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Taking pride of place on our ever evolving shelf of craft tomes is new book Makery by Kate Smith." - Laura Ashley Blog "Psst! Stop daydreaming about that future craft business, and get ready to take some notes." - Mollie Makes This beautiful craft book is a contemporary collection of more than 30 must-make projects that ooze style and personality. Kate's smart ideas are complemented with friendly instructions and handy tips to guide you, so that you achieve great results every time. It is divided into 3 sections, so that you can choose whether to make something to wear, something for your home, or a special gift. Fashion is where she reveals her stunning fashion accessories, from a funky sunglasses case, cosy crochet slippers and a stylish shoulder bag. Gifts, including a kooky fabric cuckoo clock, card wallet & passport case, and a make-up roll for brushes. Finally are the projects for the Home, where she reveals some clever ways to create pretty tea light tins, a cute fifties frilly apron and a chunky rug, among many other exciting projects. Kate believes that, as with cooking, the ingredients you use in crafting are key to the end result. Choose your ingredients well, follow her clear instructions, and the end result will be stunning. Just some of the gorgeous things you'll learn to make include...Fashion Clasp Purse Crochet slippers Wrist Warmers Vintage Tape measure brooch Sunglasses Case Shoulder Bag Gifts Card Wallet & Passport

Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without jeopardizing their productivity. Inspirational colour photographs of potagers and kitchen plots capture the essence of the creative approach to vegetable growing. Techniques are described in clear stages and illustrated with full-colour step-by-step artworks, while an A-Z directory includes more than 150 edible plants with key facts on their cultivation, supplemented with ideas on how to grow them to maximum ornamental effect. Beautifully illustrated, intricate plans of five types of potager - formal, informal, small, urban and winter - add to the wealth of inspirational information.

This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include Katherine Hamnett, Manolo Blahnik, Annie Lennox, Princess Diana (pre-divorce), Bodymap, John Galliano, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Prada, Donna Karan, Madonna, Joseph, Bruce Oldfield, Jasper Conran, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana and Azzedine Alaia. With Paula Reed's lively and informative text and a wealth of fabulous photography, it is vital reading for design students, collectors of vintage and everyone who truly loves fashion.

The digital revolution has made typesetters of us all as we define our identities through the typefaces we choose to communicate with the world. In this witty and insightful book John L Waters explores 50 of the most influential typefaces and shows them in use on posters, perfume packaging, buildings and more. From the power of Gotham - the typeface used in Obama's first presidential campaign - to Wim Crouwel's digital-taming New Alphabet, this is a book of visual treats and wonderful stories.

Knitting is cool again! Knitting groups are springing up everywhere and those of us who perhaps learnt to knit as children and then forgot about it are now rediscovering the joys of sitting down with friends, some beautiful yarn and a pair of nice chunky needles. For those new to knitting, Ros provides all the information you need to get started, with an overview of yarns, terminology and step-by-step instructions on how to knit. All the projects in the book are made with just two stitches (either knit or purl) and most use simple squares, oblongs or tubes for super-easy knitting. Gorgeous photography by top lifestyle photographer Yuki Sugiura captures the sheer pleasure of knitting what you wear.

The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology. From high-performance cycles to practical run-arounds, conceptual bikes to commercial models, here are the 50 most important, pivotal bicycles from around the world.

In Things I Love, interiors stylist extraordinaire Megan Morton inspires by example, sharing her infectious enthusiasm for homes, people and design. But this is also a book of practical tips - from how to fold pesky fitted sheets to cleaning a vintage painting picked up at a flea market. This beautiful book is in four parts: Homes I Love; Things I Love (a section of perforated postcards); People I Love (interviews with designers and taste-makers); and Things I Love to Do (including advice on clutter). Quirky, witty and irreverent, Things I Love will put you in touch with the things you love and teach you how to make sure they fill your home and your life.

'If you're a fan of 20th century design and want to know more about what to collect and what to reject, this is the book for you.' - Sunday Mail Modern design is beautiful, functional, idiosyncratic, and still relatively affordable. Designs that were once thought of as too avant-garde for functional use, are now appreciated for the bold thinking and originality that went into making them. However, many of these objects are just being discovered by collectors, and their craftsmanship and importance is only now being measured. Miller's 20th Century Design is the perfect handbook for the new and established collector. It explains who the iconic designers were and shows hundreds of desirable pieces: furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwares and more, with wonderful photography, hints and tips and price codes. This book, now available in the perfect gift size, tells you everything you need to know about the most important pieces of design. With in-depth analysis and a comprehensive selection of images, you can be confident in choosing the very best pieces from a period of intense innovation. Is Le Corbusier the new Chippendale? Is Charles Eames the new Duncan Phyffe? Get the inside track on which designs are the true Classics and much much more!

This Masterclass edition provides an attractive and compact presentation of this classic work. Fully illustrated throughout, this handsome volume wll grace any collector's shelves.

Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. New in this edition are en tries to describe such film hits as "Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, Farenheit 9/11, "and "Million Dollar Baby. "But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as "The Great Train Robbery, " and progressing chron ologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, "films noir, "sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers arou nd the world. Each entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alphabetical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for. Movie fans will find descriptions of great musicals like "Singing in the Rain, "westerns like "High Noon, "science-fiction classics like "Star Wars, "dramas like "Chinatown "and "Sch indler's List, "and international classics from master directors who include Fellini, Antonioni, Resnais, Truffaut, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, and many others. Here is a volume that belongs in the personal library of film buffs, movie reviewers, collector s of DVDs-and every reader who enjoys reminiscing over great movies of the past and present. Hundreds of movie still shots in color and black and white. ..". a great motivating guide to cinema. After reading one of its engaging, often profound entrie s on a missed film, you want to ... rent it. Best of all, it includes international, silent, animated, and recent films."

Updated for 2011, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is the definitive guide to accompany your interest in music - and help it expand that much further.

An analysis of each plant combination explains how it works and why it is effective, and what you need to do to keep it the plants flourishing. Suggestions for many alternative plant pairings allow you to create thousands of the most imaginative and visually effective planting combinations available. Plants are grouped into shrubs and small trees, climbers, roses, perennials, bulbs and annuals. This book is THE reference book for those who wish to combine plants seasonally by colour, shape, texture and form in every corner of their garden.

Takes you on a journey to some of the most spectacular natural wonders in the world. Spanning every continent and ocean on the planet, this title presents a compendium of experiences that you can revisit time and time again. It helps to learn about the explosive rumblings of Caribbean volcanoes and the secluded Spanish wetlands.

Accessible, vibrantly illustrated and clearly structured, First Dictionary is designed to inspire children to extend their use and understanding of the English language. Specially commissioned artwork bring the words to life, alongside informative photographs.

Accessible, vibrantly illustrated and clearly structured, First Dictionary is designed to inspire children to extend their use and understanding of the English language. Specially commissioned artwork bring the words to life, alongside informative photographs.