Collection: Reference

Western-style furniture was a relatively late arrival in Asia, where climates and lifestyles were markedly different. Colonial incursions and histry brought about profound changes, and furniture design in Asia blossomed into a major decorative art.

Michael Clark Rockefeller's ethnographic notes and photographs made among the Asmat people during two expeditions in 1961, documented by a pictorial and descriptive catalogue of the objects he collected.

Considers the urban Italian house as a crucible for the development of Renaissance art and culture. Illuminating the vitality of the domestic sphere and evoking the spaces in which everyday lives were led, it presents an entirely fresh approach.

An impressive range of ideas & objects from paintings and textiles to kitchen utensils, popular prints, jewellery, and everyday dress to reveal how the upper and middle classes made a crucial contribution to the visual arts in 15th & 16th century Italy

The illustrated, chronological story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often tempestuous and controversial fortunes of the governing body, together with the highs and lows of the Games themselves

Contains 56 maps, 329 illustrations, and accompanying text describing ancient American art, history, and archaeology

Drawing from the best data available, this is an unprecedented guide to the state of the planet and our most pressing resource and environmental issues

Informative overview of the life and works of Rodin, who was the foremost sculptor of the 19th century. This book treats all his major works in their biographical, social and historical context

Ancient Olympic Games - Baron de Coubertin - 1896 Athens - 1900 Paris - 1904 St Louis - 1906 Interim Games - 1908 London - 1912 Stockholm - 1920 Antwerp - 1924 Paris - 1928 Amsterdam - 1932 Los Angeles - 1936 Berlin - 1948 London - 1952 Helsinki

Photographs of early settlement, suppression of the Aborigines, convict times, gold rushes, exploration, growth of transport and farming, towns and cities, bosses and unions, war and politics.

Over 50 buildings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today.

The paintings of Jeffrey Makin, artist, academic and long term art critic for Melbourne's Sun-Herald, are featured in this lavishly illustrated monograph. In his introduction, Christopher Heathcote describes Makin's approach to landscape painting and his treatment of some of Australia's most dram...