Art, Design & Architecture

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...

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...

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

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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...

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...

John O'Regan - Charles Tyrell - Gandon Editions - Works 15 - Irish Artist

interview by Brian FallonISBN 978 0946641 413 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 18 illus Charlie Tyrrell’s early paintings were influenced by the work of American Abstract Expressionists, but these gave way to works concerned with geometric...

John O'Regan - Eithne Jordan - Gandon Editions - Works 16 - Irish Artist

  ISBN 9780946641420     32 pages (paperback)    20x15cm    17 illus Many influences have touched Eithne Jordan’s work. Since her emotionally charged early paintings, Jordan’s work has become more concerned...

John O'Regan - Mary Fitzgerald - Gandon Editions - Works 6 - Irish Artist

interview by Felicity Woolf; intro by the artistISBN 978 0946641 239 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 22 illus Mary Fitzgerald’s interest in addressing aspects of Eastern and Western culture informs her work. In this book she discusses the language of...

Anne Van Der Linden / Freak Wave No 1 - La Vague Scélérate (Large Paperback)

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John O'Regan -Charles Brady - Gandon Editions - Works 9 - Irish Artist

essay by Charles Brady; intro by Desmond MacAvockISBN 978 0946641 307 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 18 illus Charlie Brady was an American painter who made Ireland in home in 1956. Much influenced by the New York Abstract Expressionists, over time he...

Nabeel Hamdi / Small Change - The Limits of Planning in Cities (Large Paperback)

What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the...

The Pepin Press / Signs and Symbols (Large Paperback)

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Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED

Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006.  A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) .  1st (and sole)  Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large...

John Shinnors - Adult Reading at Artists Bedtime - HB - Illustrated

“Adult Reading at Artist’s Bedtime” features illustrated stories from the sketchbooks of John Shinnors, one of Ireland’s foremost artists. His paintings often combine the figurative and abstract at once, with distinctive coloured...

Edward Denison, Jonathan Glancey / 30 SECOND ARCHITECTURE (Large Paperback)

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D.H. Lawrence / Etruscan Places (Large Paperback)

D. H. Lawrence visited Etruria in central Italy in April, 1927. It was his "last pilgrimage". There sprang from it a documentary account which is both literary guide and spiritual testament, a global vision of the Etruscan civilization...

NGI - French 19th and 20th Century Painting from the National Gallery of Ireland - Corot to Picasso - PB

In English and Japanese, accompanied a touring exhibition to Japan of the artworks.   

Gustav Dore - The Doré Gift Book of Illustrations to the Idylls of the King - HB Illustrated

The plates bring together Doré's illustrations from Tennyson's poem sequence Idylls of the King, namely Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinivere. These were each published separately by London publisher Moxon. "One of the finest lyrists of the English...

Tony Davidson / Confessions of a Highland Art Dealer

This is a story a young, ambitious art dealer who transforms an old church into one of Scotland's top commercial art galleries. It introduces us to the often-unseen lives of Scottish artists and reveals global changes over the last quarter century...

Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015

Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) 

FREMTID FORMES INDUSTRIDESIGN ( Shaping Futures - Industrial Design )

First Edition, Danish and English text, architecture and industrial design book, entitled "Fremtid Formes (Shaping Futures)" is written by The Institute of Industrial Design and this book was published to celebrate the institute's 25th anniversary...

Finola O'Kane & Ellen Rowley - Making Belfield : Space and Place at UCD - HB

DescriptionRichly designed and illustrated, Making Belfield reflects on the making and shaping of UCD to celebrate 50 years of college life at Belfield (Belfield 50). Dipping in and out of recent architectural histories and older and more far flung...

Alan Fletcher - Picturing and Poeting - HB Phaidon Press 2006

Follow-up volume to the best-selling The Art of Looking Sideways, Picturing and Poeting is a collection of mind-bending images and creative wordplay from Alan Fletcher, one of the most internationally influential figures in graphic design. Published by...

Robert Hughes - American Visions : The Epic History of Art in America - PB 1999

First paperback edition, Harvill Press UK 1999 (Originally published in 1997) .  In excellent condition, no marks or damage noted, large format paperback.  Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his...

S.C. Curl / Dictionary of Architecture

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Michael Warren - Places - PB - 1993

Although clearly concerned with formal Modernist qualities such as texture, surface, weight equilibrium and balance, at the core of Michael Warren's art lies something far less tangible - an examination of what it means for human beings to be in the...

Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW)

    ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us...

Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses

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Michael Tambini / The Look of the Century

In a new and exciting approach to design, objects from toothbrushes to trains, from jewelry to jukeboxes, from clocks to clothing to calculators to coffee tables, are examined in detail. Each spread focuses on a specific item and shows the...

Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948

Hardcover,  Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back...

Paolo Martegani / Digital Design

The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the...

Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably...

Trevor White - Malton's Views of Dublin : The Story of a Georgian City - HB - BRAND NEW

Commentary by Trevor White with essays by Diarmuid Ó Gráda, David Dickson, Graham Hickey, Merlo Kelly and Kathryn Milligan. HARDCOVER, BRAND NEW.  In the 1790s a young artist decided to create a portrait of Dublin. James...

Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW

Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and...

Frank McDonald - A Little History of the Future of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW

A superb analysis by Frank McDonald on the past, present and future of Dublin as imagined by various planners over its history (as well as the various ideas of the ‘future’ of the city they suggested), coinciding with an exhibition on the...

Bill Hubbard Jr. / A Theory for Practice: Architecture in Three Discourses (Hardback)

To speak comprehensively about a building today requires that we think about the building in three different ways - as an instance of architectural order, as an embodiment of values about living, and as an instrument for bringing about results. With this...

Virginia Postrel / The Substance of Style : How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (Hardback)

From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and...

Michael Klein, Steve Valk / Book of Recommendations - Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change(Vintage Paperback)

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Judith and Roy Christy / Making Pottery (Vintage Paperback).

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William Boyd / Nat Tate : An American Artist (Hardback)

Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and...

Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - The Medium is the Massage - PB Illustrated

  The Medium is the Massage by Mashall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, paperback reprint, published by Bantam USA.  Iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, and a key text of media and communications theory. This book went on, after multiple...

Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback)

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Ethna Le Masney - The International Style House, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003

An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor.  The book is bound in...