ART & BOOKS

Susie Hodge

Why did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt obsess over painting his own image? What's the secret behind the Terracotta Army, or Andy Warhol's soup cans? Art: Explained offers straightforward and satisfying answers to 100 of these fascinating questions. If you've ever looked at an art masterpiece in awe, but wondered just what it means, here is your guide.


Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Published: August 9, 2022 by Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9780857828972 (ISBN10: 0857828975)
Language: English

Author Alexandra Carl, Contributions by Angelo Flaccavento and Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos
An indispensable survey of the most important archival collections assembled by fashion’s key players.

In order for fashion to march forward, it must possess the ability to look back. For the fashion obsessed, one’s archive is surely a testament to the act of preservation and, of course, a sophisticated symbol of taste. Archives take time to build, wardrobes or storage units packed to the brim with rare, archival shoes, dresses, and handbags, some never worn, are only perfected after countless hours spent on Ebay and in the depths of obscured vintage sales. The results end up being remarkable representations of fashion history.

This book gathers the preeminent collections of archival obsessives, capturing the closets of an impressive list of fashion and design talent. Readers will get an in-depth look at Michèle Lamy’s extensive Comme des Garçon archive, Sarah Andelman’s covetable (and colorful) sneaker and t-shirt collection, ENDYMA's growing Helmut Lang archive, Zaha Hadid’s fabulous footwear assemblage, and more. This tome, over 300 pages long, painstakingly showcases the subject’s archive while showing off top-tier labels and hard-to-obtain seasons: Issey Miyake, Maison Martin Margiela, Thierry Mugler, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen, among others, and serves as an indispensable reference for those interested in fashion history and building their own archive.

Essays throughout by leading thinkers and writers provide insightful commentary alongside each collection featured in this new, enlightening fashion bible.
About The Author
Alexandra Carl is an acclaimed fashion stylist and consultant and recipient of the British Fashion Council’s New Wave Creative Award.

Angelo Flaccavento is an Italian fashion journalist, writer, and curator.

Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos is a noted university professor, curator, and art advisor. A pioneer in the field of psychology, he has advised and managed international contemporary art collections, and led sales with Christie's and Sotheby’s.

Publish Date: April 02, 2024
Format: Hardcover
Category: Design - Fashion & Accessories
Publisher: Rizzoli
Trim Size: 10 x 13-1/2
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3137-1

Joan Barzilay Freund & Asad Syrkett (introduction)

Discover 25 of the most recognizable design styles through 150 residential interiors from the world’s leading designers

From Coastal to Contemporary, Maximal to Mediterranean, Tailored to Textured, this inspirational lookbook guides beginners and enthusiasts alike through the most timeless interior design styles of the last century.

Learn to identify and understand each style like an expert through introductory texts describing key tenets and featured real-world examples by today’s best contemporary designers, such as Studio Shamshiri, Laura Gonzalez, and Vincenzo De Cotiis. Whether in a Manhattan skyscraper, along the coasts of Italy, or in the tropics of Bali, the rooms in this curated global collection offer a masterclass in how to navigate interior decor today.

An insightful introduction by design editor Asad Syrkett explores the meaning and recent history of interior style, and a visual directory in the back of the book allows readers to see and make connections between different styles.

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Published: March 6, 2025 by Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838667818 (ISBN10: 1838667814)
Language: English

This is not just another Italian cookbook filled with pizza and pasta recipes.

Italian Street Food takes you behind the piazzas, down the back streets and into the tiny bars and cafes to bring you traditional, local recipes that are rarely seen outside of Italy. Delve inside to discover the secret dishes from Italy’s hidden laneways and learn about the little-known recipes of this world cuisine.

Learn how to make authentic polpettine, arancini, piadine, cannoli, and crostoli, and perfect your gelato-making skills with authentic Italian flavours such as lemon ricotta, peach and basil, and panettone flavour. With beautiful stories and photography throughout, Italian Street Food brings an old and much-loved cuisine into a whole new light.
About The Author

Paola Bacchia was born to Italian migrant parents and into their food culture. Her award-winning blog, Italy On My Mind, explores the connection between family memories and food through stories, photos, and recipes. She returns to Italy every year to expand her knowledge of Italian food and traditions.

Publish Date: September 07, 2021
Format: Hardcover
Category: Cooking - Regional & Cultural - Italian
Publisher: Smith Street Books
Trim Size: 7-3/4 x 9-2/3
Pages: 256

Paperback – March 25, 2021 by Marion Deuchars (Author)

Award-winning British illustrator Marion Deuchars has returned with a new addition to her popular Let''s Make Some Great Art activity book series. Focusing on all things colourful, Let''s Make Some Great Art: Colours includes all kinds of art activities to engage budding artists.

Learn the basics about colours and put your new skills to test in all sorts of colourful activities, including fingerprint art, drawing, painting, collaging and, of course, colouring.

4 - 6 years

This scintillating volume takes readers on an exclusive journey through Paris, guided by Mathilde Favier—the charismatic public relations director at Dior Couture.

Hailing from one of Paris’ most creative families, Mathilde Favier is renowned as a warm, welcoming hostess nurturing a network of friends who happen to be some of the city’s most esteemed figures in fashion, beauty, art, interior design, and gastronomy.

Accompanied by a lively text and interviews by Frédérique Dedet, Favier—who personifies the soul and spirit of Paris—guides readers around the private spaces, shops, studios, residences, and kitchens of these extraordinary personalities. Their personal stories, expert perspectives, and shared secrets, together with Favier’s intimate understanding of the city and its best addresses, present a rarely seen view of Paris’ vibrant core.

A sensory feast and an immersive journey, this book has been conceived as a scrapbook of previously unpublished photographs and documents, as well as stunning new photography by Pascal Chevallier showcasing the beauty of Paris and the people who are at the epicenter of the city’s cultural scene.
About The Author

Mathilde Favier is PR director of Dior Couture, in charge of global celebrity relations, and is passionate about beauty and holistic wellness. Frédérique Dedet has contributed to numerous publications, including France Soir, Point de Vue, and L’Officiel, and is currently editor in chief of Série Limitée lifestyle magazine. Pascal Chevallier is a Paris-based fashion and lifestyle photographer whose work is regularly featured in Vogue, Vanity Fair, AD, and Elle Decor.

Publish Date: May 07, 2024
Format: Hardcover
Category: Travel - Europe - France
Publisher: Flammarion
Trim Size: 8 x 10-3/4
Pages: 280

Featuring Colorful Sea Creatures Perfect Travel Activity for Children Ages 3 and Up


🐙36 PIECE PUZZLE – Dive into the deep blue sea with the Under the Sea 36 Piece Puzzle To Go! Packaged in a 100% cotton drawstring bag, this delightful puzzle features a vibrant underwater scene with playful sea creatures like dolphins, turtles, seahorses, and colorful fish. Perfect for children ages 3 and up, it offers just the right level of challenge. A fun postcard with the full puzzle image is included for reference, making it a great activity for at home or on the go. When assembled, the puzzle fits perfectly on an airplane tray, making it ideal for travel or outings.
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Edited by Sonnet Stanfill and Elisabeth Murray, Contributions by Tristram Hunt and Edward Enninful and Tim Blanks and Claire Allen Johnson and Alexander Fury and Jacqueline Springer and Christine Checinska

This sumptuously illustrated celebration of Naomi Campbell’s extraordinary groundbreaking place in fashion accompanies the first exhibition spotlighting her career at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

In this remarkable book, trailblazing supermodel Naomi Campbell herself selects her favorite photographs—by iconic photographers such as Steven Meisel, Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, Arthur Elgort, Karim Sadli, and Mikael Jansson—to showcase her life in fashion from the earliest appearances until today.

A series of iconic looks are presented in detail accompanied by extended captions replete with Naomi’s personal anecdotes and recollections. She also personally champions her favorite designers, from legends such as Lagerfeld, McQueen, and Versace to up-and-coming talents—especially from Africa—such as Marianne Fassler and Kenneth Ize.

Featuring a wide-ranging interview with Naomi, this glamorous, engaging, yet accessible book celebrates Naomi as one of the world’s leading role models and inspiration to the creatives of today and the future.
About The Author

Sonnet Stanfill is a senior curator, V&A.
Elisabeth Murray is Exhibition Project Curator, Textiles and Fashion, V&A.
Tristram Hunt is the director of the V&A.
Edward Enninful is former editor-in-chief of British Vogue.
Tim Blanks is editor-at-large for The Business of Fashion.
Alexander Fury is a fashion critic.
Claire Allen-Johnstone, Jacqueline Springer, and Christine Checinska are curators at the V&A.

Publish Date: June 25, 2024
Format: Hardcover
Category: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Fashion
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Trim Size: 9 x 11
Pages: 256

Touch & Feel, January 16, 2018 by Mudpuppy (Author), Lydia Ortiz (Illustrator), Frank Lloyd Wright (Artist)

The follow-up to the Mudpuppy board book bestseller My First Shapes With Frank Lloyd Wright, Mudpuppy's Opposites With Frank Lloyd Wright Board Book entertains and introduces children the concept of opposites. Using Wright's famous works, colorful spreads illustrate hard and soft round and pointy, city and nature, and more.
- Size: 6.25 x 6.25 x 0.75"

Baby - 5 years

By Angus Hyland & Caroline Roberts

Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence, and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of the wild about them, they share our homes and endlessly fascinate us. The Book of the Cat is a cool and quirky collection of feline art and illustration by artists from around the world.

Interspersed through the illustrations are short texts about the artists and their subjects. Beautifully designed and packaged, the book will appeal to cat lovers of all ages.

'The Flower Yard is simply gorgeous. Inspirational, sumptuous and packed with refreshingly down-to-earth advice. I love this book.' Nigel SlaterArthur Parkinson's town garden is like a path of pots, a tiny, exposed stage on bricks. Despite its small size, a flower-filled jungle in Venetian tones is grown here each year, in defiance of urbanisation. The plants act like drapes, closing gently as their growth engulfs the front door, from either side of the path, to the buzz of precious bees.This is gardening done entirely in pots, yet on a grand scale that will inspire anyone who wants their doorstep or patio to be a glamorous and lively canvas that nurtures them visually and mentally. From jewel scatterings of crocus, flocks of parrot tulips and scented sweet peas to galaxies of single dahlias, towering giraffes of amaryllises grown inside for winter and endless vases of cut blooms through the seasons.With his bantam hens at his feet, Arthur shares his life, knowledge, flair and influences for planting creatively, all of which combine to create a space that's rich in ever-changing colour and life.


ISBN 9780857839176
Publisher: Kyle Books
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Item Condition: New
Language: English
Pages: 208
Keywords: Gardening | Container; Gardening | Flowers | General

The Great Atlas of Italian Wines Author Alessandro Avataneo and Vittorio Manganelli

The decisive tool for understanding and knowing how to choose and talk about Italian wines with competence and taste.

The Great Atlas of Italian Wines is a journey through Italy as a country of wine. It tells of and illustrates the main denominations, region by region, with a description of the most widespread international grape varieties and the most important native Italian grape varieties. Maps combined with infographics describe the organoleptic characteristics of the wines of each area in a clear and immediate way.

Unique in terms of its narrative and scientific content and suitable for experts and curious people alike, the Great Atlas is an indispensable tool for wine lovers, a mine of well-organized information to keep on hand at all times. It is useful for travelling, studying, choosing a wine at a restaurant or wine bar, or creating your own wine cellar. The 1500 best producers are geolocated in the detailed maps, with a list of the 3000 wines most representative of Italian excellence, regardless of the vintage, resulting from years of cross-checks on the data from the main national and international guides and magazines from the sector.

The volume is completed with the stories of 300 wines that mark the past, present, and future of Italian wine, with wonderful reproductions of their labels.
About The Author

Alessandro Avataneo is a director, teacher, and publisher. He has worked in more than thirty countries across Europe and in the United States and Japan. Vittorio Manganelli is a long-time collaborator of Vini d’Italia and has edited the volumes Atlante delle vigne di Langa and The Art of Italian Wine for Slow Food Editore.

Publish Date: March 26, 2024
Format: Trade Paperback
Category: Antiques & Collectibles - Wine
Publisher: Rizzoli
Trim Size: 8-6/7 x 11-1/5
Pages: 384

Children's Books Ages 1-3, Interactive Books for Toddlers, Board book – Illustrated
August 4, 2015 by Xavier Deneux (Author)

Featuring spreads each with raised shaped objects that fit into scooped cutouts on their opposite page, these two new TouchThinkLearn books offer the youngest learners an irresistible opportunity to explore their universe in a hands-on, multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name: these modes of perception combine in a dynamic way to stimulate understanding of essential concepts. Discover—and experience—a pig by tracing its raised outline on one side and the concave form of the mud puddle it wallows in on the other. Clusters of related words on each spread offer parents and children a springboard for further conversations to encourage the language skills so crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

Baby - 2 years

Board book – Touch & Feel, March 7, 2017 by Xavier Deneux (Author)

A bird arrives, alights on a tree, finds a mate, and builds a nest. Soon its eggs will hatch and one brave hatchling will embark on its first flight. A deceptively simple and joyful celebration of the natural cycle of life, this book adds the bonus of removable—and movable—characters and scenery to the bestselling TouchThinkLearn format, featuring the hallmark production technique of glued-on pieces dovetailing with die-cut openings. In this first narrative title in the series, the movable pieces invite and involve the reader in a meaningful and multisensory participation in the story.

Board book – May 27, 2014 by Xavier Deneux (Author)

Combining scooped-out die-cuts with raised, shaped elements, two new TouchThinkLearn books offer youngest learners an irresistible opportunity to explore their universe in a hands-on, multisensory way. See the image, trace its shape, say its name: these modes of perception combine in a dynamic way to stimulate understanding of essential concepts. Contemplate a circle by touching the raised surface of an owl hooting at night on one side, and the form of a moon rising on the other. Featuring a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

Baby - 2 years

Children's Books Ages 1-3
Interactive Books for Toddlers
Board book – Illustrated, April 3, 2018 by Claire Zucchelli-Romer (Author)

Little fingers twist and turn, zig and zag, moving on, over, and through pages filled with fluorescent die-cut dots and playful, grooved paths. This brilliant application of the groundbreaking TouchThinkLearn format compels the youngest learners to explore and engage with their world in a hands-on, multisensory way. The premise is simple: Hear an instruction, repeat its words, and playfully trace out its action. Multiple modes of perception combine to inspire and instill a deeper understanding of essential concepts and language. TouchThinkLearn: Wiggles offers a priceless way to play, read—and have fun—together!

1 - 4 years