Aqua - 5 Book Bundle
Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition Volume II by Grayson Perry and Swan Films - Published: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery - 13-01-2022 - 276 pages.
Art - Art Reference, History & Theory - During the pandemic, Grayson Perry helped the nation find comfort and company through art during the hit TV series Grayson’s Art Club by Swan Films for Channel 4.
Each week Grayson hosted the show from his studio with his wife, Philippa (and often their cat, Kevin). Using video chat, Grayson spoke to famous artists and creatives about how they were spending their time and invited them to respond creatively to lockdown. Each week had a different theme – family, nature, food, dreams, work, and travel.
Members of the public were also invited to share their own artworks and over 17,000 entries were submitted throughout series two in a vast range of mediums – from paintings and photography, to ceramics and textiles.
Collectively, the artworks are powerful and very personal responses to the pandemic and form a lasting artistic record of the unprecedented times the nation experienced together.
The artworks from season two are collected here to catalogue the exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
V&A Bags by Claire Wilcox and Elizabeth Currie - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 13-04-2017 - 160 pages.
Fashion & Jewelry - Fashion & Textiles - Illuminating the evolution of bag designs and uses from the medieval period to today, the author explores early drawstring creations and richly worked ecclesiastical purses, before looking at large work bags of the 18th century, and by contrast the small reticules that were designed to complement high-waisted Empire line dresses. Increased travel in the 19th century brought about the leather handbag as we know it today, while the 20th century saw an explosion of innovations, from 1930s designs reflecting the streamlined American aesthetic and the use of new synthetics such as imitation patent and Vynide, to the rise of the luxury designer handbag by the likes of Hermès, Gucci, Chanel and Prada. After a general introduction, chronological chapters unfold, illustrated throughout; a detailed glossary, bibliography and index conclude the book. An inspiring, impeccably researched and concise history of bags through the ages, Bags: A Brief History is a musthave resource for students, designers and lovers of fashion and costume.
Artists' Homes: Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers by Tom Harfor Thompson - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 27-09-2018 - 288 pages.
Lifestyle - Interiors & Gardens - In Artists’ Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspaces, from a music producer’s studio in Hackney to an eco-warrior’s treehouse on the Sussex Downs. His evocative photographs show how our live/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse or a reclaimed factory, are beautiful because of the lives we live in them. With work no longer separate from home life, we see how these artists function in the homes that inspire them, pursuing the life creative.
Among the artists and craftspeople featured are Billy Childish, co-founder of the Stuckist art movement; Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher, creative partners who set up their home and studio as an ‘anarchist-pacifist open house’ (Dial House, in Essex); music producer Liam Watson of the famed London studio Toe Rag; vintage motorcycle dealer Ian Hatton, of cult shop Verrall’s; vintner Peter Hall of Breaky Bottom Vineyard, one of the first wineries in the UK; and many more.
Yves Béhar fuseproject: Designing Ideas by Yves Béhar and Adam Fisher - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 15-07-2021 - 420 pages.
Design - Product Design - Since founding his studio fuseproject in 1999, Yves Béhar has redefined the role of the designer, expanding his work to encompass client commissions alongside public-sector work and entrepreneurial engagements. In doing so, Béhar has produced groundbreaking, award-winning designs that have had a positive impact on the well-being of people in developing countries and impoverished communities, creating everything from laptops and spectacles for children to stylish electronics. His clients have included MIT Media Lab, BMW, Microsoft, Swarovski and many more.
A comprehensive retrospective of Béhar’s twenty-year career, this book presents his work in topical thematic chapters – 'Reducing', 'Sensing', 'Transforming', 'Giving', 'Humanizing' and 'Scaling' – and explores over sixty projects in detail, through text descriptions, sketches and exquisite studio photography. Offering thorough and sometimes personal insights into the conception, process and production of some of the most recognized pieces of contemporary design, this monograph illuminates the designer’s particular fusion of creativity and commercial savvy, as well as his studio’s expertise in combining the latest Silicon Valley technologies with social responsibility and business acumen.
With 730 illustrations in colour
The Valley by Fabrice Hyber and Bruce Albert - Published: Fondation Cartier - 26-01-2023 - 248 pages.
Art - Modern & Contemporary Art - French artist Fabrice Hyber is moving between the worlds of science and art. Green is his color; drawing, painting, sculpture, and video are his playgrounds, along with a lush valley of almost seventy hectares in the West of France, where he has planted over 100,000 trees since the 1990s. From an early age, he enjoyed collecting and planting seeds from service, pine, cypress, and maple trees, and observing the movements of streams, plants, and the changes in the trees around him. Staying true to his childhood hobbies, he still delights in expanding and enriching the world.
This catalogue will bring together nearly 100 paintings by Fabrice Hyber, as well as a rich portfolio illustrating the creation and development of the Valley. It will be accompanied by contributions from anthropologist Bruce Albert, philosopher Emanuele Coccia, contemporary art historian Pascal Rousseau, and virologist Olivier Schwartz.
Art - Art Reference, History & Theory - During the pandemic, Grayson Perry helped the nation find comfort and company through art during the hit TV series Grayson’s Art Club by Swan Films for Channel 4.
Each week Grayson hosted the show from his studio with his wife, Philippa (and often their cat, Kevin). Using video chat, Grayson spoke to famous artists and creatives about how they were spending their time and invited them to respond creatively to lockdown. Each week had a different theme – family, nature, food, dreams, work, and travel.
Members of the public were also invited to share their own artworks and over 17,000 entries were submitted throughout series two in a vast range of mediums – from paintings and photography, to ceramics and textiles.
Collectively, the artworks are powerful and very personal responses to the pandemic and form a lasting artistic record of the unprecedented times the nation experienced together.
The artworks from season two are collected here to catalogue the exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
V&A Bags by Claire Wilcox and Elizabeth Currie - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 13-04-2017 - 160 pages.
Fashion & Jewelry - Fashion & Textiles - Illuminating the evolution of bag designs and uses from the medieval period to today, the author explores early drawstring creations and richly worked ecclesiastical purses, before looking at large work bags of the 18th century, and by contrast the small reticules that were designed to complement high-waisted Empire line dresses. Increased travel in the 19th century brought about the leather handbag as we know it today, while the 20th century saw an explosion of innovations, from 1930s designs reflecting the streamlined American aesthetic and the use of new synthetics such as imitation patent and Vynide, to the rise of the luxury designer handbag by the likes of Hermès, Gucci, Chanel and Prada. After a general introduction, chronological chapters unfold, illustrated throughout; a detailed glossary, bibliography and index conclude the book. An inspiring, impeccably researched and concise history of bags through the ages, Bags: A Brief History is a musthave resource for students, designers and lovers of fashion and costume.
Artists' Homes: Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers by Tom Harfor Thompson - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 27-09-2018 - 288 pages.
Lifestyle - Interiors & Gardens - In Artists’ Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspaces, from a music producer’s studio in Hackney to an eco-warrior’s treehouse on the Sussex Downs. His evocative photographs show how our live/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse or a reclaimed factory, are beautiful because of the lives we live in them. With work no longer separate from home life, we see how these artists function in the homes that inspire them, pursuing the life creative.
Among the artists and craftspeople featured are Billy Childish, co-founder of the Stuckist art movement; Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher, creative partners who set up their home and studio as an ‘anarchist-pacifist open house’ (Dial House, in Essex); music producer Liam Watson of the famed London studio Toe Rag; vintage motorcycle dealer Ian Hatton, of cult shop Verrall’s; vintner Peter Hall of Breaky Bottom Vineyard, one of the first wineries in the UK; and many more.
Yves Béhar fuseproject: Designing Ideas by Yves Béhar and Adam Fisher - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 15-07-2021 - 420 pages.
Design - Product Design - Since founding his studio fuseproject in 1999, Yves Béhar has redefined the role of the designer, expanding his work to encompass client commissions alongside public-sector work and entrepreneurial engagements. In doing so, Béhar has produced groundbreaking, award-winning designs that have had a positive impact on the well-being of people in developing countries and impoverished communities, creating everything from laptops and spectacles for children to stylish electronics. His clients have included MIT Media Lab, BMW, Microsoft, Swarovski and many more.
A comprehensive retrospective of Béhar’s twenty-year career, this book presents his work in topical thematic chapters – 'Reducing', 'Sensing', 'Transforming', 'Giving', 'Humanizing' and 'Scaling' – and explores over sixty projects in detail, through text descriptions, sketches and exquisite studio photography. Offering thorough and sometimes personal insights into the conception, process and production of some of the most recognized pieces of contemporary design, this monograph illuminates the designer’s particular fusion of creativity and commercial savvy, as well as his studio’s expertise in combining the latest Silicon Valley technologies with social responsibility and business acumen.
With 730 illustrations in colour
The Valley by Fabrice Hyber and Bruce Albert - Published: Fondation Cartier - 26-01-2023 - 248 pages.
Art - Modern & Contemporary Art - French artist Fabrice Hyber is moving between the worlds of science and art. Green is his color; drawing, painting, sculpture, and video are his playgrounds, along with a lush valley of almost seventy hectares in the West of France, where he has planted over 100,000 trees since the 1990s. From an early age, he enjoyed collecting and planting seeds from service, pine, cypress, and maple trees, and observing the movements of streams, plants, and the changes in the trees around him. Staying true to his childhood hobbies, he still delights in expanding and enriching the world.
This catalogue will bring together nearly 100 paintings by Fabrice Hyber, as well as a rich portfolio illustrating the creation and development of the Valley. It will be accompanied by contributions from anthropologist Bruce Albert, philosopher Emanuele Coccia, contemporary art historian Pascal Rousseau, and virologist Olivier Schwartz.
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