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During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture. From family values to the structure of the civil service, Han thinking and philosophy continue to pervade Chinese society up to the present day - indeed, the majority of Chinese people consider themselves 'Han Chinese'. In their search for immortality, the Han imperial family left an artistic legacy of spectacular beauty and power.

The finest of these treasures to have survived - including exquisite jades, silver and goldwork, bronzes and ceramics - have been found in the tombs of the Han imperial family and of a rival 'emperor' of Nanyue and are brought together for the first time in a landmark exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The accompanying catalogue, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field, presents a ground-breaking account and is sumptuously illustrated by nearly 500 striking photographs, many of them specially commissioned.

This is your complete guide to sewing absolutely everything, from altering clothes to home decor. Master every sewing technique in the book!

Fully illustrated and easy to use, this sewing book covers all the essential skills and techniques for successful hand and machine sewing. It's a must-have for beginners and expert stitchers alike.

Comprehensive step-by-step instructions cover everything from cutting out patterns to making sleeves and stitching hems. Accompanied by close-up photographs, clear instructions, and a glossary of sewing terminology to demystify even the trickiest technique. This book will help you advance from a sewing learner to a seasoned stitcher in no time.

All the techniques and projects are graded by difficulty level, from the simple and straightforward to the more complex and challenging ones. There are 10 new, stylish projects to help you put into practice what you've learned. Explore in-depth descriptions on more than 100 tools, 250 techniques, and browse an updated visual directory of more than 50 fabrics.

From basic sewing kits and cutting tools to measuring tools and marking aids, this book will also help you get properly kitted out! Zoomed-in photographs of hand and machine tools show you the best equipment for the job and teaches you exactly how to use it.

A Stitch in Time

There have been over 375,000 copies sold worldwide, making this is the ultimate sewing book!

We will guide you through every hand stitch, machine stitch, and sewing technique you'll ever need. We've included the best way to seam and hem, and put in linings, fasteners, darts, pleats, and pockets, and how to create necklines, collars, and sleeves, so you can make your favourite bespoke outfits.

Inside the pages of this sewing guide, you'll find:

- Up-to-date techniques to help you master the art of sewing and develop your stitching skills.
- How to choose and use today's sewing equipment, fabrics, and paper patterns.
- 10 new projects for stylish homeware and clothing.
- Step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions.

Flash forward The Super Hero in the Space Age

With Super Heroes nearly extinct at the start of the 1950s, DC Comics reignited the fire that would make them central to modern popular culture by infusing them with science fiction elements. To circumvent the limitations of the self-censoring Comics Code Authority, DC Comics’ writers and editors spun ever-more fantastic tales, bringing Super Heroes and Bob Hope alike into the realm of sci-fi. The results were transformative, delivering the first-ever “reboot” of Golden Age greats with the Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman as well as the hit TV show Batman. The Silver Age of DC Comics chronicles it all, right down to the wacky shenanigans of television’s Batman, which made him the embodiment for the camp sensibility of the ’60s and further immortalized the Dark Knight as a pop culture icon for generations to come. Plus a new exclusive interview with Green Lantern/Batman artist Neal Adams!

About the series:

TASCHEN’s series on DC Comics explores the origins of comics’ most enduring legends and the behind-the-scenes stories of the men and women who created them, era by era. Expanded from the Eisner Award–winning XL book, 75 Years of DC Comics, this new series hits the shelf at a reader-friendly size with essays updated by author Paul Levitz and more than 1,000 new images across five volumes. Thousands of covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles have been reproduced to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life, making this an invaluable reference for comics fans.

The author:

Paul Levitz is a comic book fan who has worked as editor/publisher of The Comic Reader, editor of the Batman titles and others, writer of more than 300 stories—including an acclaimed run on Legion of Super-Heroes—and a DC Comics executive, finishing his 38-year stint with the company as President and Publisher. He returned to writing in 2010 with a new series of Legion stories and other projects.

The Sketch book provides a readily available support for anyone to put down on paper one's thoughts, ideas, notes. Sketch books are highly personalized and eventually result in interesting compilations of text, scribbles, simple pencil sketches, elaborate ink drawings, color renderings, photographs, collages and photomontages. It is both useful for the artist who fills up the pages as a record of the development of one or various projects and for others to see the evolution, step by step.

A comprehensive volume celebrating jewellery, featuring a broad range of artistic and intellectual perspectives.

This volume offers unique and previously unpub­lished insight on the world of jewellery. Calling upon specialists from every creative and intellectual discipline — artist or composer, botanist or perfumer, novelist or philosopher — this reference volume exam­ines jewellery in all of its different facets, from anthro­pology to philosophy to art. Alongside its sensitive and cultural insight into the art of jewellery making, this volume is richly illustrated with drawings and archives from Maison Chaumet and photographs by Simone Cavadini and Julia Hetta that offer new perspectives on the jewel.

This tome has been published in collaboration with Maison Chaumet.

About the Author:

Contributors include botanist Marc Jeanson, miner­alogist Erik Gonthier, artist Joana Vasconcelos, architects Jakob+MacFarlane, auctioneer Benoit Repellin, senior curator and specialist in Art Deco Evelyne Possémé, composer and pianist Karol Beffa, novelist Carole Martinez, perfumer Frédéric Malle, art historian Charline Coupeau, journalist Virginie Mouzat, French literature specialist Sophie Pelletier, senior curator and specialist in Asian art Amin Jaffer, philosopher Emanuele Coccia, and photographer Julia Hetta.

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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Fashion Design is a cutting-edge design anthology featuring more than 300 established and emerging fashion designers around the world.

Included here in in impressive 650 pages, are the world′s most notable contemporary designers -- master couturiers and up-and-coming designers alike, showcasing their work in graphic full-color photographs and illustrations. For ease of reference, fashion design illustrations, photographs, and explanations are categorized according to design and style. Also included is a visual index for quick reference and designers′ contact information. This impressive fashion design book is the first large-scale book of its kind to showcase a complete and diverse range of contemporary fashion designers notable for their work in couture and ready-to-wear clothing. The case studies incorporate every type of design project possible-from the t-shirt to the evening dress, and from shoes to handbags and jewlery-making this lushly illustrated, information-rich book an invaluable resource that designers, design students, fashion retailers and fashionista will turn to again and again.

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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Fashion Design is a cutting-edge anthology featuring established and emerging fashion designers from around the world. Included in these pages are the world’s most notable contemporary fashion designers - master couturiers and up-and-coming designers alike - revealing initial line drawings and sketches of their work, along with the inspiration behind their designs and finished runway shots. This gorgeous resource showcases a diverse range of contemporary fashion designers notable for their work in couture and ready-to-wear clothing.

The Sourcebook of Contemporary Graphic Design is a cutting-edge design anthology featuring material from established and emerging designers around the world, as well as hundreds of full-color examples of work forging new graphic ground across a complete range of visual media.

For ease of reference, graphic design illustrations and explanations are categorized according to design type: websites, brochures, posters, company reports, stationary, and promotional materials. Also included is a visual index for quick reference and designers' contact information.

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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration is a cutting-edge anthology featuring material from established and emerging illustrators around the world, as well as hundreds of full-color examples of artwork forging new ground across a complete range of visual media.

The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration features the best illustrators from around found together in one place along with all their contact details. For ease of reference, illustrations are catagorized according to theme. Also included is a visual index for quick reference and artists' contact information.

Featuring the world's most notable, modern-day jewelry designers, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design is filled with more than 1300 photographs and illustrations that showcase each artist's unique and diverse style. This large-scale, beautifully designed anthology offers readers an in-depth look at established and emerging international designers, providing stunning visual examples of their jewelry, along with detailed explanations that reveal the inspiration behind their work. From architectural rings and paper-made bracelets, to smart necklaces and transformable earrings, this book is a must have for anyone interested in jewelry and design.

The Stained-Glass Windows of St. Andrew’s Dune Churchis a visual exploration of a treasure in the Hamptons: the extraordinary windows of a summer resort church span nearly 150 years of stained glass in America.

Stained-glass windows are superb works of art, and the 45 stunning windows in St. Andrew’s Dune Church, a red-shingled 1879 structure nestled among the dunes in Southampton, New York, make this intimately scaled house of worship one of the most picturesque summer resort churches on the eastern seaboard.

The diverse assemblage ranges from breathtaking opalescent-glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany and John LaFarge to Pre-Raphaelite-inspired panes by the British firm Heaton; Butler & Bayne to lushly floral windows by Bostonian Wilbur Herbert Burnham; and, coming full circle, to Stephen Hannock’s opalescent-glass landscape window, installed in 2020. All contributed by congregants to memorialize loved ones, the windows offer a stunning overview of the history of stained glass from the 19th century to today.

In her authoritative text, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen recounts the storied history of the church, including the devastation to the building and many of its windows caused by the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, and describes each window in vivid detail: its subject, artistic style, and the person it memorializes. Illustrated with beautiful photographs of the church by Tria Giovan and specially commissioned images of every window by Joseph Coscia Jr., The Stained-Glass Windows of St. Andrew’s Dune Church brings a little-known treasure of American decorative arts history to a wider audience.

About the Author:

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the author or coauthor of five books on the stained glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, among many other publications. She lives in New York City. Tria Giovan specializes in interiors, still life, food, and portrait photography. Her books include Vendome’s Summer to Summer: Houses by the Sea, Out East: Houses and Gardens of the Hamptons, and Island Hopping: Amanda Lindroth Design. Giovan lives in Sag Harbor and New York City. Joseph Coscia Jr. is head photographer at the Frick Collection and formerly chief photographer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This beautifully illustrated, full-colour history of costume has been produced by bestselling author John Peacock especially for children.

With over 325 hand-drawings and clearly written descriptions on every page, it will delight children and be a wonderful resource for parents, teachers and librarians.

• every historical period from Ancient Greek and Byzantine times, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, right down the centuries to the present day
• from servants and labourers to nobility and royalty
• from the tunics of Ancient Egypt and the togas of Ancient Rome to the royal finery of sixteenth-century England, the French revolution and beyond
• every aspect of fashion, including shoes, hats, bags and other accessories, as well as jewelry and hairstyles

About the Author:

John Peacock has worked as a fashion and costume designer and lecturer in fashion history. He was for several years senior costume designer for BBC Television, and is the author of many books on costume.

Mirroring the evolution of society’s values, the history of underwear highlights the continuous, dancing exchange that exists between women's styles and men’s fashion. Undergarments are concealed, flaunted, stretched or shortened, establishing a game between yesterday’s illicit and today’s chic and thereby denouncing the sense of
disgrace that these simple pieces of clothing used to betray.

Featuring two separate works on male and female underwear, this study is full of surprises and powerful reflections on man’s relationship with his body, and woman’s with hers. From the ordinary, discreet underwear of ancient times to the boxer briefs and seductive push-up bras of the 21st century, this work demonstrates how much the radical dictates of fashion reflect the evolution of both the male and female archetypes, as well as the overall values of an era.

This book, the one mainly targets at the showing of signboard and façade design of some excellent shops, selects more than 200 distinctive cases to give its readers fully interpretation. Its brilliant organization, with incisive text and fancy pictures, further enhances its readability. 11 different categories are covered in this book, including flagship store of luxury brand, leisure and entertainment facilities, dining space, art space, commercial plaza and etc. Some are international top brands like LV, Hermes and Armani; others may be less famous tiny shops of unique shopfront designs. So rich in content that this book will play a very big part in guiding the designers with various shopfront designs.

Project Introduction:

006-007　Flagship Store of Luxury Brands
008-011　Swarovski　［Central, Hongkong］
012-013　Swarovski　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
014-015　Salvatore Ferragamo　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
016-017　Prada　［Central, Hongkong］
018-019　Prada　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
020-023　Prada　［Shanghai International Financial Center］
024-028　Novo　［The Mixc, Shenzhen］
029-029　Novo　［Grand View Mall, Guangzhou］
030-033　Nike Store　［Beijing］
034-035　Miu Miu　［Tsim sha Tsui］
036-037　MaxMara　［Hongkong］
038-043　Louis Vuitton　［Central, Hongkong］
044-049　Louis Vuitton　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
050-059　Louis Vuitton　［Shanghai］
060-061　Hermes　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
062-063　Hermes　［Beijing］
064-067　Harvey Nichols　［Hongkong］
068-069　Gucci　［Central, Hongkong］
070-071　Gucci　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
072-073　Gucci　［Central, Hongkong］
074-075　Gucci　［Beijing］
076-077　Armani　［Central, Hongkong］
078-082　Giorgio Armani　［China Central Square, Beijing］
083-083　Fendi　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
084-085　Dior　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
086-087　Coach　［Central, Hongkong］
088-088　Coach　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
089-089　Chanel　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
090-090　Cartier　［Central, Hongkong］
091-091　Cartier　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
092-093　Cartier　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
094-095　Burberry　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
096-099　Burberry　［Beijing］
100-101　Adidas　［Beijing］
102-103　Fashion Store
104-108　:Chocoolate　［Beijing］
109-109　6ixty 8ight　［Hongkong］
110-110　Bla Bla Bra　［Hongkong］
111-111　Broadcast　［Beijing］
112-112　Diesel　［Hongkong］
113-113　Hosa　［Shanghai］
114-115　Teddy Family　［Beijing］
116-117　Joyce　［Hongkong］
118-119　Uniqlo　［Beijing］
120-121　Catalog　［Beijing］
122-122　Timberland　［London, UK］
123-123　Mascot Fashion　［Guangzhou］
124-124　Pa Fashion Store　［Guangzhou］
125-125　Esppit　［Hongkong］
126-126　Ariose & Years　［Hangzhou］
127-127　Sport 100　［Shanghai］
128-129　Luggage, Shoes and Hats Store
130-130　Lancel　［Shanghai］
131-131　Le Saunda　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
132-133　Longchamp　［Hongkong］
134-135　Mcm　［Hongkong］
136-137　Shoes　［Shanghai］
138-139　Watch & Jewellery
140-141　Anubis　［Shanghai］
142-142　Fochtmann　［Germany］
143-143　Kornmesser　［Austria］
144-144　Schullin　［Austria］
145-146　TiffanyY&Co　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
147-147　Lukfook Jewellery　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
148-149　Chou Tai Fook　［Hongkong］
150-150　Chou Sang Sang　［Hongkong］
151-151　Shining House　［Hongkong］
152-152　Breguet　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
153-153　Egg Optical Boutique　［Hongkong］
154-154　Franck Muller　［Shanghai］
155-155　Omega　［Hongkong］
156-159　Rolex　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
160-161　Rolex　［Causeway Bay, Hongkong］
162-162　Van Cleef & Arpels　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
163-163　Zenith　［Hongkong］
164-165　Commercial Plaza
166-167　Raffles City　［Beijing］
168-168　IFC Mall　［Shanghai］
169-169　Taikoo Hui　［Guangzhou]

Illustrated survey with expert on Tiffany glass as its guide. Topics include traditional and stained glass items; Tiffany revival; varieties of glass and tools; soldering; cutting glass; design; window ornaments; lead cane lampshades; copper foil techniques. For crafters at every level of experience. 252 black-and-white illustrations. 8 full-color illustrations. Bibliography. Index.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1975.