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A Dictionary of Idiocy by Stephen Bayley
18.95 AUD
Category: Humour
Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. In this compelling A-Z of modern ignorance, Stephen Bayley gathers silly, curious and sometimes shocking facts on everything that makes our world tick. Why does Judeo-Christianity love mountains? Why was fear ...Show more
Age of Combustion: Notes on Automobile Design by STEPHEN BAYLEY
44.99 AUD
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles
The automobile is the ultimate analogue machine and mankind's most ingenious, seductive and damaging invention. For over a century, cars have provided reference points for our notions of style, status and desire. In design terms, the Age of Combustion was as rich and varied as architecture's Baroque and ...Show more
Death Drive: There Are No Accidents by Stephen Bayley
70.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and cultural modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends in catastrophe, these ...Show more
Design by Stephen Bayley
99.95 AUD
Category: Design
Design is all around us, it is impossible to avoid. Everything that surrounds us has been designed - from the paperclip and the iPod, to our homes and the way we live. Design: Intelligence Made Visible is epic, opinionated, comprehensive in scope and forms the definitive statement on design for this cen ...Show more
La Dolce Vita by Stephen Bayley
49.95 AUD
Category: Photography
A sweet life full of pleasure and indulgence, 'La Dolce Vita' was a phrase that entered popular usage following the success of the 1960 film La Dolce Vita written and directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimee. As a phrase it has come to sum up the Golde ...Show more
Life's a Pitch by Stephen Bayley
19.95 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy and it is human skill which develops them. In pitching for new business, ideas and emotional intelligence dominate. However the skills of the pitch are not only relevant to the world of busi ...Show more
Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas by Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity
19.99 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy and it is human skill which develops them. In pitching for new business, ideas and emotional intelligence dominate. However the skills of the pitch are not only relevant to the world of busi ...Show more
Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things by Stephen Bayley
69.99 AUD
Category: Design
How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-nineteenth century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of good taste as a way of codifying middleclass mores. A century later, to talk about taste had becom ...Show more
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design by Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Terence Conran, a visionary and a myopic. A design entrepreneur and imaginative restaurateur, he was a democratising idealist who was also a selfish hedonist. His influence is everywhere in modern Britain from where we live to what we eat.Terence: The Man Who Invented Design is the most definitive, inti ...Show more
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design by Stephen Bayley
90.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A complex and contradictory man, design apostle Terence Conran's influence is everywhere in modern Britain. This is the story of an authentic creative genius: an often unhappy man who always made Britain a more cheerful place. This extraordinary book, beautiful to look at and compelling to read, offers ...Show more
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design by Roger Mavity, Stephen Bayley
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . . . [Mavity is] good at conveying the experience of being in a room with Conran' Sunday Times Terence Conran, a visionary and a myopic. A design entrepreneur and imaginative restau ...Show more
The Art of Living by Bayley, Stephen
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Some people make living an art, none more so than Eustace Dunne, entrepreneur, maverick, magpie, media darling, advisor to government, bon viveur. Over the course of his long and storied life and career, he will straddle the worlds of design and cuisine and in so doing change them and the tastes of the ...Show more
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