Книги видавництва Thames & Hudson

Home of haute couture and the world’s leading fashion houses, Paris and its inhabitants represent sophistication and refinement to the rest of the world. In the city’s elegant neighborhoods, debonair Parisian men continue to participate i...

Virtually every Pre-Raphaelite painting is discussed in detail and illustrated here, including works by the best known - Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Millais - and the movement’s many minor talents.

Vintage handkerchiefs have been an unsung source of inspiration for many of the world’s most exciting brands. This volume written by vintage clothing and textiles experts, will appeal to collectors of printed textiles, fashion lovers and design...

On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London’s Oxford Street. In the intervening fifty years the Stones have performed live in front of more people than any band … ever. They’ve played the...

The Scottish Country House will enthral anyone with an interest in Scotland, history, architecture or interior decoration – all wrapped in a compelling narrative of past lives and taste. These ten extraordinary houses and castles have all su...

Organized by time and by style, this ravishing book, uniquely illustrated with photographs of actual period shoes, takes us on a remarkable tour of the shoe closets of the world over the last four hundred years. Exploring how historical events and so...

Twenty-eight leading architects, engineers and architectural historians explore and explain the modern world’s greatest structures, charting the progress of human ingenuity and creativity in erecting buildings, from AD 500 to the present day. ...

This is the most comprehensive and inspirational volume ever published on the extraordinary world of shells, including a worldwide directory of shell collections and grottos and a photographic glossary of shells Shells have been put to an amazing ...

Interior design has undergone a quiet but profound revolution in the last decade, as home-owners have become more aware of international influences and more prepared to experiment, to break out of the prescribed moulds of style. Many different parts ...

The definitive retrospective on the Bauhaus, the 20th century’s greatest art school ‘Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!’ declared the architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded as a...

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 ...

John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman – some of the names that brought jazz out of the age of bebop and into the present. As the medium matured in the Forties, Fifties and Sixties, an intense flowering of new styles spa...

On 3 July 1954 Elvis Presley entered a recording studio in Memphis Tennessee, and rock and roll was born. Springing from its roots in the gospel and blues of the American South, rock became a huge business, a global culture, and the stirring voice of...

A new edition of this essential overview of the most exciting, dynamic form of photography The Street Photographer’s Manual celebrates the spirit of street photography with inspiring instruction to help you capture the perfect urban moment. ...

The Russian imperial residence of Tsarskoye Selo – the ‘Tsar’s Village’ – is now more than three hundred years old. It was once a modest estate housing a summer residence for Catherine I, second wife of Peter the Great. ...