THAMES & HUDSON

Luke Hughes & Companys enduring and meticulously engineered furniture, an eloquent response both to the architecture it inhabits and to the true Arts and Crafts spirit, has been placed at ...

As a little boy of seven or eight, Jacques Henri Lartigue was given his first camera, and soon was developing his own photographs. Born into a prosperous family, from childhood ...

This volume is published on the occasion of the opening of the National Museum of Qatar in the states capital, Doha. It explores and celebrates architect Jean Nouvels innovative design ...

The official book that accompanies the blockbuster exhibition in Ghent Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge and unparalleled powers ...

The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted city, Rome, and for his extraordinary flights of ...

This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a ...

Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the materialof choice in landmark contemporary houses across Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan,Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA, from the hands of ...

Throughout his entire career, from his debut in the 1860s up to his final works post 1900, the Opera formed the focal point of Degass output. It was his own ...

From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-afterhomes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable inAustralia. Led by the likes of Robin ...

Joe Zucker has flown under the radar of larger public awareness due to the frequent transformations in his art from one style to another, and thus his work has not ...

Since taking their first steps on this planet, humans have changed the environment around them. Anthropocene: A New Introduction to World Prehistory tells the comprehensive story of human prehistory through ...

The most famous embroidery house in the world, Maison Lesage has collaborated with the greatest names in the history of fashion, from Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Christian ...

As many architects turn to Australia for inspiration, Sean Godsell - a pioneer of Australian minimalism - has established himself as an important influencer on the global architecture scene. This ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to China in December 1948 at the request of Life magazine. He stayed for ten months and captured some of the most spectacular moments in the countrys ...

Hernán Díaz Alonso is one of the most influential and innovative architects working today. Director of one of the leading architecture schools in the USA, his visionary schemes span all ...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) is best known today for his paintings of peasant life, yet it was through his exceptional graphic work that he achieved widespread fame during his ...

A Chronology of Architecture presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between structural innovations, social changes, and ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was a prolific master of landscape and marine painting in nineteenth-century Britain. His attention to color and atmosphere produced breathtaking images of nature, now immortalized ...

Józef Czapski (1896-1993) witnessed the tumult of 20th-century Europe firsthand, as a military officer, art and literary critic, disciplined chronicler of his own experiences, and above all, as a painter ...

Catalog of the Exhibition of The National Portrait Gallery. 170 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, explores the overlooked contribution of ...