Secondhand Design Books

In today's unsustainable world of goods, where products are desired, purchased, briefly used and then promptly landfilled to make way for more, consumption and waste are rapidly spiralling out of...

Each volume in this series highlights the work of a renowned 20th-century architect. Featuring four-colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, detailed plans, generous layouts and brief, comprehensive texts, these books...

The Architecture of Happiness is Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well beingBestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and...

Following on from the success of previous issues, Character Design Quarterly issue 04 brings you exciting new techniques from top industry professionals as they explore character design through in-depth tutorials,...

For the first time, best-selling author Caroline Wrey shows how to make her elegant curtains using full-colour step-by-step photography. You can actually see what she is doing and how she...

This guide to decorating your home offers stylish living ranges from medieval to contemporary and from Japanese minimalism to Mexican exuberance. The author defines each style and shows how to...

Interiors based on predominant shades of white or cream, with the texture of bare wood for contrast, are a feature of many cultures, from the cooler climates of Scandinavia to...

Fragrance is as vital a part of your home as colour and texture. It can add depth to an otherwise stark room, warmth to a cold space, create a mood...

Forget perfection - Decorating with Style gives you the confidence to take risks with interior design, embrace what you love, and fill your home with infectiously fabulous stuff: comforting, inviting...

London is the world's leading creative hub, aided by the winning combination of British sophistication and capital cosmopolitanism - not to mention the energy generated by the Olympic Games -...

In fewer than fifty years video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment, but which are the best games, the ones you must play? Video game...

"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love TypographyThe best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition:...

Editorial Design presents designers with everything they need to know to create their own layouts, connecting editorial design history with current practice to enlighten and inspire the beginner as well...

A celebration of Tom Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004, created with the designer's full cooperation. This colossal, slip-cased deluxe volume showcases...