Architecture / Design
We have a range of both coffee table and practical architecture books, as well as books about interior decorating, graphic design, and building.
Shack: In Praise of an Australian Icon
Simon Griffiths
Penguin ISBN 9781920989125
Hardback
Price $AU 39.95
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Photographer Simon Griffiths has travelled the countryside, from Jericho in Tasmania to the remote coast of Broome, to bring us images of shacks that are both familiar and exotic. We meet the shack dwellers - a mix of artists, environmentalists, fishermen, homebuilders and socialites - and experience the pleasure of inhabiting spaces that are at once monuments to self-expression and symbols of old-fashioned common sense. Beautifully put-together, Shack is a book that takes us back in history, out into the remote reaches of the famous Australian landscape and inwards to connect with our common desire for retreat and renewal.
Design*Sponge at Home
Grace Bonney
Artisan ISBN 9781579654313
Hardback
Price $AU 49.95
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Grace Bonney's website Design*Sponge has 60,000 daily readers who love the site for its home tours and makeovers, DIY projects, recipes, videos, and podcasts. Bonney created the site in 2004 as an antidote to the fussy (and expensive) shelter magazines of her mother's generation, turning it into a rallying point for crafty young homeowners everywhere. Culled from her site, but with 50 percent all-new material, Design*Sponge is Bonney's definitive guide to creating a stylish home for young homeowners and renters.
Melbourne Architecture
Philip Goad
Watermark Press ISBN 9780949284891
Paperback
Price $AU 49.95
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Modern Melbourne is an elegant city whose centre has been re- invigorated with energy conserving office and apartment buildings. Its new infrastructure of link roads, freeways and bypasses is enhanced by sculptural screens and overpasses and recent architecture is both thoughtful and inspiring - all good signs for the city's future.