Art & Home

Helps you learn a practical course in learning how to sew. This title features step-by-step pictures that show you what other courses only tell you and the practice projects keep you on the right track.

An accessible history of the Bauhaus, tracing the ideas behind its conception and its highly influential teaching methods.

James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book

A guide to creating beautiful crochet. It gives you the tools, techniques and stitches you need to create crocheted items. It also helps beginners get started and experienced crocheters to refresh their skills.

An inspirational sourcebook of winning colour combinations using Farrow & Ball's internationally renowned paint range, from the authors of the bestselling Farrow & Ball How to Decorate.

This fun, easy how-to guide reveals the essentials of taking great pictures from an experienced National Geographic photographer.

Shows that any of us can appreciate art. Based on his hugely popular BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures and full of pictures, this title presents the author's personal journey through the art world that answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but seem too embarrassing to ask.

In this easy-to-understand guide to plants and how to design with them, garden designer and lecturer Matt James de-mystifies the world of planting design, making it accessible, enjoyable and hugely rewarding.

A must-have for any art buff, this definitive who's who of Impressionism gathers 10 monographs from the Basic Art series for the price of three. Precise texts and impeccable reproductions guide us through the life and works of Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Rousseau, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh.

Discusses various aspects of organic gardening. This book reveals the secrets of growing abundant flowers and vegetables, plants and produce while respecting the needs of the environment.