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    1001 REMARKABLE OBJECTS

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    1001 REMARKABLE OBJECTS A celebration of the scale, breadth and relevance of the decorative arts and design collections held by Powerhouse Museum, ...

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    ABCDCS: David Collins Studio - ON SALE!

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     "When I look around my houses in New York or London I am struck by what an influence he has had on me. He has left his souvenirs everywhere. His t...

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    A Complete Examination of Middlesex - ON SALE!

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    “What I’m searching for when I walk the street are people I can engage with: somebody whose face, and particularly eyes, scream a story.”– Bruce Gi...

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  • A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles Wallpapers and Containers and Packaging 1951-54

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    Published to accompany an eponymous exhibition organized by UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, A Designed Life: Contemporary America...

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    After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design

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    AfterTaste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design is an edited volume comprising texts, interviews and portfolios that collectively document new th...

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    An Uncertain Grace - ON SALE!

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    By the author of Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age "Salgado shows us that concealed within the pain of living and the tragedy of dying ...

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  • Art

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    **Shortlisted, ALS Gold Medal 2023** ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidab...

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  • Angela Valamanesh About Being Here

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    Angela Valamanesh is one of Australia's most intriguing ceramic artists. Her art is aesthetically minimal and cunningly simple, allowing us to inte...

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    Art Cities of the Future 21st-Century Avant-Gardes - ON SALE!

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    Today the art world is more of a world in every sense, with a larger population, a wider territory and a greater number of nationalities. Its preva...

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    Australian Jewellery: 19th and Early 20th Century - ON SALE!

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    This book documents the styles and fashions from European settlement through the colonial era and goldrush periods and provides detailed informatio...

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  • Australia Modern

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    Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925-1975   From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-after homes across the ...

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    Carsten Höller: Experience - ON SALE!

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    Carsten Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house. He explores important themes such as architecture, childhood, love...

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  • Ceramics An Atlas of Forms

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    What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history...

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  • Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans

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    Captures the feel of the ceramicist’s studio with new appreciation for the beautiful, functional, and accessible works being produced by a new gene...

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  • Designer's Dictionary of Colour

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    The Designer's Dictionary of Colour provides an in-depth look at 30 colours key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in colour-by-colo...

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  • Design lives here

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    Penny Craswell is a Sydney-based editor, writer and curator who specialises in design, craft, architecture and interiors. She is the former Edito...

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  • Exhibition publication for Eucalyptusdom, which reckons with Australian cultural history and relationship with the gum tree. It showcases more than 20 creative practitioners commissioned to produce new works in dialogue with 500+ objects from the Powerhouse collection. Includes new work by acclaimed Australian author Ashley Hay, a 32-page folio of art photography by Amanda Williams, and an oral history shared by D’harawal Elder Aunty Fran Bodkin. Edited by Sally Rose. Design by Studio Ongarato.
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    Eucalyptusdom reckons with Australia’s cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree. This publication expands upon a body of r...

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    Evidence: Brook Andrew - ON SALE!

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    ‘Evidence brings to light objects that tell the story of resistance, social change, and the struggle for rights and liberties. Some of the objects ...

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    Fashion Together Conversations with Fashions Most Influential Collaborators - ON SALE!

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    Today's fashion designers and stylists are no longer faceless credited names, but rather public personas who often attain celebrity status. Unique ...

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  • First Knowledges Box Set - BACK ORDERS (DUE FEB-25)

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    Secure your Box Set as a "back order". This stock is due for replenishment in February, 2025. What do you need to know to prosper as a people for a...

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  • First Knowledges Design: Building on Country

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    The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future....

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  • Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space

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    A compact sourcebook of ideas for innovative furnishing, interior environments and small-scale architectural interventions.As the definition of 'de...

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  • Galang 01 feature essays from Indigenous led think tank Powerhouse-galang. The collective is composed of First Nations artists, curators, scholars Dr Brook Garru Andrew, Dr Léuli Eshrãghi, Dr Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Lisa Hilli, Dr Biung Ismahasan, Gail Mabo, Mayunkiki. They discuss the role of cultural institutions in past and present colonisations of First Nations people, sharing creative practice and challenging narratives of sovereignty, decolonisation, identity, power and language.
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    PowerThe galang collective convenes regularly to discuss the role of museums and other cultural institutions in the past and present colonisation o...

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    The galang collective convenes regularly to discuss the role of museums and other cultural institutions in the past and present colonisation of Fir...

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