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A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Here are over 250 of the museum's greatest treasures, presented in 366 lavish illustrations.
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Silk Brocades
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Yasodhara Agrawal, Yashodhara Agrawal (Photographer), Victoria & Albert Museum (Photographer)
A fascinating history of brocades from their origin in ancient China and India, their spread to other countries and the evolution of design and pattern.
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Pashmina
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National Museum (Photographer), Victoria & Albert Museum (Photographer), Anamika Pathak (Text by)
Presents an overview of pashima fabric: the royal patronage that nourished the industry, the techniques that went into the making of a pahmina shawl, and the slow subtle evolution of brilliant motifs.
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Impressions of the 20th century : fine art prints from the V&A collection
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Margaret Timmers
Drawing on the V and A's collection of 20th-century prints, this concise history of printmaking is presented through the work of internationally renowned artists - all of whom relished the print medium as an important form of expression. Every year of the 20th century is represented by a print o r set of prints. From the first half of the 20th ...
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V & A needlepoint collection
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Karen Elder, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style
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Mr. Michael Snodin (Editor), Carl Larsson, Victoria & Albert Museum
Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this is a comprehensive survey of the work of the Swedish artist Carl Larsson and his wife Karin, whose creative interiors, recorded by her husband in a series of watercolours, were the forerunners of the modern Scandinavian style. Carl Larsson (1853-1919) is now ...
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Japanese Textiles
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Anna Jackson, Victoria & Albert Museum
This volume presents highlights from the Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress. Ranging from sumptuous embroidered kimono and woven actor's robes to the indigo-dyed textiles of rural Japanhave been employed by Japanese textile artists in the production of woven, printed and embroidered textiles from the ...
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Dressed in Black
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Valerie Mendes, Victoria & Albert Museum
In this celebration of "the little black dress," the author provides a history of this essential women's garment, tracing its evolution since the 15th century. She also offers critiques and images of 59 dresses that were created by famous designers, including Calvin Klein, Mariano Fortuny, Balenciaga, and Azzedine Alaia.
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The School of Manners
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J Garretson, Albert Museum Victoria
This is a popular, small gift book that is contantly reprinted. Originally published in 1701, it is a version of the "Courtesy Book" of the Middle Ages. In describing how a contemporary boy should behave, this little volume gives an intimate aspect of late-17th-century daily life.
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Prospects, Thresholds and Interiors: Watercolours from the National Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Victoria & Albert Museum, Lewis Johnson
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of watercolours from The National Collection of Watercolours at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In a study of paintings spanning some two hundred years, Lewis Johnson explores the familiar and the unfamiliar in one of the most apparently tradition-governed practices of painting. Taking as his starting point ...
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Oriental Carpets and Their Structure: Highlights from the V&a Collection
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Jennifer Wearden, Victoria and Albert Museum
Oriental carpets have always been prized in the West as luxurious and beautiful objects, but understanding their structure is essential to fully appreciating them. This book showcases 100 superb examples from the Victoria and Albert Museum's outstanding collection, which represents all the major carpet-weaving traditions from China to Turkey and ...
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An introduction to wallpaper
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Jean Hamilton, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Catalogue of Romanesque sculpture
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Victoria and Albert Museum, Paul Williamson
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An introduction to illuminated manuscripts
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John Harthan, Victoria and Albert Museum
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English chairs.
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Drawings by Victor Hugo: Catalogue
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Pierre Georgel, Victoria and Albert Museum, Victor Hugo
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The Doulton story : a souvenir booklet produced originally for the exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 30 May-12 August 1979
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Paul Atterbury, Louise Irvine, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England: 16 May-30 September 1984, the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Art & design in Europe and America, 1800-1900
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The Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Victoria and Albert Museum, the making of the collection
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Anna Somers Cocks, Victoria and Albert Museum
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English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century
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Peter Ward-Jackson, Victoria and Albert Museum
This is a systematic survey of the great mass of 18th-century furniture designs which has been passed down to today. They are reproduced in more than 350 plates, arranged in such a way as to give a continuous picture of the furniture styles that flourished and declined in the course of the century.
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Wallpapers: An International History and Illustrated Survey from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Jean Hamilton, Victoria and Albert Museum, Charles C. Oman
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Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century: From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Clare Browne (Editor), Victoria & Albert Museum
The designs of 18th-century woven silk in England and France exemplified skills acquired over two millennia: in their range and quality, they have perhaps never been excelled. The artists who supplied their patterns were well known in their day but, by the 20th century, they had been completely forgotten. Yet through their work, and that of the ...
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Going to bed
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Eileen Harris, Victoria and Albert Museum
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