Книги издательства Thames & Hudson

This guide to the identification of motifs, designs and patterns of the rich weaving traditions of the Near East and Central Asia is an indispensable resource on Oriental rugs and carpets. The book is divided into six major regional and tribal gro...

This lavishly illustrated book presents the interiors of more than twenty Tuscan homes owned by some of the most renowned artists in the world today, among them Pietro Cascella, Sandro Chia, Isanna Generali, Igor Mitoraj and Gianni Ruffi. The book...

Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world and include many remarkable colour images c...

Exquisite jewelled minaudieres, necessaires and compacts from the l8th to the 21st. centuries, photographed in great detail are set within the social and fashion contexts of their creation, through original archive photographs of the social leaders, ...

This is the complete monograph of UN Studio’s output. In the seventeen years since Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established their studio in Amsterdam, they have continually pushed the boundaries of contemporary architecture, seeking new d...

100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. Includes projects by the world’s greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming...

In the first publication of the URBANITY project, readers can see thoughts of upcoming architects about the city and it’s potential. Urbanity Twenty Years Later is a long term regional research project which is rediscovering Central European...

Published to accompany the exhibition at the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, this volume celebrates and examines the tremendous influence the Flemish Primitives had on their eastern neighbours in Central Europe, from 1430 to 1530, focusing in particular on...

Reproduces the poetical and evocative paintings of nature from the period 1880–1910, covering a wide range of artists from the Symbolists movement This catalogue accompanied the first exhibition dedicated to landscapes by the Symbolists, the...

These moody, monochrome landscapes speak of an Italy far removed from the familiar, tourist images. Mostly ‘empty’ – without people – they highlight the intrinsic beauty of Venice itself, and capture the timelessness of the ci...

The exquisite creations of Fulco di Verdura stand out from the designs of other 20th-century jewelers for their exuberance and refined glamour. His devoted admirers included Cole Porter and his wife Linda, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, along w...

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) has been one of the most widely admired European painters since his so-called rediscovery in the second half of the nineteenth century. Until quite recently, the Romantic roots of writing on the Sphinx of Delft have en...

Vertical gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a grey city street or a cold modern building. This is the first book to present a collection of the most important examples of this emerging trend. Those wh...

This photographic project by Gabriele Basilico, in association with the architect Umberto Zanetti, was inspired by a desire to document this metamorphosis, and takes as its focal point the city’s seven Stalinist towers, known in Russian as the ...

The entire story of jazz from its earliest days in New Orleans to the 1970s and beyond told through archival material from Verve, the genres most important label. Verve signed practically every major jazz artist of the 1950s and 1960s and is home ...