of England series. (Please note that Yale will increase the price of this three months after publication.)
Intelligent and aesthetic responses to climate change, pollution, energy requirements etc, using a handful of contemporary projects in France, Germany and Switzerland as exemplars of good pr... read more
A wander through the city's various districts by one of Korea's foremost architects: his love of old Seoul, with its low-rise neighbourhoods and narrow streets, is palpable.The Korean taste ... read more
Furniture, objects, designs, textiles and drawings by the great designer of the Viennese Arts & Crafts movement. To accompany the current exhibition at the Brussels Museum of Art and History... read more
A hefty and well-illustrated work of scholarship that engages with all aspects of architecture in the British Isles from towns and villages to military and industrial buildings.
Glamorous pictures of the iconic Brazilian hotel, patronised by the author's family since it opened in 1923. Matteoli has included many anecdotes of former days.
Charts the influence of the Bauhaus in England and America in the 1930s, expanding on the school's influence on modernist art and architecture. Pairs well with Gavin Stamp's Interwar.
Orme is back with another piece of medieval social history. Here he traces the development of 62 English cathedrals and describes the life and activities that occurred within their walls.
This posthumous publication is based on the revisionist work Stamp did at the end of his life, arguing that interwar Britain was not just an era of intensifying modernism but saw an emergenc... read more
The contemporary Belgian decorator/designter on his own houses, photographed by the incomparable Halard. Spare, restrained, and altogether at odds with the burgeoning Maximalism of the last ... read more