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Beddard Honor: Digital Pioneers

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is the world’s greatest museum of art and design, with a vast collection that been an unparalleled resource for designers for 150 years. This new series of pattern books presents the range of the V&A’s superb collections. Beautifully designed, accessible, and informative, these little books are a repository of ideas and inspiration for designers of all…

Dior Christian: Кристиан Диор о самом себе (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 178) Аннотация: Christian Dior rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the 'New Look' took the world by storm. This charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment. It is also a unique portrait of the classic Paris haute couture of the 1950s and offers a…

Hildyard Robin: English Pottery: 1620 — 1840

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This new, beautifully illustrated study is the first to give a broad picture of the pottery trade in the 17th to 19th centuries, covering all the main types of ware. It provides an overview of how trade influenced production and explores themes such as fashions for collecting and the export market. English Pottery sets out to fill the gap between the literature increasingly preoccupied with…

Snodin Michael: The V&A Book of Western Ornament

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Ornament has been central to Western culture for thousands of years, and surrounds us every day, whether on buildings, clothes and accessories, cars or corporate products. Behind this desire to decorate lies a need to give meaning to the things we make and live with: to make them distinctive and give them added value.»The V&A Book of Western Ornament» tells the story of European ornament from…

Spitalfields Silks

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Spitalfields Silks displays delightful floral designs alongside quirky, stikingly modern silks, all produced in eighteenth-century London.

Eleri Lynn: Underwear, Fashion in Detail

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps and girdles to garters, Underwear: Fashion in Detail gets up close and personal with some of the most intimate items in the V&A. Lynn traces the evolution of underwear, drawing on 120 objects that include rare examples dating from the sixteenth century, the exaggerated shapes of eighteenth-century court dress, Dior's curvaceous 'New Look' and…

Christopher Breward: British Asian Style: Fashion and Textiles, Past and Present

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: South Asian textiles have shaped British fashion and dress for centuries, from the fashionable chintzes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the silk and paisley Boteh patterns of the nineteenth century, to the orientalism of 1960s bohemian fashion. British Asian Style looks at the on-going importance of South Asian textiles to British culture and fashion, as styles move into the…

Anna Jackson: Kimono (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Following the success of the previous titles in the «V&A Pattern» series, these four books reveal the Victoria and Albert Museum's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Available separately — as well as in a collectors' slipcase edition — this season's titles are «Kimonos», «Novelty Patterns», «Owen Jones» and «Secret Garden».

Arnold Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Patterns of Fashion 2 focuses on the eighty-year period preceding the Second World War. Beginning with a day dress from c. 1861-3 from the London Museum and ending with a 1938 Evening dress from the V&A costume historian and researcher Janet Arnold traces period and style and draws up patters from the original garments on grid paper with construction instructions. This is introduced by excerpts…

Novelty Patterns (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. This limited edition collector's slipcase contains Garden Florals, Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns and Kimono.

Maxwell Christopher: French Porcelain: Of the Eighteenth Century

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Throughout the eighteenth century, France was a place of intense scientific enquiry and innovative research and one of the most exciting discoveries of the period was the successful manufacture of porcelain. Known as 'white gold', porcelain was produced for use in all aspects of fashionable public and private life; from banquets to boudoirs, from tea drinking to the toilette. Of all the factories…

Jane Pritchard: Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes, 1909-1929

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was an extraordinarily gifted impresario, curator, director and animator of the arts. This book looks at his life, his work, his cultural milieu, and the actual processes of creating a ballet while working with some of the foremost creative thinkers of the period.

Svetlana A. Amelekhina: Magnificence of the Tsars: Ceremonial Men's Dress of the Russian Imperial Court 1721-1917

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The grandeur of Imperial Russia is captured in this spectacular book featuring the dress and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian court. Starting in the 1730s with lavishly embroidered coats and elaborately patterned silk banyans from the wardrobe of Tsar Peter II and spanning a period of almost two centuries, these garments document a unique dialogue between military uniform, court…

Alwyn W. Turner: My Generation: The Glory Years of Rock

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: On New Year's Day 1964, the first edition of «Top of the Pops» was broadcast on the BBC. The timing was perfect, British rock and roll had just entered its greatest period — the Beatles were occupying the top five positions in the American singles charts, and their international success was followed by the Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark Five, who were both featured on that first programme.…

Linda Parry: British Textiles: 1700 to the Present

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: This superb book draws on highlights from the V&A's fabulous collections of woven, printed and embroidered textiles and their designs. Based on the V&A's British Textiles series, and with a new introduction by Linda Parry, this comprehensive compendium brings together a visual history of British fabrics with over 1000 images. They show the amazing creative abilities of professional and amateur…

Mendes Valerie D.: Lucile Ltd: London, Paris, New York and Chicago: 1890s-1930s

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Mrs Lucy Wallace, Lady Duff Gordon as she became, transformed her business from a modest home-based dressmakers into the leading international fashion enterprise, Lucile Limited, with salons in London, Paris, New York and Chicago and her work was ranked alongside Jacques Doucet and Paul Poiret by the fashion media. Her lavish and alluring fashions attracted a prestigious and famous bevy of…

Wilk Christopher: Modernism: Designing a New World

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: This comprehensive, international examination of the Modernist movement across all the arts is now available in paperback. Between 1914 and 1939, Modernism flourished through the work of creative visionaries who believed in the transformative power of art on society and its ability to shape a better world. The first book of its kind, Modernism: Designing a New World approaches one of the most…

Phillips Clare: Jewels and Jewellery

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This gem of a book, now available in an updated paperback edition, sparkles with diamonds, rubies, and exceptional examples of the jeweler’s art. Featured are exquisite early medieval pieces and superb examples of jewelry design from the renaissance and Art Nouveau periods to twentieth-century treasures and right up to the present. Outstanding photographs illustrate not only rare precious stones…

Baker Malcolm: Figured in Marble

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This work provides a study of 18th-century British sculpture, illustrated with sculptures from both the V&A and the J. Paul Getty Museum, and also pieces from private collections and churches. Topics include: writing sculptural histories; design, making and materials; and categories and genres.

Pierson Stacey: Chinese Ceramics: A Design History

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Chinese ceramics are among the most widely admired and collected in the world. From elegant Song celadons to decorative Ming vases and colourful Qing famille rose, ceramics produced in China have influenced taste and daily life globally. This new design history draws on the V&A's comprehensive collection to look at the production, consumption, aesthetics and transfer of Chinese ceramics. Stunning…