Thermal Design of Buildings - Understanding Heating, Cooling and Decarbonisation by Phillip Jones
$79.99 NZD
Category: architecture
The way we heat, cool and ventilate our buildings is central to many of today's concerns, including providing comfortable, healthy and productive environments, using energy and materials efficiently, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As we drive towards a zero-carbon society, design solutions that ...Show more
Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister
$80.00 NZD
Category: Design
The projects in this book began as a list Stefan Sagmeister found in his diary under the title "Things I have learned in my life so far." Given an incredible amount of freedom by some of his clients, he began transforming these aphorisms into typographic works; they have since appeared as French and Por ...Show more
This Brutal World by Peter Chadwick (Artist)
$70.00 NZD
Category: architecture
A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern blo ...Show more
This Is Home: The Art of Simple Living by Natalie Walton
$60.00 NZD
Category: Design
This Is Home is about simple living - how to focus on our values to create authentic homes full of meaning and joy. Natalie Walton steps inside fifteen homes across the world to meet the people who made them, and discover whether there is some universality to what makes us happy in the spaces we inhabit ...Show more
This Model World by Byrt Anthony
$45.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
In April 2011, Anthony Byrt was living in Berlin and building a career as a critic, writing about contemporary art for magazines like frieze and Artforum International. Then one day his world turned upside down. A baby boy, two weeks in intensive care, and Byrt, his wife and new-born son suddenly found ...Show more
This is Frank Lloyd Wright by Ian Volner
$27.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: This is
Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success. This Is Frank Lloyd Wright brings his projects and persona into vivid focus. Wit and visual punch ...Show more
Tiny House - Live Small, Dream Big by Brent Heavener
$40.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Reading Level: near fine
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
Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die - Punk and Post-Punk Graphic Design by Andrew Kirvine
$65.00 NZD
Category: Design
A collection of over 650 original scans of printed ephemera and memorabilia from the prime years of the punk and post-punk movements. Andrew Krivine found himself and punk in the summer of 1977, when staying with a cousin who was at the heart of the protean movement in London. Since then he has amassed ...Show more
Trees: Between Earth and Heaven by Art Wolfe (Photographer); Gregory McNamee; Daniel J. Hinkley (Foreword by); Wade Davis (Introduction by)
$95.00 NZD
Category: photography
Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia. From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths--from Bud ...Show more
Trends Inspiring Homes - Celebrating 25 Years of New Zealand Trends by Justin Foote
$30.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Reading Level: very good
Trends Publishing International celebrates its first 25 years in the New Zealand publishing industry. In that time, the Trends series has established itself as the dominant home design publication across the diversity of the New Zealand home market. Trends: Inspiring Homes celebrates with 22 outstandi ...Show more
Tricia Guild Paint Box : 45 palettes for choosing colour texture and pattern by Guild Tricia
$52.00 NZD
Category: Design
Tricia Guild has spent her life working with colour, pattern and texture to create beautiful rooms and producing collections of paint, fabric and wallpapers from her own signature colour palettes. In this inspiring and practical book Tricia lifts the lid on her `paint box', providing visual inspiration, ...Show more
Truffaut by Robert Ingram
$25.00 NZD
Category: General
From "The 400 Blows" to "Jules and Jim" to "The Last Metro", Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) practically defined the French cinema of his era and was one of the founders of the New Wave which took the industry by storm in the late 1950s. His endlessly touching and romantic films - always tinged by a touch ...Show more