Книги издательства Thames & Hudson

Jewelry was one of the purest, and most successful, expressions of Art Nouveau style, using sensuous organic forms to create a vast range of objects of exceptional beauty and inventiveness. Leading expert Vivienne Becker provides an account of the mo...

Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also be...

An accessible and hugely popular history of art explained through many of the world’s most famous masterpieces This comprehensive, vibrant book leads you through the world’s iconic images – those that we encounter every time we o...

Western-style furniture was a relatively late arrival in Asia, where climates and lifestyles were markedly different from those in Europe. But furniture design in Asia quickly blossomed into a major decorative art. Each of the countries covered he...

A vibrant visual journey into Asian fashion at its best What is the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Asian street fashion? Perhaps it is Tokyo’s wacky concoctions, a mishmash of styles combined with an ease that belies thei...

Australian Architecture Now is a crucial record of the most significant buildings created in one of the most fascinating and dynamic countries in the world during its unprecedented building boom of the 1990s. Projects range from the breezy east-...

This dazzling array of photographs by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers focuses on self-portraits. From intimate images of introspection and those that challenge notions of ethnicity and sexuality, to dramatic, ...

Contemporary garden design has embraced the latest thinking in science and materials, architecture and product design – redefining the border between nature and the man-made. One indication of the rise in popularity – and controversy &...

An impeccably researched and beautifully produced concise history of bags through the ages, with examples drawn from the Victoria & Albert Museum's remarkable collection From the hand-stitched embroidered purses of the 16th century, to the...

“We do what we can with fabric — but Balenciaga does anything he wants.”  —Christian Dior Cristóbal Balenciaga made his name in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s in the golden age of haute couture. He was hailed b...

This was the profession of faith of the man whom Dior called ‘the master of us all’. Strict, even ascetic, Balenciaga was, with Chanel, Dior and Schiaparelli, one of the icons of the golden age of haute couture. The care he took with a ga...

A photographic encyclopaedia of industrial buildings and plants of unsurpassed importance, gradually compiled over more than forty years of artistic endeavour. Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings brings together a representative selection from the...

The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left a...

Cecil Beaton (1904 -1980) was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. In his twenties Beaton recorded London and New York society in needle-sharp words and drawings. Condé Nast, the owner of Vogue, compelled him to aba...