Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
$45.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity How can we tap into the wisdom inside ourselves? LIVING THE ARTIST'S WAY is a Six-Week Artist's Way Program that explores the fourth essential Artist's Way tool of guidance. Bestselling author Julia Cameron has inspired milli ...Show more
Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design | Reading Level: very good
Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often gone way out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landscape and the contested area of appropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art ...Show more
Maori Weaving: The Art of Creating Maori Textiles by Brian James Bargh, Cherie Taylor and Vanessa Bidois
$20.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Since the ancestors arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand and discovered the useful properties of harakeke (New Zealand flax), Māori have used flax leaves to create baskets, mats, housing materials, clothing, ropes and fishing nets. In weaving and the patterns used, Māori record histories and stories, passin ...Show more
Simply Spaced: A Modern Decluttering Guide for Simplicity and Style at Home by Monica Leed; Melody Mesick
$38.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Simply Spaced is your step-by-step guide for clearing your space, mind, and, most important, clutter from your life. Broken into 11projects that focus on the most problematic areasthat need some extra attention, like kitchens, bathrooms, and home offices, this accessible guide offers inspiring tips, tri ...Show more
Heritage Style: A fresh new take on traditional design by Selina Lake
$59.99 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Our homes are more important to us than ever before, and heritage style harks back to the reassuring comfort of traditional interiors. Panelling, wallpaper, floral fabrics and heritage paint colours provide a backdrop for house plants, artworks and contemporary crafts, while upholstered and wicker fur ...Show more
Villa - From Heritage to Contemporary by Patrick Reynolds; Jeremy Salmond; Jeremy Hansen
$65.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design | Reading Level: very good
Despite the interest in contemporary architecture it's a fact that more people in inner-city suburbs throughout New Zealand end up living in a villa than a house of any other architectural style. Everyone at some stage finds themselves doing some renovation work, and that has tended in recent years to ...Show more
Graham Bennett — Around Every Circle by Graham Bennett, Felicity Milburn, Rosa Shiels, John Freeman-Moir, Barbara Speedy (editor)
$85.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Graham Bennett - Around Every Circle is a sumptuously illustrated portrait of an acclaimed New Zealand-based artist without compromise, who illuminates how we engage with our environment and each other. Three essays by accomplished writers and five image sequences elucidate a practice shaped by curiosit ...Show more
The Art of Looking Up by Catherine McCormack
$55.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design | Reading Level: 6 Craft/Fashion/Art
The Art of Looking Up surveys 40 spectacular ceilings around the globe that have been graced by the brushes of artists including Michelangelo, Marc Chagall and Cy Twombly. From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to the religious i ...Show more
Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm by Clare Reilly
$55.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm is an exploration of New Zealand painter Clare Reilly's life and work. The mixture of autobiographical writing and gorgeous paintings subtly shows how Reilly's art and experiences are entwined. Her themes cover the issues of habitat destruction and renewal, depicting native ...Show more
Kinfolk Islands by John Burns
$90.00 NZD
$100.00 (10% off)
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design | Series: Kinfolk Adventures Ser.
Join Kinfolk on a journey off the beaten track, to islands big and small, in this collection of eighteen new travel stories. Whether it’s a tour of the otherworldly landscape of Socotra in Yemen or a hike into the old growth of a Japanese forest on Yakushima, each slow travel itinerary invites you to se ...Show more
The New Oil Painting - Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices by Kimberly Brooks
$38.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Here is everything you need to know about getting into oil painting--and maintaining a safe, solvent-free oil painting practice--in a slim, sophisticated guide. Oil painting is an exciting and adventurous medium, but aspiring artists can feel daunted by complex setups and the thought of using harsh chem ...Show more
Home by VICTORIA ALEXANDER
$90.00 NZD
Category: Arts, Architecture & Design
Our homes are the very essence of us. They’re where we explore and develop our individuality more deeply than anywhere else. They are a concentrate of all we are. Quintessentially so. They fulfil a human desire and are about the human heart. Our need for wellbeing is deep seated and how we choose to liv ...Show more