All Buttons Great and Small: A compelling history of the button, from the Stone Age to today by Lucy Godoroja
$50.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
All Buttons Great and Small is an exploration of the craftsmanship and peculiar history of buttons. From antiques to contemporary design and production, it will inspire a new era of button-makers and enthusiasts, who have an exciting challenge ahead with emerging technologies and pressures on sustainabi ...Show more
Women and Water by Gale Straub
$50.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
This inspiring collection combines breathtaking photography with powerful narratives from women who swim, surf, kayak, study glaciers, advocate for water conservation, carry forward their ancestral fishing traditions, and more. Collected by the team at She Explores, a media company and community that ce ...Show more
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
$95.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the firs ...Show more
Living Between Land & Sea - The Bays of Whakaraupo Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson
$75.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
This superbly illustrated history of the people who settled in the many bays of Whakaraup/Lyttelton Harbour is full of finely observed insights into the challengesof living in small, remote communities. Acknowledging the rich history of Te Hapu o Ngāti Wheke and their guardianship of this place, the bo ...Show more
The Book by Design The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention
$116.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Why does a book look and feel the way it does? What can it tell us about the circumstances of its creation? This is a fascinating exploration of the development of book design through some of the most treasured volumes in the British Library collections. Carefully selected by the Library's curatorial te ...Show more
Doll's Houses by Halina Pasierbska
$47.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
A fantastic opportunity to get up close with one of the world's best collections of dollhousesThis beautifully illustrated revised edition celebrates some of the best-loved dollhouses from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Dolls' Houses presents specially commissioned photography ...Show more
Safe & Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust
$65.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Don't panic-I'm here to help! Dear Readers- As a transwoman, I've discovered (the hard way) that we live in a world with much to fear. But imagine fearing something as simple as asking for help. Imagine relying on others-landlords-to provide a basic human right, like housing, but knowing those same peop ...Show more
In Search of Tea: Discovery and Knowledge by François-Xavier Delmas
$45.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
In this coffee table book, François-Xavier Delmas, founder Palais de Thés and one of the world's greatest experts in the tea universe, travels to various tea territories across the globe. From India to China, from Nepal to Japan, through Taiwan and Sri Lanka, Malawi and Kenya, he travels in search of th ...Show more
Te Taiao Maori and The Natural World by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
$50.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
In traditional Maori knowledge, the weather, birds, fish and trees, sun and moon are related to each other, and to the people of the land, the tangata whenua. It is truly an interconnected world - a vast family of which humans are children of the earth and sky, and cousins to all living things. In this ...Show more
Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals by Ethan Doyle White
$55.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Focusing on a curated selection of pagan art and artifacts, this book explains the iconography and mystic power of pagan ritual objects from around the world. Ethan Doyle White identifies three critical elementsof paganism from classical antiquity to today: polytheism, affiliation with nature, and witc ...Show more
Crown Lynn - A New Zealand Icon by Valerie Monk
$55.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Crown Lynn china now has iconic status. From its early days of churning out railway china, Crown Lynn became a hugely successful business and the largest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere. The New Lynn factory closed in 1989, but their domestic ware is now one of New Zealand s hottest collectibles with ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Pots: The Story of Humanity Told Through Beautiful Ceramics by Ashmolean Museum
$45.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Pottery tells us about religion, daily life, humor, trade, sex, folklore and creativity. Bearing the imprint of their maker more than any other crafted object, ceramics give us a unique physical link to the past, often the only evidence of long-forgotten civilizations that have otherwise crumbled to d ...Show more