Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft

Fashion's leading shoemaker, Manolo Blahnik is one of the handful of designers whose name is synonymous with their product. His success has lasted from setting up as a shoe designer in a Chelsea boutique in the 1970s to the present day, with American Vogue's Anna Wintour declaring 'The truth is, ...

Where would Vogue be without the gown? So much more than an item of clothing, it embodies so many of the qualities of the magazine. Vogue, launched originally in 1892 to cover the lifestyle and fashions of New York high society, is now a chronicler of contemporary fashion throughout the world. In...

Illustrated with fabulous images from Vogue's archive, Vogue: The Gown is the ultimate book for fashion lovers.In Vogue: The Gown, Jo Ellison has gathered more than 300 images and grouped them into five thematic chapters: Classical, Fantasy, Drama, Decorative and Modern. The book provides an evoc...

Shoes fascinate women of all ages and have the power to crystallize a moment in fashion. In Vogue: The Shoe, Harriet Quick has curated more than 300 fabulous images from a century of British Vogue, featuring remarkable styles that range from the humble clog to exquisite hand-embroidered haute cou...

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most enduringly popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practising architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics, and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles...

Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbot's personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australia life, as presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and place during a period of immense social change in Australia....