The Manly Art of Knitting is a cult classic that is now back in print! This amusing, yet practical guide to knitting provides a step-by-step guide for beginners as well as those taking up the needles again. Containing all of the original black and white illustrations and photographs from the 1972 edition, you can’t help but smile at the shots of well-worked hands delicately knitting a blanket for a dog, horse or female companion.

Chapters include: basics, pattern stitches (garter, stockinette, purl, rib, moss, rise, and basket weave), projects, and problems.

Hardcover
64 Pages

This set of six coasters can be used individually or artfully arranged to form an eye catching tiled trivet. The illusion of 3D through color and geometry allows for endless combinations, encouraging playful mosaic building on your table. Ideal as a housewarming gift for those with discerning taste or as decoration for your own gatherings.

Each tile measures 3.6 x 3.25 inches

Asked in 1905 what colors he used, Monet said: “The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit. Anyway, I use flake white, cadmium yellow, vermilion, deep madder, cobalt blue, emerald green, and that’s all.”

Finish: giclee print on solid brass, electro-plated with non-tarnishing silver finish, with ear wires that are hypo-allergenic.
Hangs approximately 1 3/4 inches

Monet’s water garden at his beloved Giverny was the focus of the last thirty years of his painting. As Monet remarked to a critic in 1909, his image of the water garden “evokes in you the idea of the infinite; you experience there, as in microcosm… the instability of the universe which transforms itself at every moment before our eyes.”

Finish: giclee print on solid brass, electro-plated with non-tarnishing silver finish.
Approximately 1 x 3 3/4 inches

Classic art takes center stage on these Great Wave crew socks by Hokusai.
Fits Ladies Shoe Size 4 – 10.5 Large
58% Cotton 40% Nylon 2% Spandex
Machine Wash Cold, Inside Out.
Only Non-Chlorine Bleach when needed.
Tumble dry low.

Full of fascinating locations and scene photos from the late ‘70s and ‘80s NYC, Desperately Seeking Basquiat features great maps, short punchy texts and insightful quotes from Basquiat’s contemporaries. For anyone wanting to know more, much more, about the man behind some of the coolest, most iconic art of the 20th Century, it’s indispensable.

128 pages, Hardcover
5″ x 7″

For someone who traveled as much as he did, it is a marvel that Andy Warhol had time to make art. Desperately Seeking Warhol traces the artist’s movements around the globe. Relentless in the pursuit of new avenues to create and sell his work, Warhol set up shop in a dizzying variety of locales, working for and with other artists, musicians, controversial world leaders and more. The maps and location profiles here form a fascinating picture of a larger-than-life cultural icon whose energy few have been able to match since.

128 pages, Hardcover
5″ x 7″

A super cute board book celebrating love in all its forms featuring works by Alex Katz, Gustav Klimt, Mary Cassatt, Keith Haring, Helen Frankenthaler and so many others! Perfect gift for your Valentine’s Day sweetheart.

Boardbook
46 pages
6 X 7 3/4 inches

February 2022 Art of Reading book club selection.

A New York Times best seller

Smith’s terrifically evocative and splendidly titled memoir of her and Robert Mapplethorpe’s close friendship is a testament to devotees of downtown Manhattan’s last momentous period of 20th-century artistic ferment. It is also her portrait of two young artists’ ascent, a prelude to fame. It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. … Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. … Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. A New York Times best seller.