Книги издательства V&A Victoria Albert Museum

A short introduction covers the history of carpets in the West, from the 16th-century when they became synonymous with wealth and fashionable living, and were often included in the portraits of the day. In the nineteenth century they were reapprai...

Published to accompany the V&A's retrospective The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains 13 May - 15 October 2017. With special lenticular cover. The first book ever produced with full access the Pink Floyd archive. Publish...

The radical ideas associated with Postmodernism swept through the arts in the 1970s, but have always been hard to summarise. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion presents the movement as not merely an aesthetic vocabulary, but also as a subversive...

Photographer, costume designer, avid diarist - Cecil Beaton was also a 'romantic royalist' whose glittering photographs of Queen Elizabeth II became among the most widely published portraits of the twentieth century. This fascinating book exp...

Rings are perhaps the most common and yet the most evocative pieces of jewellery. Worn as a sign of love or as a fashion accessory, to mark weddings, remember the dead, or show religious faith, the unbroken circle, decorated or elegantly unadorned, h...

This sumptuously illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, exquisite stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up the clothing in the V&A’s superlative seventeeth- and eighteenth-century fashio...

Graffiti has evolved into a rich and democratic form of visual expression that is now most often labelled ‘street art’. As it matures, street art has moved indoors; galleries now exhibit and sell limited-edition prints by established arti...

The Ambassador has been described as 'probably the most daring and enterprising trade magazine ever conceived'. With the motto 'Export or Die!', the magazine was renowned for its innovative design and adventurous editorial approach in...

Ornament has been central to Western culture for thousands of years, and surrounds us every day, whether on buildings, clothes and accessories, cars or corporate products. Behind this desire to decorate lies a need to give meaning to the things we ma...

Originally referring only to the famed fabrics of Jouy-en-Josas,‘toiles de Jouy’ has today become the catch-all term for the delightful printed cottons preferred by the aristocratic elite in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, made...

This glamorous book, part of the V&A Fashion in Detail series, illustrates the intricate details of twentieth-century fashion. Spectacular photographs, accompanied by expert commentaries and specially commissioned line drawings, focus on fanciful...

From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps and girdles to garters, Underwear: Fashion in Detail gets up close and personal with some of the most intimate items in the V&A. Lynn traces the evolution of underwear, drawing on 120 objects tha...

This box set contains the next four titles in the popular V&A series of patterns books. Beautifully designed, accessible and informative, the box set is a respository of ideas for designers of all kinds but also a collectable object in itself. Co...

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images. Chinese Textiles moves through the centuries highlighting the motifs of luxurious courtly robe...

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images. Digital Pioneers showcases the work of post-war designers and artists using new technology to ...