Volume 3, Issue 9
September 2009
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WELCOME to this month’s newsletter..! Autumn is a really exciting time for us here at Potterton as it is when all the great new books come out and we think there’s a lot for you to get excited about too..! We have collected together the finest titles of the season and in the next three months we will be bringing them to you in style...
AUTUMN 09/ PART 1 Pre-Order now on 020 7730 4235 UTLAWS! / £27.50. A collecSILHOUETTE, The Art O tion of fifty astonishing stories featurof the Shadow / £45. Elegant and enigmatic, the silhouette is the simplest of art forms—but that simplicity belies a rich and varied past. This is the first major work on the art of the silhouette.
ing hero-villains ranging from Robin Hood to Buffalo Bill, and from Calamity Jane to Bonnie and Clyde. Sure to big a great Christmas gift for the Outlaw in your life!
FRANK AUERBACH /
ART DECO COMPLETE / £ 50.
£100. This is the most comprehensive publication to date, and the only book in print, on the work of Frank Auerbach, a painter who has become one of the preeminent artists of our age, widely admired for his vivid, impulsive depictions of the world around him.
Sumptuously illustrated with over 1,000 illustrations and written by one of the world’s leading experts, Art Deco Complete will be the definitive work on the subject for many years to come.
IN HOUSE / £ 35. A sumptuous collection of provocatively influential interiors from Morocco to Scotland and from Madrid to Jodphur by legendary photographer Derry Moore.
GARDEN WISDOM / £17.95. This anthology of practical advice from more than 50 eminent gardeners is full of wit, wisdom and experience, with beautiful illustrions by Angie Lewin.
STYLE CITY—HOW LONDON BECAME A FASHION CAPITAL / £35. Style City tells, for the first time, the story of how London became a style capital describing how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s, when designer fashion scarcely existed, to the present day.
NORMAN THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE / £ 50. An unprecedented look at quintessential English country house interiors and architecture, from the epitome of English Tudor to the twentiethcentury manor house.
CONTEMPORARY / TIMELESS LIVING
2010-2011 / £ 47.50. The new editions of our two interior bestsellers with fantastic new ideas for the most stylish homes.
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PARKINSON: A VERY BRITISH GLAMOUR / £40. The most lavish and comprehensive book ever published on the work of the legendary and influential fashion photographer Norman Parkinson.
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OHN PIPER & MYFANWY PIPER / THE 18TH CENTURY / £25. This book looks at the extraordinary £40. A much needed reprint lives of the Pipers, with John working of John Whitehead’s classic alongside the likes of Ben Nicholson & work on the subject. It looks at Henry Moore, & Myfanwy influencing the innovators behind the inteBritten and Betjeman. They entertained riors and the decorative arts people in their Chiltern home, from Osthey produced to furnish bert Lancaster to the Queen Mother. them. It studies the tastes & preoccupations of the time, OMEN AVIATORS / AURA ASHLEY / £35. Reveals the while looking at the wider so£40. A glowing tribute to a phenomenon behind this iconic brand, cial context & etiquette of the century of women in aviacreated by Laura & her husband Benard in French interior. tion, featuring more than their 1950s flat, with 200+ illustrations & one hundred aviatrixes drawings, company archives & family refrom Amelia Earhart to cords. Be inspired by the charming 50s Sally Ride, looking at their fabrics and patterns that so influenced the heroic feats, with inspiraEnglish home. tional tales of bravery & ambition. OUIS VUITTON / £50. Compiled by Marc Jacobs, this seductive anthology looks at the house’s most visible collaborations, from Murakami to Sprouse. Critical essays examine Louis Vuitton’s patronage during one of the most fertile periods of contemporary art & design. NDREW MARTIN INTERIOR DESIGN OST BEAUTIFUL WINE CELLARS IN THE WORLD / £50. REVIEW, VOL 13 / £40. This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader This title has become on an intercontirenowned as the reference nental journey book for designers. The OOKS DO FURNISH through ancient, Designer of the Year hidden-away award attracts entries from A ROOM / £24.95. This all over the globe and this beautifully illustrated 'treasure troves' as year's edition features 91 guide offers inspirational well as contempodesigners, offering the rary wine cellars solutions and practical tips reader even more to look on how to make the most owned by wine at and be inspired by. producing doof books in every room maines, wine merchants, hotels, restaurants and forgotten nook of the and private individuals. A great gift book. house.
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This Month’s VINTAGE TITLES. The Best on the Shelf. MARKS OF DISTINCTION / 1991 / £35. This witty photography book from Karen Knorr teases the polished, aristocratic compositions & subjects of magazines such as Country Life & Gentleman, making them appear conventional, when they are in fact the opposite.
FLAIR. Fashion Collected by Tina Chow / 1992 / £110. The Chow collection of couture fashion is one of the finest in the world. Presented here are over 50 of the best pieces by couturiers such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Fortuny, Givenchy, Lanvin, Miyake, Poiret, Yves Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli and Vionnet.
Dates for your diary... Frank Auerbach: Recent Pictures: Malborough Fine Art Gallery, London,23 September – 24 October 2009. The exhibition will show 20 new works, marking the publication of the new monograph (see overleaf). Decorex International 09: Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, 27— 30 September, www.decorex.com. We will be hosting a special window display to celebrate Decorex week. Tim Gosling, author of new title ―Gosling. Classis Design for Contemporary Interiors‖ will be creating a sumptuous display and signed copies of his book will be available. We will also be featuring the wonderfully creative textiles from Yorkshire artist Georgia Wilkinson. Come by and have a look!
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