Blackwell is a remarkable artist who creates astonishing tableaux made of cut-out paper; many of her subjects are taken from fairy tales and she often works with the pages of old books. This... read more
Generously illustrated monograph, with many paintings from private collections. May help some customers refrain from breaking the 10th commandment but will no doubt push those truly suscept... read more
The author is an artist, musician and poet. The fables are all his own, improbable and playful - a pair of cross-dressing vultures, a timorous elk, a parliament of quails, an irritable camel... read more
The author (an extremely active American lawyer) guides us through her own eclectic collection, from an ancient Chinese horse sculpture to a metal snail from a hardware store. Most of us wou... read more
The authors took Madame de Pompadour's maiden name for their design company, inspired by their restoration projects and their recreation of C18th domino papers. Their work is enchanting and ... read more
Corberó (1935-2017) was a Catalan sculptor known for his monumental works for public spaces. For nearly fifty years he also constructed an extraordinary modernist labyrinth of buildings on ... read more
Jansen's unusual genius makes one think of Quixote and Leonardo: his huge kinetic sculptures that roam the flat beaches of Holland are extraordinary, wondrous beasts - winged, multi-limbed, ... read more
The second volume in the Boutiques series, beautifully produced - as always - by The Mainstone Press. With an essay by a fairground supremo and Sorbonne professor Pascal Jacob; captions by A... read more
400 shoes that changed the world? Glossy and immense, with lavish images of the collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology, this weighs in at over 4 kilos: steel toecaps advised, wit... read more
A superb book on the life and work of the greatest couturier of the first half of the C20th; lavishly photographed. This is by far the best book on Poiret that has ever been. Glorious dresse... read more