Mini Architects
55.00 ₾Mini Architects by Thames & Hudson — an introduction to the built environment and the people who design it for young readers, presenting the great buildings of the world through clear text and beautiful illustration. The ideal introduction to architecture for children — inspiring the next generation to look up, look around, and think about the buildings that shape their world. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Magnum Magnum
500.00 ₾Magnum Magnum (Thames & Hudson) — the greatest photographs from the complete Magnum archive, selected by the agency’s own photographers — each choosing the image by a colleague they most admire. A portrait of the world’s most important photographic agency as a community of peers: diverse in style and subject, united by a commitment to the photograph as a vehicle for truth. One of the great photography books. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Daido Moriyama: Complete Works
280.00 ₾Daido Moriyama: Complete Works (Thames & Hudson) — the most comprehensive survey of Moriyama’s fifty-year engagement with Tokyo: grainy, high-contrast, restlessly mobile images that capture the city as a permanent present tense, a flux to be inhabited rather than a space to be composed. One of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, in the definitive Thames & Hudson monograph. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Magnum America
500.00 ₾Magnum America (Thames & Hudson) — the Magnum Photos agency’s complete American archive: the definitive visual history of America through the eyes of the world’s greatest photographers, from the agency’s founding in 1947 to the present. A monumental achievement — the most comprehensive photographic document of American life available, and essential for anyone who cares about photography or the United States. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections
300.00 ₾Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections by Alexander Fury (Thames & Hudson) — every Dior collection under all seven creative directors, from Christian Dior’s founding vision through the extraordinary fifteen years of John Galliano, Raf Simons’s sculptural restraint, and Maria Grazia Chiuri’s feminist reinterpretation. The most comprehensive Dior photographic record ever assembled — the definitive reference for collectors and fashion historians. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Woody Allen: A Retrospective
180.00 ₾Woody Allen: A Retrospective by Tom Shone (Thames & Hudson) — the complete Allen career from 1969 to the present, with exceptional visual material and serious critical analysis of a body of work that ranges from early slapstick comedy through Annie Hall and Manhattan to the European films and the late crime dramas. Allen as writer, director, and performer, in the context of the American and European cinematic traditions that shaped him. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Queen of Arts: A History of Women in Art
75.00 ₾Queen of Arts: A History of Women in Art by Flavia Frigeri (Thames & Hudson) — the complete tradition of women’s art from antiquity to the present: the medieval illuminators and Renaissance painters, the Impressionists and Surrealists, the Abstract Expressionists and the feminist artists of the 1970s, and the global diversity of contemporary women artists now receiving the recognition they deserve. An essential art history — comprehensive, authoritative, and long overdue. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Spielberg: A Retrospective
150.00 ₾Spielberg: A Retrospective by Richard Schickel (Thames & Hudson) — the complete Spielberg career presented with exceptional visual material and the critical depth it deserves: from Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark through E.T. and Jurassic Park to Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and Lincoln. The most commercially successful and most diverse career in American cinema — analysed with the seriousness it has not always received. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Retro Watches: The Collector’s Guide to Vintage Timepieces
100.00 ₾Retro Watches: The Collector’s Guide to Vintage Timepieces by John Goldberger (Thames & Hudson) — the essential collector’s reference for vintage mechanical watches from Rolex, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet, and others. Technical detail, provenance information, and investment guidance for the instruments of precision engineering and aesthetic ambition that digital timekeeping has failed to displace. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms
80.00 ₾Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms by Mark Haworth-Booth (Thames & Hudson) — the technical and aesthetic vocabulary of photography presented with clear definitions and visual examples drawn from the history of the medium. Originally produced in collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute. Essential for photography students, collectors, and anyone who wants to engage more precisely with what they see and what they make. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Warehouse Home: Industrial Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century Living
150.00 ₾Warehouse Home: Industrial Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century Living by Sophie Bush (Thames & Hudson) — the most beautiful warehouse conversions and industrial homes from around the world, presenting the creative decisions that transform raw concrete, exposed steel, and industrial skylights into intimate domestic environments. The definitive guide to an aesthetic that expresses values of authenticity and materiality that resonate deeply with contemporary sensibility. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Retro Cameras: The Collector’s Guide to Vintage Film Photography
100.00 ₾Retro Cameras: The Collector’s Guide to Vintage Film Photography by John Wade (Thames & Hudson) — the essential reference for collectors of vintage film cameras and photographers drawn to the grain, colour, and tonal range of film-era photography. Every major manufacturer and significant model covered with technical detail, provenance information, and the engineering intelligence of mid-twentieth-century precision instruments that digital photography has not fully replaced. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Design: The Whole Story
200.00 ₾Design: The Whole Story (Thames & Hudson) — the complete history of design from the crafts of antiquity through the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, postwar industrial design, graphic design, corporate identity, digital interfaces, and the sustainability imperative of the contemporary moment. Over five hundred objects and projects profiled — the most comprehensive design history available in a single volume, with Thames & Hudson’s characteristic visual richness. Published by Thames & Hudson.
All About Saul Leiter
110.00 ₾All About Saul Leiter (Thames & Hudson) — the comprehensive monograph presenting the complete vision of Saul Leiter, one of the great pioneers of colour photography: the paintings, the photographs of New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and the life of an artist who refused celebrity with the same completeness with which he pursued beauty. Many of these images were unseen for decades because Leiter, characteristically, never pushed them. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Japanese Myths
75.00 ₾The Japanese Myths by Joshua Frydman (Thames & Hudson) — one of the world’s great mythological traditions presented in its complete form: the creation of the islands from the cosmic ocean, the storm god Susanoo and the sun goddess Amaterasu, the descent into the underworld, the founding of the imperial dynasty. As rich, as strange, and as philosophically serious as the Greek or Norse myths — and significantly less familiar to Western readers. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Quentin Blake Book of Nonsense Verse
180.00 ₾The Quentin Blake Book of Nonsense Verse by Quentin Blake (Thames & Hudson) — original nonsense poems by one of the world’s most beloved illustrators alongside selected classics from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, illustrated throughout with Blake’s characteristic wobbly lines and exuberant colour — the graphic style that captures movement and emotion with a speed and accuracy that more laborious techniques cannot match. A joyful gift for readers of any age. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Robert Capa: In the Making
200.00 ₾Robert Capa: In the Making by Cynthia Young (Thames & Hudson) — the complete arc of Robert Capa’s career presented with exceptional archival photography and the contextual depth that the work demands. From the falling soldier of the Spanish Civil War through the Normandy beach landings to his death on a landmine in Vietnam in 1954 — the greatest war photographer of the twentieth century, and the most debated. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Almodóvar: A Retrospective
200.00 ₾Almodóvar: A Retrospective by Frédéric Strauss (Thames & Hudson) — the most comprehensive account of Pedro Almodóvar’s extraordinary filmmaking career available in English, with exceptional visual material and extended analysis of the films that have made him the most important European filmmaker of the past four decades. Women on the Verge, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver — each a complete world. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Vivienne Westwood
250.00 ₾Vivienne Westwood by Claire Wilcox (Thames & Hudson) — the authoritative monograph by the curator of the major V&A retrospective, presenting the complete Westwood career with the scholarly depth it deserves: from the punk origins through four decades of politically engaged fashion that simultaneously revived eighteenth-century tailoring traditions and challenged every fashion convention. The most important British fashion designer of the twentieth century. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Sheer: Yves Saint Laurent
180.00 ₾Sheer: Yves Saint Laurent (Thames & Hudson) — an art history of one of YSL’s most philosophically interesting techniques: his use of transparency, deploying sheer fabrics, lace, chiffon, and organza to create garments that both clothed and revealed, in which the boundary between covering and uncovering became the formal subject of the work. Exceptional photography traces this thread through forty years of collections. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Harry Gruyaert: Morocco
220.00 ₾Harry Gruyaert: Morocco (Thames & Hudson) — Gruyaert’s definitive Morocco collection, gathering work from across five decades of photographing a country whose chromatic intensity has drawn him back repeatedly. The terracotta and cobalt and saffron of Marrakech, the silver Atlantic light of Essaouira — the full range of Moroccan visual experience captured by one of the great colour photographers. Large-format, rich, and completely absorbing. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
200.00 ₾The Mysterious Fayum Portraits by Euphrosyne Doxiadis (Thames & Hudson) — the most complete presentation available of the extraordinary Roman-Egyptian portrait paintings produced in the Fayum oasis between 100 BCE and 300 CE: real people, individually seen, painted with an intimacy and a skill that bridges two thousand years and addresses the viewer directly, person to person. Essential for anyone interested in ancient art, portraiture, or the relationship between painting and mortality. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Architecture Concept Book
200.00 ₾The Architecture Concept Book by James Tait (Thames & Hudson) — fifty of the most important concepts in architectural thinking, from classical notions of order and proportion through the Modernist revolution to contemporary debates about parametric design and sustainability, presented with the visual richness and the scholarly depth that Thames & Hudson brings to its major reference volumes. An essential intellectual companion for architecture students. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Korean Myths
75.00 ₾The Korean Myths by Heinz Insu Fenkl (Thames & Hudson) — one of the world’s least known and most extraordinary mythological traditions, presented in the most complete and most readable English translation available. Creation myths of dazzling strangeness. Gods in the spaces between heaven and earth. Shamanic rituals persisting from prehistoric times into the contemporary city. Essential for anyone interested in world mythology or Korean culture. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Daido Moriyama: Record
280.00 ₾Daido Moriyama: Record (Thames & Hudson) — essential work from one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, whose grainy, high-contrast images of Tokyo across fifty years constitute a sustained meditation on urban life that has no equivalent in the history of photography. Moriyama captures the city as a permanent present tense — a flux to be inhabited rather than a space to be composed. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Italy: In the Footsteps of the Masters
280.00 ₾Italy: In the Footsteps of the Masters by Stefano Zuffi (Thames & Hudson) — a visual journey through the landscapes, cities, and buildings that shaped Western art, pairing each location with the works it inspired: Raphael in Urbino, Caravaggio in Rome, Titian in Venice. Travel photography of exceptional quality combined with art historical depth — the ideal companion for anyone who has been to Italy or plans to go. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Inside Pompeii: A First-Ever Complete Tour
400.00 ₾Inside Pompeii: A First-Ever Complete Tour by Peter Connolly (Thames & Hudson) — the first complete visual tour of the entire city frozen at the moment of its destruction in 79 CE, produced in collaboration with the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Every district, every major building, every street — the most comprehensive visual record of Pompeii ever published, and the definitive account of how the city was built, how it functioned, and how its people lived. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Mountaineering Women
170.00 ₾Mountaineering Women by Rebecca A. Brown (Thames & Hudson) — the stories of the women who built the tradition of female high-altitude climbing, from the early alpinists of the Victorian era through the Himalayan pioneers of the twentieth century to contemporary athletes competing for first ascents alongside men. A long-overdue celebration of a tradition consistently underrecorded — rigorous, inspiring, and beautifully illustrated. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion
200.00 ₾Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion by Cassie Davies-Strodder (Thames & Hudson) — a visual history of the designer whom Chanel called the only true couturier and Dior called the master of us all. Cristóbal Balenciaga’s technical mastery of construction, material, and silhouette was so complete that his peers regarded themselves as craftspeople by comparison — and his 1951 and 1967 collections each changed the shape of fashion. The essential Balenciaga reference. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Citrus: A World of Zest
180.00 ₾Citrus: A World of Zest (Thames & Hudson) — the complete world of citrus cooking, from the history and botany of lemons, oranges, grapefruits, bergamots, kumquats, blood oranges, finger limes, and yuzu through the full range of savoury and sweet applications in traditions from Moroccan to Japanese, Sicilian to Mexican. Exceptional photography and recipes drawn from a global culinary tradition. An essential resource for serious cooks. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Sport Banger: The Art of Dressing Like You Don’t Care
200.00 ₾Sport Banger: The Art of Dressing Like You Don’t Care by Jamie Clifton (Thames & Hudson) — a genuine cultural history of the aesthetic that communicates identity through apparent indifference: the tracksuit with designer trainers, the football shirt with tailored trousers, the sports brand logo as the most eloquent fashion statement available. Traces Sport Banger from its emergence in British street culture through its adoption by musicians, artists, and the fashion industry. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary
190.00 ₾Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary (Thames & Hudson) — the complete visual history of the album that sold forty-five million copies and became one of the most analysed and most loved works of art ever recorded, gathered in a format that gives the photographs, artwork, live performance images, and archive memorabilia the scale they deserve. The essential Pink Floyd reference for any serious fan of one of rock music’s defining achievements. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Art of Climbing: 50 Classic Peaks
180.00 ₾The Art of Climbing: 50 Classic Peaks by Dan McMorran (Thames & Hudson) — fifty classic peaks presented through the photography and writing of those who have climbed them, from Mont Blanc and the Eiger through K2 and Annapurna to the granite spires of Patagonia. Both a practical reference for the serious climber and a visual celebration of mountaineering’s extraordinary tradition — capturing the beauty and the danger of the high peaks with equal force. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now
250.00 ₾Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now (Thames & Hudson) — the complete retrospective of the world’s most visited living artist, from her childhood in wartime Japan through her years as an outsider in New York’s art world, her period of institutionalisation in Tokyo, and the global fame of the Infinity Mirror Rooms. The most comprehensive account of one of the most extraordinary artistic careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Jean Paul Gaultier Catwalk: The Complete Collections
300.00 ₾Jean Paul Gaultier Catwalk: The Complete Collections (Thames & Hudson) — every Gaultier collection from 1976 to 2020, with commentary by Gaultier himself, documenting one of fashion’s most distinctive and most socially engaged visions: the male corset, the sailor suit, Madonna’s conical bra, the skirt for men — each collection a complete artistic statement designed to challenge and delight simultaneously. The most comprehensive Gaultier reference available. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Harry Gruyaert: Between East and West
180.00 ₾Harry Gruyaert: Between East and West (Thames & Hudson) — a career-spanning collection from one of the great European photographers, a master of colour who spent decades photographing the points of contact between Eastern and Western visual cultures in Morocco, India, Egypt, and the Soviet Union. Gruyaert helped define the possibilities of colour photography in an era when most serious photographers still worked in black and white. Published by Thames & Hudson.
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