Individual architects Books
BÃhlau Verlag Wien Josef Frank und die anderen
Book SynopsisNeue Ausstellung im MÃbelmuseum Wien
£25.64
De Gruyter Sep Ruf 1908-1982
Book SynopsisSep Ruf zählt unbestritten zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit eleganten leichten, transparenten Bauten wie dem Deutschen Pavillon für die Weltausstellung in Brüssel 1958 (mit Egon Eiermann) oder seinem Kanzlerbungalow in Bonn prägte er nicht nur die deutsche Nachkriegsmoderne, sondern auch das Bild der jungen Bonner Republik in der Weltöffentlichkeit. Manche seiner Meisterwerke wie die Akademie in Nürnberg blieben nahezu unbekannt, andere wie die Neue Maxburg in München – von Nikolaus Pevsner international gewürdigt – fanden in einem eher konservativen Umfeld nicht die ihnen zustehende Anerkennung. Irene Meissners Buch stellt Rufs Gesamtwerk erstmals umfassend vor, bewertet seine Bauten neu und ordnet sie in ihren architekturgeschichtlichen Kontext ein.
£40.95
De Gruyter wohnen 60 70 80: Junge Denkmäler in Deutschland
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band bietet erstmals einen Überblick über die in Deutschland als Denkmäler erfassten Wohngebäude und Siedlungen dieser Zeit. Auf einer breiten Materialbasis werden damit zahlreiche eindrucksvolle Gebäude verschiedener Bereiche, darunter Einfamilienhäuser, Siedlungen, Hochhäuser und Experimentalbauten, neu in die aktuelle Forschungsdiskussion eingebracht. Angesichts der aktuellen Umbauwelle rückt das Buch eine Architekturepoche in den Fokus, deren Denkmalqualität noch nicht selbstverständlich akzeptiert ist. Die gut dokumentierten Gebäude erzählen anschaulich die Geschichte des Bauens und Wohnens in der jungen Bundesrepublik und der DDR. Das Buch ist reich bebildert und wendet sich neben den Fachleuten auch an ein breiteres Publikum.
£32.85
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Christ Gantenbein Projects IIII
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£90.00
König, Walther Zamp Kelp HausRuckerCo. Oase Nr. 7
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£23.80
König, Walther Itsuko Hasegawa. Shonandai Exposing the World
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£29.85
König, Walther Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Marina Tabassum
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£25.50
König, Walther David Kohn Architects. Stages An Architects Book
£45.00
König, Walther Dear Axel... 99 Postcards from Alison and Peter Smithson
£23.80
Taschen GmbH Calatrava
Book SynopsisThrough buildings of culture, science, and faith, and across his many famous bridges, explore the neofuturistic structures of Santiago Calatrava. This compact introduction explores the architect's unique fusion of organic forms, deft engineering, and dramatic, aerodynamic impact.
£14.25
Hatje Cantz Urban-Think Tank: The Architect and the City:
Book SynopsisUrban pilot projects from the informal city! Urban-Think Tank (UTT), an interdisciplinary design practice emerging from the turbulent political environment of Chávez-era Caracas, has pursued projects in Latin America, Europe, and Africa for almost twenty years. Their diverse work positioned the firm at the forefront of a social turn in architecture in the late 1990's, with concrete urban interventions encouraging social cohesion in the megacities of the Global South and Europe’s evolving metropoles. U-TT has also produced numerous media projects that harness film, theatre, exhibitions, and print to create new discursive spaces and question how our cities are shaped, and for whom. Most notable is its work on the squatted skyscraper for which the firm shared the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012. This book looks forward as well as back, imagining new spaces for a hyper-urbanized world and gaining insight from informal settlements, spatial play, and artistic interventions in public space.
£54.40
Hatje Cantz Manifesta 13 Marseille: Le Grand Puzzle
Book SynopsisThe European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta takes place every two years in a different European city. The biennial rethinks the relations between culture and society, investigating and catalyzing positive social change in Europe through contemporary culture in a continuous dialogue with its host city. Manifesta’s founding director, Hedwig Fijen invited the architectural bureau MVRDV led by Winy Maas to develop an urban research of the city of Marseille. This new methodology, is a manner to decipher the complex settings of the cities that invite the biennial. In the study, multilayered structures of religion, ethnicity, geography, culture and politics are explored. Breaking away from its particular focus on art and culture, Manifesta has become an interdisciplinary and participatory program that aims to embrace holistic approaches that are uniting political, cultural and ecological questions within the host city.
£24.00
Hatje Cantz gmp × Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
Book SynopsisThe first volume of the series chronicling the work of architects gmp · Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner was published in 1978, while 2008 saw the publication of the eleventh and most recent volume in the series. More than a decade later, the series is at last picking up where it left off: volume twelve of the monograph documents the projects built between 2007 and 2011, including numerous sports facilities around the world, from the three stadiums erected for the soccer world championships in 2010 in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Durban, South Africa; to the buildings for the World University Games in 2011 in Shenzhen, China; to the Olympic stadium in Kiev. Those, however, are just a few of the sixty-five projects found in this richly illustrated volume: transportation facilities such as the Hamburg Airport and the West Train Station in Tianjin, China, as well as iconic cultural buildings such as the Chinese National Museum, the Hanoi Museum, the China Maritime Museum in Lingang, and the grand theatres in Chongqing and Qingdao are also detailed. Languages: German and English
£46.40
Hatje Cantz GMP Architekten Von Gerkan Marg Und Partner
Book SynopsisArchitecture shapes our lives to a greater extent than almost any other art form. This also applies to the buildings planned by the firm gmp * Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. With tremendous openness to building on any scale and typology under a wide variety of cultural as well as contextual conditions, the long-established firm has realized airports, soccer stadiums, and cultural buildings all over the world. Since its founding in 1965, the firm has undertaken more than 500 projects in twenty-three countries and has been honored with numerous awards for its buildings. Its extensive oeuvre is reflected in numerous publications, including this profusely illustrated 13th volume of the well-known series of monographs. The fifty buildings and projects from 2011 to 2015 discussed here range from the seat of the Vietnamese National Assembly to the Tianjin Cultural Center, Bund SOHO in Shanghai, Baku Crystal Hall, the stadiums built or converted for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the New Hans Sachs House in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and Pier A-West at Frankfurt Airport.
£43.50
Hatje Cantz FGP Atelier: Progression
Book SynopsisFGP Atelier is a global practice led by Mexican architect Francisco Gonzalez Pulido whose mission is to contribute to social and economic advancement through the alignment of the core principles of Design, Science and Technology. The work of The Atelier is guided by Transparency, Openness and Freedom. These values are reflected in the approach to process and collaborations, as well as in the buildings and spaces that result. Logic, Intuition, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Scientific Research and Work Experience drive the design of Spaces that are Active as well as Infrastructure and Urban Networks that respond to Atmosphere, Ecology, Comfort, Economy, Culture and the Technological Context. In working towards the dissolution of archetypical interventions, the Experience of these spaces and buildings is valued over Typology in order to ground the ultimate value in human existence. Progression presents a series of projects and related essays that illustrate the principles that guide the work of FGP Atelier. Through examining these principles, the themes, ideas, and goals that are common to the projects emerge and provide a means of understanding how a diverse set of buildings relate as well as what might come next. The book is divided into three sections: Values, Network, and Ambition. “Values” is comprised of three chapters that discuss sustainability, the practice, and ethics. “Network” is comprised of four chapters that discuss how technical design is influenced by context, the alternative futures that planning can offer, the role that infrastructure plays in creating equitable cities, and challenges facing housing in the future. The final section, “Ambition” suggests ways that the discipline of architecture can evolve. Ultimately, the goal of this book is to be provocative on multiple levels. It should inspire the reader through the completed buildings executed in often challenging conditions. At the same time, it should be a catalyst for discourse and debate regarding what should be built and how a philosophy guides a practice, the design of future buildings, and the conservation of existing buildings.
£54.40
Hatje Cantz MODU: Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism
Book SynopsisPublished by the interdisciplinary design studio MODU, this reader explores the space between the interior and the exterior. How does the design of interior spaces align with an urban world and vice versa? Where can the boundaries between the interior and the urban be drawn? What role does the environment play in this? For their research and design projects, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem look at three major cities on different continents: New York, Rome, and Tokyo. MODU leaves behind the binary idea of inside and outside and rather understands architecture as an extension of the environment. Thus, it imagines a hybrid of urban space, architecture, and interior space. The book explores the different geographic locations and presents their own design projects.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Promontorio: Architecture and the Reflective
Book SynopsisArchitecture as Reflective Practice This publication features projects that the partnership PROMONTORIO developed over the past 30 years. Together they constitute an impressive body of work for various places across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the USA, ranging from city planning, to culture and education, heritage and conservation, commercial and mixed-use, in addition to hospitality and leisure. The idea of a reflective practice, set forth by PROMONTORIO, summons the ability to critically and ethically reflect on its own actions, while engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning. Perceived as a kind of "practicing school" for various generations in Portugal, the practice evolved, in both theory and practice, through the idea that deliberate reflection on experience is essential to cultivate a developmental insight on architecture.
£54.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Atelier Kempe Thill 2 Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisATELIER KEMPE THILL was founded in Rotterdam in 2000 by German architects André Kempe (*1968) and Oliver Thill (*1970), who are both active in research and teaching, currently holding professorships at the Leibniz University Hannover. Setting out with designs for collective housing and small public building commissions, the practice portfolio has developed to include large renovation, infrastructure and urban design projects. Today, the office has more than thirty employees.
£51.00
Hirmer Verlag Winfried Baumann: Cathedrals for Garbage:
Book SynopsisWith his artistic works, the sculptor Winfried Baumann (* 1956) evokes questions of social responsibility and the perception of contemporary social forms. His subjects are highly topical both as regards content with respect to social and urban-planning visions, and also formally as they cross the borders between fine art and applied design. For over thirty years the sculptor Winfried Baumann has focused his attention in the ecological problems which are increasingly advancing to become a question of survival for civilised society. Refuse, slag from the burning of refuse, waste oil and other waste products from our consumer society are materials which he has been using since the mid-1980s for his three-dimensional works and large-scale installations. In his very extensive group of works “Cathedrals” Winfried Baumann examines, for example, waste-disposal plants for large urban spaces, with the protection and marking of nuclear contaminated sites, waste-disposal facilities for large urban spaces and intermediate urban spaces and with the subject of urban mining.
£23.80
Hirmer Verlag Egon Eiermann: Deutsche Olivetti
Book SynopsisThe ensemble with its prominent twin towers that Egon Eiermann (1904–1970) built in Frankfurt am Main for the Italian office machinery company Olivetti, was the Karlsruhe architect’s last major project. His priorities lay in the slender form, derived from the task, the construction and the material to create a characteristic silhouette. Adriano Olivetti, the son of the company’s founder, valued not only the firm’s products, which became cult objects of Italianità in the field of design and which established the ‘Stile Olivetti’. He also made the same demands regarding quality in architecture. The grandson, Roberto Olivetti, commissioned Eiermann, a famous representative of German postwar Modernism, to design the German branch offices. For the architect the project formed the culmination of his career, while for the Karlsruhe student Klaus Kinold it marked the beginning of a career as a photo g-rapher of architecture. He maintained that he had learned more for his future profession from his teacher Egon Eiermann than from anyone else.
£28.00
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Meret Oppenheim: Mon Exposition
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£35.91
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach (1656-1723):
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£68.00
Hirmer Verlag Stephan Maria Lang: Stephan Maria Lang
Book SynopsisStephan Maria Lang is a proponent of the slow architecture movement. He is exceptionally good at engaging with the special atmosphere of a place and matching it with his clients’ personalities. The diverse and individual nature of Lang’s work is presented in the impressive pictorial composition of this book.
£31.96
Christoph Merian Verlag Luigi Snozzi Casa Kalman
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£30.40
Gta Verlag Year Zero to Economic Miracle - Hans Schwippert
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£43.88
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Critical Regionalism Abroad
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£21.84
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Heinz Isler
£51.75
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Peter Thomann
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£37.80
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Lisbeth Sachs
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£34.72
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Rem Koolhas/Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation
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£10.22
JOVIS Verlag Polylemma (Deutsche Sprachausgabe)
Book SynopsisFor a quarter of a century, the architectural collective raumlaborberlin has been pioneering new spaces for action, charting unique paths in cooperative urban development, and creating places to foster encounters. Together with experts across various fields, they explore forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma tells the story of this work: its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Topics discussed across numerous projects include strategies for learning together, experimental building, and radical recycling. Polylemma challenges us to open up our notion of space. How do we want to live together in the future? The book is a plea for the city as a sphere of action.
£36.00
JOVIS Verlag Das Berliner Zimmer: Geschichte, Typologie,
Book SynopsisDas Berliner Zimmer ist seit jeher Zumutung und Angebot zugleich: dunkel, schwer zu beheizen, ohne klar definierte Funktion. Ein Raum, der zur kreativen Aneignung einlädt, der geliebt und gehasst wird – aber bisher kaum erforscht wurde. Jan Herres leistet in diesem Buch Pionierarbeit. Er zeigt auf, wie das Berliner Zimmer ab dem 18. Jahrhundert entstand und warum es bis heute Eingang in den Berliner Wohnungsbau findet. Die architekturgeschichtliche Beschreibung wird durch Fallstudien und Bildstrecken zu heutigen Formen der Nutzung und Möblierung ergänzt. Durch die Erfassung von Grundrissen, Größen und Wohnpraktiken liegt mit Das Berliner Zimmer. Geschichte, Typologie, Nutzungsaneignung die erste Anthologie des Berliner Zimmers vor, die zugleich ein Plädoyer dafür ist, Wohnarchitektur nutzungsoffen und wandelbar für künftige Anforderungen zu planen.
£23.75
JOVIS Verlag Max Dudler: Geschichte weiterbauen / Building on
Book SynopsisZweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) „Das Baudenkmal führt uns vor Augen, dass wir von der Vergangenheit getrennt sind. Zugleich erinnert es uns daran, dass es unsere Aufgabe ist, eine Beziehung mit der Geschichte aufzunehmen. Darum führt mich gerade das Bauen im Bestand auf die Suche nach einer Architektur, die die Geschichte fortsetzt. Diese Suche nach dem Neuen, das ohne das Alte nicht möglich und denkbar wäre, nenne ich Weiterbauen." Max DudlerMax Dudler: Geschichte weiterbauen erscheint anlässlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld. In Fotografien und Plänen schlägt der Band eine Brücke zwischen Max Dudlers Erweiterungen bedeutender Baudenkmäler, wie den Bauten für das Hambacher Schloss, und neueren Projekten, wie dem Eisenbahnmuseum in Bochum. Aus der architektonischen Transformation der Historie entstehen abstrakte, skulpturale Bauten, die in Form und Material unseren Kontakt zur Geschichte wahren.
£28.35
JOVIS Verlag Polylemma (English edition)
Book SynopsisFor a quarter of a century, the architectural collective raumlaborberlin has been pioneering new spaces for action, charting unique paths in cooperative urban development, and creating places to foster encounters. Together with experts across various fields, they explore forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma tells the story of this work: its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Topics discussed across numerous projects include strategies for learning together, experimental building, and radical recycling. Polylemma challenges us to open up our notion of space. How do we want to live together in the future? The book is a plea for the city as a sphere of action.
£36.00
JOVIS Verlag Planung für Morgen: Zukunft Stadt und Raum
Book SynopsisThe future of cities and their spaces lies in the redevelopment of existing housing stock and its associated transformation tasks. The discipline of urban planning needs to reposition itself, and—at the intersection of climate change and the mobility revolution—seek to champion the cause of increased participation and greater resilience. How can challenges be overcome in the face of more stringent planning requirements, faster implementation times, and limited resources? Renowned experts from the fields of urban policy, city management, and both practical and academic urban planning discussed the future of cities and urban planning at three symposia hosted by the Professor Albert Speer Foundation. Their arguments encourage us to leave behind established patterns of thinking and approach the tasks of the future with visionary ideas.
£29.70
JOVIS Verlag Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst: Anleitung zum Entwurf
Book SynopsisDas Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für den städtebaulichen Entwurf. Stadträume, Hofräume, Platzräume und Straßenräume werden anhand von 150 Beispielen aus über 70 deutschen Städten maßstäblich dargestellt, analysiert und verglichen. Das vierbändige Werk dokumentiert eindrucksvoll die in der Leipzig-Charta beschriebenen Qualitäten der europäischen Stadt: Schönheit und Dauerhaftigkeit, Nutzungsmischung, soziale Vielfalt, Dichte und die Trennung in öffentliche und private Räume. Herausgeber Christoph Mäckler knüpft an die Lehrbücher von Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin und Josef Stübben aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert an und liefert eine fundierte Anleitung zum Bauwerk Stadt. Mit Beiträgen von Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Christoph Mäckler, Werner Oechslin, Alexander Pellnitz, Jan Pieper, Birgit Roth, Mirjam Schmidt, Wolfgang Sonne, Jürg Sulzer und Anne Pfeil sowie Thomas Will
£100.35
JOVIS Verlag ICC Berlin
Book SynopsisBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) The ICC Berlin is a Gesamtkunstwerk, a giant time capsule that has been waiting for a new usage concept for almost a decade. Planned in the 1960s and opened in 1979, the exhibition building—designed by Ursulina Schüler-Witte and Ralf Schüler, and encompassing Frank Oehring’s incomparable wayfinding system—remains an attentiongrabbing structure. While the building’s brutalist exterior overwhelms the viewer, its interior conveys an air of calm, offering a view of the suddenly quieted traffic through its panoramic windows. This volume of photographs by Zara Pfeifer is dedicated to documenting the interior of the building. Taking an unsentimental approach, Pfeifer records the largely unchanged inner appearance of the building that has been variously dubbed the Giant of Witzleben, the Battleship Charlottenburg, or the Hall of Megalomania. Her images develop a sense for the building’s noteworthy elements and capture the liminal condition in which it has been suspended for years.
£26.55
JOVIS Verlag Women in Architecture Berlin: Facetten weiblicher
Book SynopsisFrauen in der Architektur sicht- und hörbar zu machen, ihnen eine Bühne zu geben, ihre Leistungen zu zeigen – das war das Anliegen des Women in Architecture Berlin Festivals 2021. Institutionen, Verbände und Initiativen im Bereich der Baukultur waren aufgefordert teilzunehmen. 70 Jahre nach dem Tod von Emilie Winkelmann, der ersten erfolgreichen deutschen Architektin, sollte Bilanz gezogen werden: Wer sind die starken Frauen von heute? Werden sie wahrgenommen? Wie steht es um die Gleichstellung in der Baukultur und den Umbau des Berufsbildes? Die Publikation zeigt auf, was Institutionen aus Politik, Lehre und Wirtschaft, was Chef*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen, Hochschulleiter*innen und Professor*innen tun können oder schon getan haben, damit es vorangeht auf der Baustelle Gleichstellung.
£27.45
JOVIS Verlag Der Eckhausgrundriss: Stadthäuser
Book SynopsisThe foundational research work Der Eckhausgrundriss by the Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst categorizes examples of corner building layouts from the past 200 years. With the help of these varied floor plans, it explains the principles to bear in mind when designing urban corner buildings. As such, it serves as an architectural aid in the design of corner buildings—an essential element of urban blocks—as well as clarifying the relationship between these buildings and the morphology of the city. The editors demonstrate that thoughtfully planned corner buildings, whether free-standing or attached, are required for the design of clearly defined urban spaces, as they have decisive impact on the spatial quality of the adjoining streets and squares. The third edition of this volume expands the collection of corner building floor plans with examples realized by twenty-nine architects in recent years, as well as a number of classic corner building layouts. In doing so, it further showcases the renewed importance of this type of building in contemporary architectural practice.
£31.82
Deutscher Verlag Fur Kunstwissenschaft Caspar David Friedrich: Seine Gedankengange
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£69.00
Arnoldsche Gesamtkunstwerke: Architecture by Arne Jacobsen
Book SynopsisThe architecture by Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling is of outstanding importance for post-war modernism in Germany. The calibre of their projects, however, has been forgotten. Gesamtkunstkwerke closes this gap in the appreciation of their work with a comprehensive presentation of seven out of eight German projects by the Danish master architects. Jacobsen and Weitling’s Scandinavian functionalism is a reflection of the visions of the former FRG – designs and commissions grounded in democracy, prestige and efficiency. The publication also takes stock of how the legacy of late modernism is being handled. The journey through the architects’ locales leads us to the sea, to model towns and to the intricacies of modernism, prompting a debate in accordance with Otto Weitling: ‘Pros and cons would be a positive sign because a building that isn’t talked about is usually not worth talking about.’ Text in English and German.
£35.70
Die Gestalten Verlag Isay Weinfeld
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£40.00
Edition Patrick Frey Robert & Trix Haussmann
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£26.60
Hauser & Wirth A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time:
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£28.00
Quart Publishers Claudio Greco Pier Luigi Nervi
Book SynopsisPier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) may be regarded equally as an engineer and an architect. Through his efforts to create a fusion of design and execution, his perceptive observations of building practice, and the development of more than 30 patents, Nervi made an important contribution to 20th century science and technology. This unique appraisal focuses on the pioneering phase in Nervi''s life, a period in which all the basic ideas for his later constructions were developed.
£41.85
Verlag Hochparterre AG Heinrich Tessenow
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£74.25
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Henri Matisse
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£12.26
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Wassily Kandinsky
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£15.00
