CINDERELLAS IN BREECHES- LANDGIRL UNIFORM...

The Jan/Feb issue of Selvedge has just arrived at Material. This is a fantastic issue featuring Cinderellas in Breeches, a Tailors Story, Men of the Cloth and the world of Timothy Everest.

Selvedge is available in store and via mail order and is £10.

THE ART OF JAPANESE MANHOLE COVERS AND MORE...

The new issues of Exit, Monocle and Creative Review have arrived in store this week.


For Monocle's February issue- The Hospitality issue- there is a round-up of the world's best hotels and hosts, comments from hospitality experts and our illustrated guide to perfect inn-keeping. It also features a 28-page regional survey of Liguria, Italy...


You can visit the Creative Review website to see sample spreads of this months issue which features a cover designed by Montreal, Paris and Amsterdam-based creative agency, Sid Lee. Plus, you can find out about the art of Japanese Manhole Covers and digital magazines....

...and follow the link at the top to find out more about Exit magazine.

HAND PRINTED VALENTINES CARDS

Recently arrived at material are two new lovely hand printed Valentines cards by Sarah Ray.

The cards are silk screen printed and cost £2.50 a pop.

We have plenty of other card designs to choose from, many of which are hand printed so come and find something for your valentine.

NEW ISSUE OF DAZED...

The new issue of Dazed & Confused is now in stock featuring the Dutch legends that are Viktor & Rolf who explain how their stunning tulle ballgowns defy both gravity and conventional economic wisdom. Elsewhere, bodycon meets sportswear in a shoot styled by Dazed senior fashion editor Karen Langley, and we talk to Raf Simons, Lucas Ossendrijver, Domenico Dolce and Damir Doma about their deconstruction of menswear.

PLUS...A FREE TSHIRT WITH EVERY ISSUE!

THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY...

We have just had delivery of The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & other stories by Tim Burton- as recommended by a dear friend of ours.

The book comprises of twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and Nightmare Before Chistmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of these hopeful, yet hapless beings.

Paperback/ 128 pages/ £8.99

Available in store or via mail order.

GO BACK IN TIME FOR SOME RECESSION STYLE EATING...

We recently stumbled across this wonderful book of wartime recipes, perfect for penny pinching traditional home cooking.

Supplemented by recipes by the Daily Telegraph Home Cook, this delightful facsimile edition includes recipes for the perfect omelette made with dried egg, mock cream, mock fish pie (made with Jerusalem artichokes!) and seven ways to stuff potatoes, but in amongst the more horrific attempts to feed a family on meagre rations are some dishes that would grace any good cook's table today: jugged steak, red cabbage, hot and cold, fresh fruit charlotte and spiced fruit gingerbread. Even recipes that seem heavily reliant on tinned milk, marge and dried egg, when made today with fresh milk, butter and whole eggs will work a treat.

Available in store or via mail order.
129 pages/ 184mm x 122mm/ £7.99

Coco & I Know How to Cook Back in Stock

Both Coco and I know How To Cook are back in stock today. Both beautiful foody/ cooking books published by Phaidon.

• The bible of traditional French home cooking with 1400 recipes, I Know How to Cook has been a best-seller since its first publication in 1932, with millions of copies sold in France, it is now available in English for the first time.
• Curated by Ferran Adrià, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennet, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Yoshihiro Murata, Gordon Ramsay, René Redzepi, Alice Waters, and Jacky Yu, Coco provides unique insights into the incredible variety of culinary talent working today in places as diverse as Paris, Copenhagen, Kyoto, New Orleans, Bilbao, and Beijing