Книги видавництва Thames & Hudson

Here, in more than 1250 full-colour illustrations, is the most comprehensive and detailed history and sourcebook of fashion in the modern era ever published. From the styles of the early 1900s to those of the 21st century, John Peacock charts the ...

Vintage glasses of all shapes, styles and sizes – the very best of 20th- and 21st-century spectacle design for fashion designers, stylists, lovers of vintage, and anyone seeking spectacle inspiration. Beautifully illustrated with specially c...

With more than 1,000 illustrations, Fashion: The Whole Story follows the evolution of fashion via its most important moments – and most impracticable fads – culminating in the modern era of the supermodel Fashion: The Whole Story ...

Spray-on dresses, growable suits and self-cleaning shirts may soon become everyday items. This visionary exploration of where fashion and clothing are headed provides the first guide to the astonishing ways in which contemporary science and technolog...

The first book to celebrate the life and work of Australian designer Grant Featherston, best known for his Contour chairs and creator of hundreds of mid-century designs. This is the first book to celebrate the life and work of Grant Featherston (1...

‘Every Fit Man Wanted’ ‘Beer – A Necessity to the Strength of Britain’ ‘Victory is in the Kitchen’ ‘Women Versus the Submarine’ ‘Men of Hull, Get a Move On’ ... such stirring mess...

Thirty-eight of the finest florists working worldwide today, accompanied by hundreds of full-colour photographs of their inspirational arrangements and decorations Through the work of these exceptional designers, we see ideas for flowers for eve...

A celebration of the enormously popular Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator Piero Fornasetti established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own – a style based on illusionism, architectural perspe...

It was in interwar central Europe that photography as a modern art form was established. It fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary and Poland. It became a symbol of modernity for ...

From the renovation of ancient aqueducts in Rome to the computer-controlled jets that celebrated the dawn of the twenty-first century, Fountains, Splash and Spectacle traces the history of fountain design over the centuries and across nations, explor...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was one of the great figurative painters of the twentieth century. This book, newly available in paperback, provides a thorough account of the life and work of this complex and conflicted artist, whose paintings retain th...

One of the largest and most exciting segments of the graffiti world has been left largely unexplored until now. Freight Train Graffiti is the first comprehensive insight into a subset of the graffiti world that has become the focal point for many gra...

Based on The Metropolitan Museum’s renowned collection, French Art Deco presents more than eighty masterpieces by forty-two designers. Art Deco – the term conjures up jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels, glassware by Lalique, furniture by...

This book provides a guide to the history of Sevres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection. Published to accompany the exhibition opening at The Queen's Gallery, London.

French Style exudes that special quality, a rare blend of magic, elegance and sophistication that is the essence of the French 'art de vivre'. French Style captures the charm, vitality and elegance of contemporary French lifestyle as it is reflect...