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  • av Stephen Bayley
    259,-

    The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004.

  • av Stephen Bayley
    140,-

    With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century.'Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes' The Spectator______________________________Someone once said you can find beauty anywhere. But all Eustace Dunne can see is ugliness. The buildings are grey, the people are tired and unimaginative, the food is inedible and life is drab, drab, drab. Growing up in an England ravaged by the Second World War, Eustace resolves to make things beautiful again. A mercurial stint in art school gives him a springboard into a world that is changing so fast you have to hold on tight to keep up. And in that world, ambition, timing and a modicum of talent can transform you into anything you want to be. Before long he's an artist, a designer, a restaurateur, an entrepreneur, a genius. But becoming a bastion of perfect taste can be a grubby business. Eustace's charm may have secured his influence on the homes and hearts of a nation, but there are still people out there who know where the bodies are buried...

  • av Stephen Bayley
    245,-

    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 nation forever....

  • - Notes on Automobile Design
    av Stephen Bayley
    266,-

    A witty and insightful account of the life and times of the automobile, by one of the world's great design writers.

  • - What Money Can't Buy: A Handbook for Practical Hedonism
    av Stephen Bayley
    133 - 272,-

  • - An Utterly Quirky Guide to General Ignorance
    av Stephen Bayley
    165,-

    Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. Why does Judeo-Christianity love mountains? Why was fear of drinking from skulls the original reason for cremation? This work gathers the bizarre and unknown facts that make our world tick.

  • - The Myths of Creativity Exposed, The Truths of Creativity Explained
    av Stephen Bayley
    223,-

    ________'Promises to show readers how to think boldly and spark imaginative thought' (FT) ________Creativity is a powerful force.

  • - How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas
    av Stephen Bayley & Roger Mavity
    156,-

    The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business.Part inspirational manual for business, part guidebook to a successful and happy social life, Life's a Pitch is written as the result of an accumulated half century of (mostly successful) pitching by the authors.

  • - The Secret Meaning of Things
    av Stephen Bayley
    401,-

    Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the topic of "taste" with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food. This is a new edition of his classic book, brought into the new millennium by Bayley's critique of modern design.

  • - The Building of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
    av Stephen Bayley
    553,-

    Presents the most significant civil-engineering project in Britain in more than a century. Profusely illustrated with stunning photography, including archival images and dramatic construction shots, 'Work' covers all aspects of the project, from design and planning to construction and opening by Her Majesty The Queen.

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