Complete Dad’s bookshelf with these captivating titles, carefully selected by our staff for their own Dads, Grandads and all loved-ones as a Father’s Day gift.
From intriguing narrative non-fiction to colourful tomes on art, architecture and photography, we have a book to pique nearly any interest.
Art
Pore over these visual beauties on Australian artists, from the multi-storey murals in Rone to the diverse works in A Painted Landscape, topped off with Chromatopia‘s illustrated history of colour.
Rone
Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.
AU$59.99
A Painted Landscape
Amber Creswell Bell
A Painted Landscape forms an aesthetic study of the landscape as seen, experienced and expressed by 50 Australian artists who choose to paint it.
AU$59.99
Chromatopia
David Coles
Chromatopia is an illustrated history of colour, spanning the ancient world to modern leaps in technology. This is a book for the artist, the history buff, the science lover and the design fanatic.
AU$34.99
Photography
Explore the world through spellbinding photography, beginning with our country’s luminous landscapes through In An Australian Light to the gritty textures of Melbourne and Egypt in Bill Henson’s The Light Fades but the Gods Remain.
In An Australian Light
In an Australian Light reminds us of the myriad ways we experience light in this vast and diverse land.
AU$59.99
The Light Fades But The Gods Remain
Bill Henson
A significant publication of images by one of Australia’s most extraordinary imaginations, The Light Fades But The Gods Remain is the bound collection of Bill Henson’s work.
AU$100
Architecture
Build up your architecture bookshelf with these tomes on beautiful buildings, houses and projects. Peer inside Sean Godsell: Houses, and the first projects of an architectural icon David Adjaye – Works. Read Australia Modern for your comprehensive visual guide to modernism in our country, and Concrete Houses to explore the lyric beauty, versatility and brute force of concrete as a building material.
Sean Godsell: Houses
The first survey of residential projects designed by award-winning Australian architect Sean Godsell.
AU$100
David Adjaye – Works
This monograph presents the early works of Sir David Adjaye, one of the most important architects at work in the world today.
AU$120
Australia Modern
Hannah Lewi & Philip Goad
Australia Modern vividly captures this architectural legacy with a survey of 100 significant modern sites, richly illustrated with archival images and newly commissioned photographs.
AU$80
Concrete Houses
Joe Rollo
Concrete Houses explores the use of concrete in landmark contemporary residential architecture from Australia and abroad.
AU$75
Interiors and Gardens
Find inspiration for the indoors with celebrated interior designer Meryl Hare in her new book Hare + Klein Interior, and enjoy the outside with the beautifully photographed pages of In An Australian Garden.
Hare + Klein Interior
Meryl Hare
With a focus on detail and ambience, this is a personal invitation into the elegant and alluring designs of Hare + Klein.
AU$65
An Australian Garden
Philip Cox
Both private retreat and conservation exercise, An Australian Garden uses nature as muse to reveal the arresting beauty of the natural landscape.
AU$70
Narrative non-fiction
Mix a drink from Max Allen’s Intoxicating, complete with cocktail recipes and a history lesson on Australia’s colourful and complex drinking history. Then, change the way you see our country in Landscapes Of Our Hearts.
Intoxicating
Max Allen
In search of answers, Intoxicating takes us on a personal journey through Australia’s colourful and complex drinking history, glass in hand.
AU$32.99
Landscapes of Our Hearts
Matthew Colloff
An epic exploration of our relationship with this country, Landscapes of Our Hearts offers the possibility that a renewed connection to the landscape and to each other could pave the way towards reconciliation.
AU$34.99
Posted on August 10, 2020