Blue - 5 Book Bundle

The Naked Nude by Frances Borzello - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 2022-08-18 - 224 pages.

The story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas.

The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless – its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clark’s classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with today’s depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time.

Borzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range of international artists creating contemporary nudes. Her fascinating text is complemented by a profusion of well-chosen, unusual and beautifully reproduced illustrations. The story begins with a tale of life, death and resurrection – an investigation into how and why the nude has survived and flourished in an art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapters take a thematic approach, focusing in turn on Body art and Performance art, the new perspectives of women artists, the nude in painting, portraiture and sculpture and in its most extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundaries of both art and our comfort zone. The final chapter illustrates radical developments in art and culture over the last decade, focusing in particular on artworks by women, trans artists and artists of colour. Borzello links these works to their art-historical and political predecessors, demonstrating the continually unending capacity of the nude to disrupt traditional hierarchies and gender categories in life and art.

Wild Kitchen: Nature-Loving Chefs at Home by Claire Bingham - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 2020-08-27 - 224 pages.

Green is the new black. With environmental concerns at an all-time high, many of us are looking to promote sustainability in everyday ways, especially at home. It is more important than ever that our kitchen and dining spaces allow us to live in harmony with nature. This glimpse into the home kitchens and dining areas of twenty of the world’s top chefs, food bloggers and restaurateurs reveals inspiring ways that the food-obsessed are embracing the 'wild' at home in their everyday cooking and dining.

From a chef who experiments with herbs in a city apartment to a blogger who forages with her family in a local forest, each personality’s featured kitchen story offers a behind-the-scenes view of their unique cooking philosophy along with their insider tips for creating a unique kitchen space. Each chef – from Julia Sherman and David Tanis to Judy Williams (of Via Carota) and Rita Sodi – provides a simple recipe that uses their favourite natural ingredients. Offering advice on essential utensils, entertaining and bringing the outside in, the book also features a directory of websites and restaurants for those interested in finding out more.

The desire to know where our food comes from and to minimize our carbon footprints is ever-growing. Wild Kitchen offers fresh insights into kitchen design and styling from those who understand the sustainable lifestyle best, and will inform, delight and inspire all food lovers looking to get back to nature.

Colour is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors by Charlotte Coote - Published: Thames & Hudson Australia - 2022-04-28 - 224 pages.

Interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes colour, fabric, textiles and originality in this bold guide to creating classic interiors.

In this gorgeously inspirational and effortlessly practical book, Charlotte Coote guides readers through the process of designing a space, from creating the original design brief through to the finished room. Using her five principles of design - timelessness, authenticity, lifestyle, scale and quality - Charlotte shows how to balance comfort and style, light and shadow, colour and neutrals, old and new. Charlotte's bold and decisive style is like a breath of fresh air, with easy-to-follow tips and ideas for wall colours, kitchen finishes, furniture and fabrics to achieve rich and layered interiors.

An essential stylebook, Colour Is Home will help you create a home that will stand the test of time.

The Poster: A Visual History by Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 2020-08-27 - 304 pages.

Even in the digital age, the printed poster retains an important, much-loved role in connecting with audiences in a way that both entertains and informs. The V&A was one of the first museums to start collecting posters and to recognize the importance of doing so. Far from ephemeral, posters are both a representation of the time in which they were produced and distributed and, in many instances, have shaped the societies in which they were seen. The story of the poster is both one of changing styles and new innovations in design, illustration and printing, and a visually compelling social history.

The Poster brings together over 300 examples that tell a comprehensive visual history of poster design and the various ways the poster has been used to tell, to sell, to charm and to spur on change. Organized into seven thematic chapters that tell the story of the poster as a medium, each poster is accompanied by a concise commentary that explains the work in terms of its design, printing, content, message and the commercial, social or political impact it may have had.

Featuring works by the masters of poster design that have become popular and highly collectible classics, charting the ebb and flow of styles such as Art Nouveau, Modernism, Art Deco, Psychedelia and Punk and featuring the nostalgic glow of muchloved brands as well as posters that shook and changed the world, The Poster will be an essential visual resource for graphic designers and illustrators – a reference for anyone with an interest in collecting posters and an engaging design and social history for all who appreciate this most popular of art forms.

Modern English: Todhunter Earle Interiors by Helen Chislett and Emily Todhunter - Published: Vendome Press - 2021-10-07 - 272 pages.

If you’re a book lover, you’ll adore these book bundles. Renowned for their high-quality illustrated books, Thames & Hudson has been making the world of art and creativity accessible to the reading public for over 70 years. Now they’re here at The Roost. And because we know how a wonderful collection of books really makes it feel like home, we’ve made some exclusive bundles, just for Roost customers.

We’ve created plenty of bundles for you to choose from. Just pick your passion: interiors, photography, art, nature, cooking, travel, pop culture, fashion, or creatives. Or select a coordinating bundle to match your colour scheme.

Browse these irresistible book bundles, and pick the one that calls to you.