Woman's Sweater with ribbed detail. Choose your favrourite shade of Hayfield Bonus Chunky for this quick knit. You will also need: 1 Pair of 6.5mm (UK3 - US10.5) Knitting Needles, 1 Pair of 5.5mm(UK5 - US9) Knitting Needles and St…

Four stunning blanket or afghan designs that would make the perfect gift for a newborn. Created using our soft Snuggly 4 Ply yarn, these delicate lacy stitches are much more hardwearing than they look! Machine washable and tumble …

Four stunning blanket or afghan designs that would make the perfect gift for a newborn. Created using our soft Snuggly 4 Ply yarn, these delicate lacy stitches are much more hardwearing than they look! Machine washable and tumble …

Cosy textured cardigans knitted in gentle Sirdar Snuggly 4 Ply finished with rib trims, using simple knit and purl stitches to create beautiful textures. You can knit these sweet baby cardigans in sizes from premature baby to todd…

Cosy textured cardigans knitted in gentle Sirdar Snuggly 4 Ply finished with rib trims, using simple knit and purl stitches to create beautiful textures. You can knit these sweet baby cardigans in sizes from premature baby to todd…

A beautiful gift for a precious little one up to 12 months. Knit this set in your favourite Snuggly DK shade. Our special Snuggly formula ensures knits in Britain's favourite baby yarn remain soft and gentle machine wash after mac…

A beautiful gift for a precious little one up to 12 months. Knit this set in your favourite Snuggly DK shade. Our special Snuggly formula ensures knits in Britain's favourite baby yarn remain soft and gentle machine wash after mac…

Hooded or round neck cardigan knitted in all over double moss stitch with diamond cable detail for younger children up to 13 years. You'll also need: 1 Pair of 5mm (6UK - USA8) Knitting Needles and 1 Pair of 4mm (UK8 - USA6) Knitt…

Hooded or round neck cardigan knitted in all over double moss stitch with diamond cable detail for younger children up to 13 years. You'll also need: 1 Pair of 5mm (6UK - USA8) Knitting Needles and 1 Pair of 4mm (UK8 - USA6) Knitt…

A sweet double breasted duffle coat with raglan sleeves and co-ordinating blanket from our Building Blocks collections of modern knitting patterns for babies. In these easy knitting patterns you'll use basic garter stitch througho…

Helmut Newton (1920-2004) always showed a healthy disdain for the easy or predictable, so it's no surprise that the SUMO was an irresistible project. The idea of a book the size of a private exhibition, with spectacular images rep…

From Azzedine Alaia, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century's worth of fashion greats are celebrated in this new edition of Fashion Designers A-Z.…

On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, u…

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he develo…

From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 1999, creator George Lucas began the story of how Anakin Skywa…

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the…

The Wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities," saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind's knowledge in a single ro…

ernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian's "Boterismo" technique has captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwide with a unique, fleshy, overblown approach to the h…

Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launche…

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541 -1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progress…

orn Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings prese…

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case Study House #22. At its eagle's nest promontory above Los Angeles, the building is a vision of streamlined glass and steel, its slick li…

Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience. Mies van der Rohe…

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term "Neo-plasticism", he pursued a styl…

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics-and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the in…

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the …

Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to t…

Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens …

Raphael (1483–1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short lifetime he created around one hundred paintings and numerous frescoes, including nine f…

A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico’s most important artist―along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo―Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, wh…