Книги издательства Thames & Hudson

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them i...

The Worldwide History of Dress covers every notable geographical region, historical period and style of costume worldwide – from Upper Paleolithic plant-fibre skirts, Ancient Egyptian linen shifts and Roman togas, through Mongolian shamanic rob...

A visual journey through four decades of Thierry Mugler’s unmistakable style and inexhaustible creativity. The designs of the iconic French couturier Thierry Mugler convey a powerful and seductive image of womanhood. His architectural, ultra...

How do you: Design a building using an electron microscope? Produce a stunning new bus for London that uses less fuel too? Make someone eat your business card? Develop a new kind of mosque? Turn the back door
of a hospital into its front door? ...

How do you: Design a building using an electron microscope? Produce a stunning new bus for London that uses less fuel too? Make someone eat your business card? Develop a new kind of mosque? Turn the back door
of a hospital into its front door? ...

A celebration of embroidery in contemporary art, illustrating the myriad ways it has been embraced as a form of creative expression Showcasing over 80 international artists who incorporate embroidery into their practice, this book provides a surve...

This beautiful book draws on the rich collections of the Musée de la Toile de Jouy to produce the first-ever complete history of these textiles. The illustrations include original designs conserved in the museum, exceptional historical example...

Tokyo Street Style profiles the daring and influential designers and labels at this epicentre of Japanese and global fashion. Offering a pop cultural history of the scene, a snapshot of where it is today, and a glimpse into its future, this dazzling ...

The first major overview of the UK's leading garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith 'The garden can be a place where the sense of otherness, of nature and of place is so strong that we have a powerful awareness of being, not masters of all we s...

With nearly 500 detailed illustrations, plans and photographs, this is the definitive professional, international resource for workplace design. From Selgas Cano’s semi-subterranean, tubular office in a forest near Madrid, to the ‘living ...

This work explores the multifarious significance given in India to decorative jewellery formed of materials as diverse as horn and feathers as well as gold and diamonds. The jewellery presented here ranges from traditional animalistic and ritual piec...

Pierre Le-Tan’s illustrations and Bertil Scali’s entertaining pen portraits tell the stories of the world’s most celebrated travellers, impeccably presented in a luxurious volume From heiresses to actors, aristocrats to pop stars...

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...