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The Embodied Image - Imagination and Imagery in Architecture by Juhani Pallasmaa
$66.95 AUD
Category: Essays & theory | Series: Architectural Design Primer
Architecture is usually analyzed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image. Written by distinguished writer and architect Juhani Pallasmaa, this book examines at the image in culture; the nature of the image ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
The Thinking Hand by Juhani Pallasmaa
$73.95 AUD
Category: Essays & theory | Series: Architectural Design Primer Ser.
In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. 'The Thinking Hand' is ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly ...Show more
Vogue on: Christian Dior by Charlotte Sinclair
$29.95 AUD
Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection; his 'New Look' featured designs that transformed the way women dressed. Dior continued to send shockwaves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape during the ten years of his career as a couturier. Thi ...Show more
Vogue On: Coco Chanel by Bronwyn Cosgrave
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Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
Hailed as 'the most influential female designer of the twentieth century', Coco Chanel pioneered classic easy-to-wear fashion for the modern woman. She arrived on the fashion scene when feathers, lace and ostentatious beads were favourites, and proceeded to re-invent couture using new materials, like je ...Show more
Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga by Susan Irvine
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Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1936, Cristobal Balenciaga opened a fashion house in Paris, after fleeing the Spanish civil war; within a couple of seasons he had raised fashion to the level of art. Christian Dior called Balenciaga 'the master of us all', while Coco Chanel claimed that he alone was 'a couturier in the truest sense ...Show more
Vogue on Gianni Versace by Charlotte Sinclair
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Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
Gianni Versace created a fashion house that, as Vogue declared, defined late twentieth-century glamour, invented the supermodel and sanctioned in the public consciousness a supremely self-assured feminine sexuality.' His debut line in 1978 was instantly successful; in the Eighties, his extravagant desig ...Show more
Vogue on Giorgio Armani by Kathy Phillips
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Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
Armani's style is elegance and sensual simplicity incarnate. 'Few names in fashion conjure so distinctive a look,' said Vogue. For Armani, design has always been about an easy, timeless grace, not constantly changing trends; clothes meant to compliment the body, not merely cover it. With his careful rem ...Show more
Vogue on Hubert De Givenchy by Drusilla Beyfus
$29.95 AUD
Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
The handsome, aristocratic Hubert de Givenchy blended the hallowed traditions of haute couture with a modern sensibility. For 40 years he focused always on purity of line, but combined an artist's eye with a keen entrepreneurial mind. His innovative 1952 debut collection made its mark by presenting sepa ...Show more
Vogue on Ralph Lauren by Kathleen Baird-Murray
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Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
Ralph Lauren's designs vividly embody the American Dream and he has risen to become his country's foremost fashion designer. His visionary ability has created a multi-billion-dollar brand, still very successful almost 50 years on. His genius lies in his innate skill for interpreting key cultural element ...Show more
Vogue on Vivienne Westwood by Linda Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Design & Designers | Series: Vogue on Designers
Secondhand. A provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition. From the mini crini, the liberty corset and the rocking-horse shoe to ...Show more