Interior Design Atlas
Kay Hyman
Könemann, 2000
Paperback, 186 x 135 mm, 999 pages
£16.99

This expansive book, containing 1000 pages, covers all the major topics related to contemporary interior design, and examines, house by house, the problems most often encountered when redecorating our homes. Halls, living and dining rooms, kitchens, staircases, bedrooms, children's bedrooms, bathrooms, terraces, and lighting are all covered as separate headings in this comprehensive work.

With over 2500 full colour photographs, this book is also a rich source of inspiration and ideas featuring fundamental concepts of proportions, colours, designs, materials, furnishings, textures, coverings and fabrics. The book is intended as a work of inspiration and at the same time a practical resource for the general reader.

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International Style: Modernist Architecture From 1925 To 1965
Hasan-Uddin Khan 
Taschen 2001
Paperback, 301 x 242 mm, 237 pages 
£7.99

The exciting evolution of modern architecture, exemplified by the International Style, provided an architecture that dominated the four decades from 1925 to 1965. Beginning in Europe and North America, it spread globally, and became the dominant model for the twentieth century building. This book examines manifestations of the International Style, both individual and regional, and enquires into the ideals and reality of architectural utopianism.  

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Junk Style
Melanie Molesworth, Photography by Tom Leighton
Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1998
Hardback, colour d/w, 243 x 235 mm, 144 pages
£6.99

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if your eye can discern beauty where others see junk, then you're well on your way to having a home decorated in a style that is distinctive, inviting, and probably quite affordable as well. The Junk Style look is eclectic but it is selective: each piece is chosen for some notable quality, be it quirky styling, fine workmanship, a charming defect, a texture created by the patina of age, or the wear and tear bestowed by past use. Junk Style demonstrates an individuality that cannot be had from brand-new, mass-produced objects. With over 300 full colour photographs of real people's homes and a useful 'before' and 'after' comparison this book is brimming with good ideas. 

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Klein
Hannah Weitemeier
Taschen 2001
Paperback, 232 x 188 mm, 95 pages 
£3.99

Yves Klein (1928-1962) studied for the merchant navy as well as Oriental languages before taking up art professionally. In 1946 he began with his Monochromes, panels covered uniformly with a layer of pure colour. In 1958 he presented an exhibition at the Gallery Iris Clert entitled Le Vide (The Void), with nothing but bare walls on show. Amongst his later works were the infamous Anthropometries of 1960: exhibitions where the audience was surrounded by a chamber-music orchestra playing Klein's "Symphony Monotone Silence", consisting of one chord held for twenty minutes, followed by twenty minutes of total silence. During the forty minute performance naked models covered themselves with blue paint and rolled around on sheets of paper on the floor or pressed themselves up against vertical canvases, thereby imprinting their "anthropometries" on the canvases. Such performances signalled the emergence of the New Realism. And then there were the sponge murals....   

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Willem de Kooning
Sally Yard 
Ediciones Poligrafa 1997
Hardback, colour d/w, 304 x 218 mm, 128 pages 
£15.99

A leading figure in the emergence of abstract expressionist painting in New York, Willem de Kooning (1904- ) arrived in the United States in 1926 as a 22-year-old stowaway from Holland. He worked as a Muralist in the Federal Arts Project during the Depression years and had his first one-person exhibition in 1948 mainly consisting of abstract works. Five years later, an exhibition of women painted in aggressive, lashing gestures stunned contemporaries not only for the vehemence of the artist's attack but also for the evident reversal of direction. Yet across six decades, the alternation and intertwining of abstraction and figuration remained fundamental to de Kooning's work. With 103 illustrations, 92 in full colour, and an engaging and comprehensive commentary by Sally Yard on his life and works, this is an excellent introduction to de Kooning's work.

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Willem de Kooning: Reflections In The Studio
Edvard Lieber 
Harry N. Abrams 2000
Hardback, colour d/w, 237 x 240 mm, 137 pages 
£18.00

This unique book, written and photographed by Lieber, who worked for Willem and Elaine de Kooning during the 1980's, provides a rare insight into their art and their lives. 

An invaluable reference, especially for those interested in de Kooning's later work. 98 plates, including 71 in full colour.  

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Fernand Léger
Carolyn Lanchner
Museum Of Modern Art, Thames & Hudson 1998
Hardback, colour d/w, 265 x 276 mm, 304 pages 
£21.00

Fernand Léger (1881-1955) is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series "Contrastes de formes" of 1913-14 - the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism - through his paintings of construction workers from the late 1940s and early 1950s, his enduring subject was the pulse and dynamism of everyday life. Léger saw the 20th century environment as "a state of contrasts", a condition that he translated into art through forceful juxtapositions of shape, colour and line. His attempt to reconcile the formal concerns of artmaking with issues of social responsibility continues to be relevant to the art world of today.  This book was published to accompany a retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1998, and consists of a number of essays exploring Léger's life and works, 217 illustrations (67 in colour), an illustrated chronology, and selected bibliography. 

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Elke Linda Buchholz
Könemann, 2000
Paperback, 200 x 167 mm, 96 pages 
£3.00

This engaging and well illustrated book details the life and works of Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) one of the great masters of the Renaissance. Da Vinci excelled in many different areas as painter, sculptor, architect, scientist and engineer. Many of his innovations in the art of painting influenced Italian artists for centuries after his death. 

A very informative and concise overview of Da Vinci's achievements. 

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