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Mid Century Living: the Butterfly House Collection by Christine Fernyhough; Damian Skinner
$60.00 NZD
Category: architecture
An incurable collector shares her astonishing collection of vintage New Zealand art, objects and design and her classic 1960s seaside bach. For over 30 years, philanthropist and best-selling author of The Road to Castle Hill Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyda ...Show more
Axel Vervoordt: Portraits of Interiors by Axel Vervoordt (Foreword by); Michael James Gardner; Laziz Hamani (Photographer); Boris Vervoordt (Afterword by); Michael Gardner (Text by)
$130.00 NZD
Category: architecture
Eighteen recently designed homes demonstrate how Axel Vervoordt incorporates nature, art, and timeless interiors to create living spaces that encourage self-reflection, inspiration, and happiness. For a half century, Axel Vervoordt's vision has been defined by a continual quest for harmony, beauty, and ...Show more
Repurposed - New Zealand Homes Using Upcycled Materials and Spaces by Catherine Foster
$50.00 NZD
Category: architecture
An on-trend home design book, featuring an inspiring array of homes that have made good use of recycled and upcycled materials, structures, spaces and furnishings. Included in the mix are industrial and farm buildings that have been converted for living and furnished appropriately with vintage and repur ...Show more
Eco Home - Smart Ideas for Sustainable New Zealand Homes by Melinda Williams
$45.00 NZD
Category: architecture
Everything you need to know to build, renovate or just live in an eco-friendly and sustainable way. With loads of inspirational photographs of New Zealand homes, this book is packed full of practical and accessible information. It presents the modern home by moving from room to room, to look at structur ...Show more
Living Big in a Tiny House by Bryce Langston
$50.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Reading Level: near fine
Many of us dream of having a life free from rent, mortgages and utility bills and for some this dream is being achieved by living in a tiny house. Small, compact buildings offer an appealing way to live more sustainably, providing smart, energy-efficient housing at low cost; a route to escaping the fina ...Show more
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett
$20.00 NZD
Category: architecture
Ken Follett will donate his proceeds from this book to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine. 'The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something price ...Show more
Old Houses Made New by Francesc Zamora Mola
$135.00 NZD
Category: architecture
The book is a compendium of homes, including apartment and single--family houses that have been remodeled to suit contemporary lifestyle needs. Rehabilitations of living spaces are often done to reanimate existing constructions that, over time. have become ...,if not obsolete The challenge is to adapt t ...Show more
Our Spaces: Contemporary New Zealand Interiors by Alana Broadhead
$70.00 NZD
Category: architecture
A sourcebook of ideas for contemporary interiors. Our Spaces takes you room by room through some of New Zealand's most stylish and inspiring homes - spaces that are relaxed yet refined, modest yet modern. Both aspirational and instructional, Our Spaces features over 400 beautiful photographs, alongsid ...Show more
Tiny House: Live Small, Dream Big by Brent Heavener
$40.00 NZD
Category: architecture
Having less is the secret to living more. Whether you've been dreaming about a treehouse in the wilderness of Quebec, or a remote mountain cabin in Scotland or the Swiss Alps; driving a campervan on the open roads of Australia, or steering a houseboat along the Canal du Midi - find escape, inspiration a ...Show more
100 Contemporary Houses by Philip Jodidio
$45.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Domestic bliss: Innovative, intimate architecture from China to ChileDesigning private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requir ...Show more
100 Contemporary Wood Buildings by Philip Jodidio
$45.00 NZD
Category: architecture
Timberland: The wooden structures of the 21st century Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefit ...Show more
100 Years of Architecture by Alan Powers
$80.00 NZD
Category: architecture
This unique visual history documents in pictures the most exciting and dynamic period of architecture: from the early 20th century to the present day, covering all the key movements, styles and architects, together with many lesser known but important names and buildings. Through archival and full-colou ...Show more