Bold building with timber, even in tall structures: Ban, the Japanese architect who won the Pritzker prize in 2014, also uses paper, adobe and other sustainable materials in innovative ways.... read more
A sumptuous reprint of d'Hancarville's catalogue of Hamilton's Greek vases, with its fabulous hand-coloured engraved plates splendidly reproduced. First published in Naples in the 1760s, the... read more
Skims through a dozen gardens in all their glory, green or golden, all over England. Nichols is a fabulous photographer of gardens and this will be a visual feast.
Garcia has converted a Baroque monastery near Noto in Sicily: there are pearls around some of the gilded doorways and a large temple in the garden. Not for the austere or faint-hearted. Spl... read more
First volume of Freud's letters - irreverent, affectionate, scurrilous - reproduced in facsimile. Many illustrations and beautifully produced in dun cloth.
The two great cabinet-makers worked together for nearly half a century; their clientele and influence were on a par with those of their more famous contemporary, Thomas Chippendale. This mag... read more
Distils the ideas of half a dozen C20th conservative (small 'c') intellectuals. The imperfection of the Westminster parliamentary model, and democratic systems at large, was one of the few t... read more
This is a fascinating illustrated book on the often elaborate and arresting labels used by British textile manufacturers when exporting to India during the Raj.
The work of Lucien Boucher, 37 of whose marvellous lithographs of Parisian shop fronts are reproduced here, along with an extended, illustrated essay by James Russell and Shaun Whiteside's t... read more
A scholarly approach to the gardens of the Petit Trianon and Malmaison, looking at their design and use as liminal spaces under Marie-Antoinette, the empresses Josephine, Marie-Louise and Eu... read more
From his early figurative work to his late colour field paintings. The text is by Rothko's children, with contributions by the art historian Alexander Nemerov, and by Hiroshi Sugimoto, the J... read more
Large format retrospective of Leibovitz's work. This was previously published in 2014, as a so-called 'Sumo' edition. Weighing in at 26kg, that vast book required Sumo-strength to lift it, a... read more
Based on a single private collection, this is the most comprehensive book there has been on the subject. Wonderful pictures, and a valuable reference work.
There are only 1000 copies of this in existence, and they are all being sold through real bookshops rather than by online multinationals. Covering 75 years, it is an updated version of the 2... read more