Ornament, as practiced by architects, artists, and designers for a hundred years, presents itself as a system of order and grid, and not merely as ...

New York City's oldest neighborhoods are downtown, where scores of timeworn ads have improbably survived for decades. These "ghost signs" hold the ...

The artwork displayed on gift and shopping bags has never been more exciting! This contemporary peek at nearly 600 shopping bags in over 280 vibran...

Herman Miller, the leader in modern twentieth-century furniture manufacture, was a totally design-oriented company. Known best for Eames and Nelson...

There are two groups of Jews in the world: the Jews who are no different than any other people and the Jews who are figments of imagination and def...

Some of the best illustrators of children's books from the late 1880s to the 1920s are documented here. Drawing from an extensive variety of baby b...

Bob Marley died in 1981, but the interest he generated in the raggae, blues, and world beat music continued to grow. Around the world local bands s...

Text in English and German. Gunter Rambow (b.1938) is one of the most prominent designers in the area of visual communication and cultural advertis...

From its founding in 1837 Hathaway Shirts has been the bellweather for quality and style. Ironically for their 120 years or so they did little or n...

If you plan to enter paradise, youll want to dress for it. Here are over 1000 glorious color photgraphs of Hawaiian-inspired textile designs on shi...

Thousands of wonderful motifs will inspire graphic artists, designers, modelers, re-enactors and others seeking to add aristocratic visual flair to...

Pretty flowers, expert styling, and flattering designs characterize some of the features that define high fashion hats of the 1950s to 1980s. This ...

French artist Zabo arrived in Hong Kong in 1967, and condensed his year-long stay into a book of cartoons which has come to be known as an emblem o...

Explore women's shoes as a powerful talisman of fashion, culture, and sexual energy. With 500 original color photographs, and two dozen vintage ill...

Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books abo...

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Wester...

Text in English & German. Apple Inc, the Californian computer company, has been marked by unparalleled success over the past three and a half d...

Louis Icart, in his renewed popularity, has become the current symbol of the Art Deco period, for he captured the Parisian art world during the 192...

What does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultura...

Text in English & French. This showcases 50 of the best artists in the field of magic realism, showing the nature and diversity of the style wi...

This edition showcases the best of the best in Magic Realism -- Fantasy Art. Here is new work from David M Bowers, Gil Bruvel, Steven Kenny and man...

The 4th book in the IMAGINAIRE series.Wolfgang Harms from Germany is the guest of honour.A variety of 49 internationally known artists in the genre...

Imaginaire is made for promoting the fantastic art. Each year with a celebration showing what is happening on the stage of the fantastic art by pu...

This is the 5th book in the Imaginaire Series. David M Bowers from USA is the guest of honour. A variety of internationally known artists in the ge...