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19th Century Design

Renoir

Barbara Ehrlich White
£24.95

News from Nowhere

William Morris Out of stock

Places of the Mind

Kim Sloan Out of stock

Bitten By Witch Fever

Lucinda Hawksley
£30.00

Vampyres

Christopher Frayling Out of stock

Crucial Interventions

Richard Barnett
£25.00

Tree of Rivers

John Hemming Out of stock

The Poetic Home

Stefan Muthesius Out of stock

The Arts & Crafts Companion

Pamela Todd Out of stock

The Gothic Revival (World of Art)

Michael J. Lewis Out of stock

Editorial

Delve deeper into the beauty of the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement with six brilliant books, perfect for fans of William Morris.

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Take a look inside master printmaker Anthony Burrill’s wonderful world of printed matter, presented through a personal selection of offbeat ephemera and typographic curiosities.

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The V&A Dundee, designed by internationally renowned architect Kengo Kuma, opened the weekend of 15 September 2018. Take an exclusive look at what's inside.

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Born in 1862, May Morris became an accomplished artist, but her life and work have been obscured: only recently has her talent been fully understood. We celebrate her contribution to art and activism.

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Edgar Degas’s interest in the day-to-day activities of ordinary people changed painting forever, while his commitment to drawing was no less radical.

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It's hard to think of anyone who could have created 'The Grammar of Spice' with its seamless weaving of decoration and reference, poetry and history. As a designer, Caz Hildebrand has worked on books by some of the people most responsible for broadening the vocabulary of seasoning in western cooking, notably Yotam Ottolenghi, and Sam and Sam Clark of Moro. And, as we shall see, she has had her own journey through the understanding of global cuisines, which has tied into her own work.

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Plywood is synonymous with flat-pack furniture or stacks of boards on a building site, but its remarkable versatility has made it indispensable in products from planes, cars and boats to architecture and furniture.

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Drawn from the British Museum's rich collection, 'Places of the Mind' is the first exhibition devoted to British landscape drawings and watercolours. Here we celebrate 60 works that have never before been either exhibited or published.

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The Kelmscott Press was disbanded after William Morris’s death over a century ago, but its ethos of making beautiful books accessible to all has inspired publishers, designers and printers ever since.

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Asylums, madhouses, mental hospitals – Bedlam: the names given to institutions for the mentally ill have changed almost as much as our attitudes. Writer, curator and cultural historian Mike Jay talks about changing perceptions of mental illness since the 17th century.

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