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The Cocky Heir
She is about to get married. But not to him. Quinn MacFayden, is set to return to Scotland to protect the precious family legacy. His 90-year-old grandfather is about to marry a perfect stranger sixty-six years his junior…. Over his dead body, Quinn swears it! But Dawn is not a future bride like the others. She is nowhere near the gold digger he imagined and, above all, she knows just how to stand up to him. And so a game of cat and mouse begins between them. A war with no holds barred and where surrender has never been so tempting…
Douglas Snelling
Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916–85) was one of Britain’s significant emigré architects and designers. Born in Kent and educated in New Zealand, he became one of Australia’s leading mid-century architects, of luxury residences and commercial buildings, and a trend-setting designer of furniture, interiors and landscapes. This is the first comprehensive study of Snelling’s pan-Pacific life, works and trans-disciplinary significance. It provides a critical examination of this controversial modernist, revealing him to be a colourful and talented protagonist who led antipodean interpretations of American, especially Wrightian and southern Californian, architecture, design and lifestyle innovations.
The Other Moderns
While Harry Seidler is one of Australia’s most famous architects, little is known of his European-born contemporaries. The Other Moderns uncovers the work of Sydney’s forgotten émigré architects, interior designers, and furniture makers working from the 1930s to 1960s, and reveals their groundbreaking impact on modernist design. Highlighting the direct connections between Sydney and the European design centres of Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest, the book provides a new understanding of modernism. Profiling the work of architects like Henry Epstein and Hugo Stossel, along with Gerstl Furniture, The Other Moderns tells the story of the network of architects, designers, property developers, retailers, and photographers working together to bring a distinctly European style to mid-century Australia. Richly illustrated with rare photography, including stunning images from Austrian-born photographer Margaret Michaelis, and furniture from the collection of Hotel Hotel Canberra, the book explores the work of this unacknowledged group of style makers for the first time.
Past Present
This book is a collection of essays on feminist art, art history, criticism and museum practices in Australia today. Artists, art historians, curators, collectors and critics revisit and expertly evaluate aspects of the 1995 National Womens' Art Exhibition. This is no monolithic view of feminism; it will interest all artists.
Margo Lewers No Limits
Life and work of 20th century modernist artist Margo Lewers
Scottish Bastard
Ils se détestent. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Entre Quinn et Dawn, la guerre est déclarée : ils se détestent ! Quinn, homme d’affaires brillant et sûr de lui, est habitué à tout contrôler. Dawn, jeune femme pleine de vie, n’a pas l’habitude de rendre des comptes à qui que ce soit. Et quand elle décide d’épouser son vieil ami Fergus MacFayden, de soixante-six ans son aîné, elle a ses raisons. Mais Quinn, qui est le petit-fils de Fergus, ne l’entend pas de cette oreille et fera tout pour protéger la famille de cette jeune arriviste : il quitte précipitamment New York pour rentrer dans son Écosse natale et mettre de l’ordre dans cette situation aussi révoltant...
Mod to Memphis
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, August 2002 - March 2003.
Sydney Style
SYDNEY STYLE provides readers with a chance to step inside the world of Marion Hall Best, arguably the most significant and influential interior designer in NSW. Best's work was characterised by an adventurous and sophisticated use of colour in glazed walls and ceilings. Marimekko cottons and Thai silks, Japanese temple blinds and lights and avant-garde Italian, American, Scandinavian and Australian furniture.
Karl Langer
Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable housing, fiercely proud and regional architectural practices, and a suspicion of the foreign, Langer moulded the European language of international modernism to the unique climatic and social conditions of tropical Australia. This book will tell Langer's story through a series of edited essays focused on key themes and projects. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern A...
