This is the first book to provide both a history of Thai cinema and a visual record of all the associated memorabilia, particularly the highly collectible movie posters.
Price: $24.95

This book highlights the aesthetic break between the two decades, examining the dominant attitudes of each period. By focusing on some of the radical furniture designs by artists such Luigi Colani or Ettore Sottsass, but also on objects of glass, pottery and and fabrics, the shapes of which are typical of the two decades, a definition of the aesthetics of each period is attempted.

It becomes clear that around the year 1980, a paradigmatic change took place on a broad front, a re-evaluation that emphasized multiplicity instead of unity, image instead of function, witty or even aggressive messages instead of good-natured self-reference. In short, that something happened in 1980 which can be read as the definitive end of Modernism and the final arrival of Post-Modernism.

Price: $60.00

It is felt as a medium, or frequently the felting process itself, what dominates the artistic message of many works. Artists like Inge Evers or Claudia Merx, for instance, develop their images directly from felting techniques. Others may be more interested in the sculptural potential of felt or explore its material characteristics like Erich Köster, who turns felt into a stiff material, from which he saws 'technoid' structures, or Ulrike Hau, who makes weapon-shaped felt objects. There are also artists who are attracted by felt's resemblance to skin and thus its connectedness with the body, for example Célio Braga, who considers the body in terms of its vulnerability and frailty. Together with such artistic interpretations, the book illustrates to use of felt in fashion and design.

A comprehensive survey of what artists make of felt at the beginning of the 21st century, recorded in captivating illustrations accompanied by texts illuminating the fascination of felt and its significance in contemporary art and design.

Hardback slipcase made out of felt
Price: $40.00

With over 200 stunning photographs, City Forest is a visual celebration of the forest's remarkable biodiversity, offering a glimpse into the secret world of its wildlife. The park is home to 274 kinds of birds, just under a quarter of India's avifuana; 42 kinds of mammals, 150 species of butterflies and neals 8,000 species of other insects, and so much more. It has a floral extravagance of nearly 800 species of flowering plants from humble herbs and woody climbers to sturdy teak trees and a diversity of habitat types.

A veritable filed laboratory teeming with an amazing variety of life forms - much of which has yet to be documented - the forest is threatened by the inherent problem of an encroaching population. An ieal getaway from the polluted city, this peerless wilderness also provides people with a unique opportunity for nature study.
Price: $49.50

Price: $35.00

Having squirmed through drains, poked into sculleries and cellars, clambered into icehouses and up chimneys of many National Trust buildings, Christina Hardyment has conducted a fascinating quest into the history of housekeeping.
Price: $39.50

Several accounts of aspects of the College history already exist, from Mansfield Forbes' eccentric six-century survey up to 1926 and Richard Eden's Clare College and the Founding of Clare Hall, but nowhere is there a wide-ranging overview of College life and learning through the last century. Nor has any one book attempted to capture the beauty of the College through historical and contemporary illustrations and photographs. Clare through the Twentieth Century achieves all of this and much more. Over thirty individual essays and published extracts and over 140 illustrations - half in color - combine personal recollection, with thoughtful appraisal and colorful prose that ranges from the serious to the plain irreverent. Together they reflect the changes of the last century and look forward to the challenges of the twenty-first.
Price: $70.00

Dogs are illustrated in many diffrent moods and environments, enlivening the pages with the colourful character of dozens of breeds, each with its own attraction and purpose, whether for sport or for show, for domestic use or simply as an adored pet.

Each illustration carries details of the breed, artist and date, and the book is interspersed with pertinent and lively phrases and quotations to bring to life the world of dogs. A preface by William Secord puts the genre of dog painting into its true perspective.
Price: $14.95

Whilst the collecting of antique drinking glasses is very popular throughout Europe, the collecting of utility bottles (1500-1850) has, in contrast, been very much neglected on the Continent in spite of their wide variety of artistic shapes and colours. This book has been written for all collectors, archaeologists, museums, libraries, historians, writers, researchers. institutions, bottle makers, wine and beer enthusiasts, pharmacists and anyone interested in the collecting of antiques and the social history they reflect.

To render this book as comprehensive as possible, the selection of bottles has been carefully chosen from private collections. Only three examples from museums are illustrated which perhaps underlines the lack of interest in bottles shown by museums in the past.
Price: $99.50

The first comprehensive survey of the [oe]uvre of Friedrich Becker, the inventor of kinetic jewelry.
Price: $110.00

The collection of jewels of the nizams of Hyderabad is one of the finest in the world. In addition to turban ornaments, gem-set and enamelled necklaces, earrings, armbands, bracelets, belts and other items of jewelry, it includes twenty-two unset emeralds and the fables 184.50 carat Jacob Diamond - a magnificent South African gem believed to heave been used by the last Nizam as a paperweight.

After the integration of Hyderabad in the Union of India in 1950, Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan instituted a jewelry trust to which he assigned the most important items from the Hyderabad treasury, with the stipulation that they could be sold only after his death. In the nearly three decades since 1972 (when the collection was first offered to the government of India), the unfolding drama of the Nizam's jewels entailed court cases, tantrums, intrigue, conflicting decisions and colossal expenses.

The Jewels of the Nizams documents this unique group of jewels that give credence to legends, apocryphal tales and fading memories of a fabulously wealthy dynasty that ruled the Deccan for seven generations.
Price: $95.00

The book is divided into two parts: Part I contans chapters on the evolution of cutlery design; the ownership of cutlery; the use of cutlery at table, and the etiquette of dining; Part II illustrates the development of eating imprements across five millennia. Introductory texts to each chronological period cover advances in design and usage and the influences from Europe. Descriptive captions accompany the illustrations of over six hundred pieces, especially photographed for the book.

The resulting publication provides both an invaluable reference source for museums, collectors and dealers as well as an important contribution to our knowledge of the presentation of meals at table.

Accompanies an exhibition at Fairfax House, York
Price: $45.00