Art, Design & Architecture

SEDDON TONY / Draw Your Own Fonts (Coffee Table Book)

Hand-drawn lettering has never been more popular, and every home designer is in on the act, creating energetic, quirky fonts that seem to jump off the screen, the poster or the page. To the uninitiated this free design can seem a little intimidating...

DAVIES LUCY / Arts and Crafts of South America (Coffee Table Book)

A wooden head carved in the north of Brazil to ward off evil spirits; belts woven with symbolic designs from Lake Titicaca in Peru; the beautiful baskets of the Cholo Indians of the Pacific coast of Colombia. Whether from coastal areas, forests or...

John Berger / Berger on Drawing (Coffee Table Book)

Berger on Drawing is a new anthology of essays in which John Berger explores that most primary and most primal of all art activities: drawing.The 16 texts are gathered from nearly half a century of the author’s engagement with the activity of...

Edward S. Casey / Representing Place: Landscape Painting And Maps (Coffee Table Book)

You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space—as well as our place in it—is the...

Susan M. Pearce / Interpreting Objects and Collections (Coffee Table Book)

Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.       This book is second hand, and while you...

Keri Smith / How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Coffee Table Book)

From the author of Wreck this Journal , Keri Smith's How to be an Explorer of the World is an invitation to rediscover the world around you. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting,...

ROADS Reflections / Theatres (Coffee Table Book)

This is a truly stunning photographic exploration of world's finest, most innovative, and dynamic theatre spaces, from ancient amphitheaters to modern marvels. If, "Theatre is the greatest of all art forms", as Oscar Wilde declared, surely it should...

Alberto Manguel / Reading Pictures : A History of Love and Hate (Coffee Table Book)

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more...

Ben Street / 200 Words to Help You Talk About Art (Hardback)

Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a...

Célia Bertin / Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures (Hardback)

Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures is the first biography of this master of modern cinema--the director of Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game, The River, and other classics. Clia Bertin tells Renoir's story from his magical childhood to his first success in...

Jack Fitzsimons - Bungalow Bliss - 3rd Edition July 1973 - House Plans - Vintage

Bungalow Bliss was the book that “changed the face of rural Ireland” (Sunday Press, August 16, 1981). Its unlikely that any other single book ( and the multitude of imitators that it spawned) had a longer lasting impact on the Irish than...

David B. Berman / Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World (Large Paperback)

Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project. How does design help choose our leaders?Why do we really have an environmental crisis?How can accessible design broaden your audience?Why does the U.S. economy...

Robert Henri , Margery Ryerson / The Art Spirit (Large Paperback)

In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration...

K.J Barton - Pottery in England From 3500BC - 1730AD - HB - 1975

Published by David & Charles UK, 1975, smaller format hardcovert in dustjacket.  Photography throughout in b&w, with maps, line drawings etc. 

Matthew Hart / The Irish Game : A True Story of Crime and Art (Large Paperback)

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough,...

Elie Faure - L'Art Renaissant ( Histoire de l'art) - PB - 1964

Publsihed by Livre de Poche, PARIS 1964 Text entirely in French - illustrated with b&w photographs of Renaissance art)  Text on spine is sunfaded. 

Llewellynn Jewitt - The Ceramic Art of Great Britain - HB 1985 Facsimile ( Originally 1877)

The Ceramic Art of Great Britain is a comprehensive guide to the history of British pottery and ceramics, written by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt and first published in 1883. The book provides a detailed overview of the development of ceramic art...

101 Celtic Illuminated Letters / Courtney Davis (Large Paperback)

A comprehensive design source book of all types of Celtic illuminated letters by leading exponent of Celtic art, Courtney Davis. The 101 illuminated letters reflects the history of Celtic design from the earliest examples to Courtney Davis's own...

Martyn Turner - The Book : 10 Years of Cartoons from the Irish Times - 1983

Paperback, published by the Irish Times 1983, covering a decade of cartoonist and satirist Martyn Turner's carttons for the paper.  Global and Irish politics are covered.  This copy from the library of the former Tánaiste John Wilson,...

Salvador Dalí, Philippe Halsman / Dalí's Mustache (Hardback)

With 101 Life magazine covers to his credit, Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was one of the leading portrait photographers of his time. In addition to his distinguished career in photojournalism, Halsman was one of the great pioneers of experimental...

Taschen Publications - The Circus 1870'S-1950'S - HB - Slipcased - 2021

Edition: Multilingual (Text ( all text)  in English, French, German) In its heyday, the American circus was the largest showbiz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling circuses performed for audiences of up to...

Parragon Books / Watercolour and Sketching for Beginners (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Ralph Mayer / The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms & Techniques (Large Paperback)

The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, 2nd edition, contains over 3,200 clear definitions of terns encountered in the study and practice of the visual arts and in their literature. It covers all forms of easel and mural paintings,...

Robert Mugerauer / Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses (Environ Architect Phen (Large Paperback)

In this book, Mugerauer emphasizes the interplay between European continental philosophy and North American environments and architecture. Drawing on a keen understanding of conceptual trends in both scholarship and the design professions, he clarifies...

James Howard Kunstler / The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Large Paperback)

The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon...

John Berger - Permanent Red - PB

Paperback, previous owner's name to title page.  1981 reprint of the 1960 original - published by Writers and Readers Co-Op.  In Permanent Red , John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to...

Declan Ryan & Dan Edwards - Dan Edwards : The Life and Times of a Craftsman and Artist - HB - 2016

Dan Edwards – The Life & Times of a Craftsman & Artist By Declan Ryan and Dan Edwards Dan Edwards, blacksmith, craftsman and artist, is a man with a huge depth of artistic creativity. He is a quiet scholar of history, literature, legend and...

Anne Crookshank & The Knight of Glin - The Watercolours of Ireland ( Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint 1600-1914) - HB

Published by Barrie & Jenkins UK , 1994.  A detailed and profusely illustrated guide to Irish watercolour art, large format hardcover, by two experts in Irish art and antiques.   

Mauro F. Guillén / The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture (Large Paperback)

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford’s assembly...

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography - PB

Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography.Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an...

Eoin Ó Broin & Mal McCann - Flats and Cottages Herbert Simms and the Housing of Dublin's Working Class 1932-1948

A city gripped by an ever-worsening housing crisis. An expensive and insecure private rental sector. Rogue landlords running overcrowded and poorly maintained flats. Central and local government struggling to keep up with population growth and...

Mark Carruthers & Colin Davidosn- Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings: Conversations with Mark Carruthers (Hardback) - BRAND NEW

Twelve Paintings is an intimate and compelling exploration of the life and work of renowned artist Colin Davidson. Structured around a series of deeply personal conversations with broadcaster Mark Carruthers, the book uses twelve key works - from early...

Bruce Sterling / Shaping Things (Large Paperback)

A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's...

Ulrich Conrads / Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architechture (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Reyner Banham / Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (Large Paperback)

First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced...

Steen Eiler Rasmussen / Experiencing Architecture (Large Paperback)

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater...

Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback)

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology...

Martin Gayford - A Bigger Message : Conversations With David Hockney - HB - 2011

Published by Thames & Hudson UK , 2011, Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and reproductions of artwork.  David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original...

Claudia Kinmonth - Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 - PB

This major illustrated study ( Yale UP, 1993) investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small...

ROSC - The Irish Imagination 1959-1971 - PB ( Irish 20th CenturyArt)

An illustrated guide, in catalogue format , to notable Irish artworks and artists of the early 1970's. 

Frank Martin - Hollywood - Continental - HB - 1988

Frank Martin was one of the foremost British graphic artists of the 20th century. He was a master printmaker, a commercial illustrator and a teacher of graphic arts. Published by Academy Editions/ St. Martin's Press, 1988, with essays  on the artist...

Thomas Hoving / False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes (Large Paperback)

Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture—fine art collecting—Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams.False Impressions from Thomas Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the...

Peter Roebuck / In It To Win It The Australian Cricket Supremacy (Large Paperback)

Australia's leading cricket writer describes and analyses Australia's cricket supremacy over the last three decades - the players, the tactics, the controversies.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Constance Rubini / The Little Book of Miro (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

David Carrier / The Aesthetics of Comics (Large Paperback)

From Gary Larson’s The Far Side to George Herriman’s Krazy Kat , comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the...

Alastair Duncan / Art Deco (Large Paperback)

Examples are given of art deco furniture, textiles, ironwork, lighting,silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, posters, books, jewellery,and architecture.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

John Killen - John Bull's Famous Circus : Ulster History Through Postcards 1905-1985 - HB

John Killen's book, "John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard, 1905-1985," uses postcards as a historical source to illustrate the social, political, and cultural landscape of Ulster. The title, "John Bull's Famous Circus," is a...

Roger Coleman - The Art Of Work : An Epitaph to Skill - HB - 1988

Published by Pluto Press, 1988, examines the relationship between work and art, in a aworld where technology seemed poised to transform both.   

Brian P Kennedy - Dreams and Responsibilities : The State and the Arts in Independent Ireland - HB - 1988

Hardcover, published by the author ( in association with the Arts Council) [1988]? ( undated)  A detailed history of how governments interacted with the arts sector in Ireland since independence, with a particular focus on the Arts Council and its...

Kate Shelley & Clodagh Murphy - Wild Atlantic Pen - PB - COLOURING

John O'Regan -Gwen O'Dowd - Gandon Editions - Works 13 - Irish Artist

interview and intro by Rosemarie MulcahyISBN 978 0946641 390 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 18 illus Gwen O’Dowd’s highly individual style and the tactile quality of paintings puts her at the vanguard of Irish landscape painting. As the artist...

John O'Regan -John T Davis - Gandon Editions - Works 11 - Irish Artist

interview by John O’ReganISBN 978 0946641 321 32 pages (paperback) 20 x 15 cm 17 illus John T Davis’s first experience of film-making came about through a chance encounter with the legendary film-maker DA Pennebaker in Belfast in 1966. Many...