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Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior
Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design
Cartier
Screenprints (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Vanessa Bell: Modern Living
Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Calling the Shots (Victoria and Albert Museum): A Queer History of Photography
Fashion and the Floating World: Japanese ukiyo-e Prints
Jim's Spectacular Christmas
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
Digital Art (Victoria and Albert Museum): 1960s–Now
The Artist's Sketchbook (Victoria and Albert Museum): Inside the Creative Mind
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
Naomi: In Fashion - The Official V&A Exhibition Book
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection - The Official V&A Exhibition Book
Colour Mania (Victoria and Albert Museum): Photographing the World in Autochrome
Cameraless Photography
Maurice Broomfield: Industrial Sublime
Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things
Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
Julia Margaret Cameron – Arresting Beauty (Victoria and Albert Museum)
The Pleasure of Seeing: Conversations on Joel Meyerowitz's sixty years in the life of photography
As We See It: Artists Redefining Black Identity
Women Photograph: What We See: Women and nonbinary perspectives through the lens
Photographic Realism: The Art of Richard Billingham
#NoFilter: Get Creative with Photography
Photography: Two Centuries of History and Images
The History of Photography in 50 Cameras
An Alternative History of Photography
Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation
Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Renaissance Architecture
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power
Art of Renaissance Florence: A City and Its Legacy
Northern Renaissance Art
Victorian Bloomsbury
Soft City: Picador Classic
London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People
The Islamic World: A History in Objects
Islamic Art and Architecture
Tulips and Peacocks: William Morris and Art from the Islamic World
Jewels & Jewellery (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Total Design
The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900
National Service: Diary of a Decade at the National Theatre
The Empty Space
Stanislavski in Rehearsal
Indian Art
The Classical Tradition
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
Medieval Architecture
Victorian Bloomsbury
London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing
London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'
Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
Gardens in Art
William Morris’s Flowers (Victoria and Albert Museum)
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
Designing Costume for Stage and Screen
A History of the Theatre Costume Business: Creators of Character
Sumi-e: The Mindful Art of Japanese Ink Painting
London's 'Golden Mile': The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London c. 1500– C.1750
The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society
Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820
Medieval Art
Sybil and David Yurman: Artists and Jewelers
The New Romantic Garden
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook
Tulips and Peacocks: William Morris and Art from the Islamic World
David Bailey. Eighties
If Jewels Could Talk
Paul Smith
Chanel. The Allure of Makeup
Jewish Country Houses
Carla Sozzani: Art, Life, Fashion
Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
Blenheim: 300 Years of Life in a Palace
Solange: Jewllery For Chromantics
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain
Glam Rock: Dandies in the Underworld
The Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture
The Cast Courts
Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk
Kimono
Japanese Dress in Detail
The Tile Book: History • Pattern • Design
Islamic Art and Architecture
Jewels & Jewellery (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Dolls' Houses: From the V&A Museum of Childhood
Alice, Curiouser and Curiouser
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
William Morris (Victoria and Albert Museum)
V&A: The Twelve Days of Christmas
News from Nowhere
William Morris’s Flowers (Victoria and Albert Museum)
William Morris: Gift & Creative Paper Book
William Morris: An Arts & Crafts Colouring Book
On Art and Life
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey
William Morris Decor & Design (mini)
V&A Introduces: William Morris
William Morris 123
William Morris ABC
An Anthology of Decorated Papers: A Sourcebook for Designers
The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America
Kantha: Sustainable Textiles and Mindful Making
Mary Quant
Prada Catwalk: The Complete Collections
The Fashion Book
Modesty: A Fashion Paradox: Uncovering the causes, controversies and key players behind the global trend to conceal, rather than
The Trend Forecaster's Handbook: Second Edition
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designers A–Z. 2020 Edition
Conran/Quant: Swinging London - A Lifestyle Revolution
Zandra Rhodes: 50 Fabulous Years in Fashion
John Galliano: Unseen
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between
Louis Vuitton Catwalk: The Complete Fashion Collections
All About Yves
Chanel: The Karl Lagerfeld Campaigns
Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide
Embroidery (Victoria and Albert Museum): A Maker's Guide
Paper Crafts: A Maker's Guide
Calligraphy & Lettering: A Maker's Guide
Ultimate Knitting Bible: A Complete Reference with Step-by-Step Techniques
You Will Be Able to Knit by the End of This Book
Ultimate Crochet Bible: A Complete Reference with Step-by-Step Techniques
You Will Be Able to Crochet by the End of This Book
Sewing: Techniques for Beginners
Merchant & Mills Sewing Book
Elementary Sewing Skills: Do it Once, Do it Well
Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More
Make & Mend: The Japanese Art of Sashiko Embroidery-15 Beautiful Visible Mending Projects
Darning: Repair Make Mend
Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse The Clothes You Love
Just Us: An American Conversation
Intimations: Six Essays
Radical Attention
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
We Should All Be Feminists
It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
A Nazi Word For A Nazi Thing
Superior: The Return of Race Science
The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride – 30 Years of Gay Britain
Why Do We Wear Clothes? William Morris ABC Hello Design!
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Books for the Little Ones in Your Life

Green on Green
Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring
Why Do We Wear Clothes?
Bauhaus Ballet
Penguin In Peril
We're All Works of Art
Seasons
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
My Collection of Collections
Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau
Young Frank, Architect
This Is New York
Colour
Who Built That? Skyscrapers
Vivaldi
V&A Introduces: Queen Victoria
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
Victoria: A Life
My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals
Creating the V&A: Victoria and Albert's Museum (1851–1861)
The Great Exhibition in Colour
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire
The Victorians
After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew
The Covent Garden Ladies: the book that inspired BBC2’s ‘Harlots’
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Crystal Palace
The Crimson Petal And The White
Hallyu!: The Korean Wave
Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
From South Korea
A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction
The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art
Korean Art from the 19th Century to the Present
The Korean Skincare Bible: The Ultimate Guide to K-beauty
The Korean Lifestyle Book: How to Bring K-Culture into your Everyday Life, Home and Style
Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-Style
Bojagi - Korean Textile Art: technique, design and inspiration
ANJU & BANJU: Korean Tapas/Seoul Mum's Recipes
Judy Joo's Korean Soul Food
Bong Joon-ho: Dissident Cinema
The Picture Bride
Donatello: Sculpting The Renaissance
Donatello: In Tuscany: Itineraries
From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria: 1450-1600: 150 Years of Sculpture in the Republic of Venice
Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
The Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture
The Renaissance Complete
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
The Hidden Language of Symbols
A New History of Italian Renaissance Art
The Renaissance Cities: Art in Florence, Rome and Venice
The Ugly Renaissance
Northern Renaissance Art
Fra Angelico and the rise of the Florentine Renaissance
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Africa Fashion
Things Fall Apart
Africa: The Fashion Continent
African Apparel: Threaded Transformations Across the 20th Century
African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
Connecting Afro Futures: Fashion x Hair x Design
Palette: A Black Beauty Bible
Black Skin: The Definitive Skincare Guide
Good Hair: The Essential Guide to Afro, Textured and Curly Hair
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism
Africa Rising: Fashion, Lifestyle and Design from Africa
Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices
Afrotopia
The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored
ABC of Men's Fashion
Classic Tailoring Techniques for Menswear: A Construction Guide
The Men's Fashion Book
The Suit: Form, Function and Style
Is Masculinity Toxic?: A primer for the 21st century
17th-Century Men's Dress Patterns 1600 - 1630
How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men’s Fashion from the 17th to the 20th Century
Drag: The Complete Story
Tom of Finland: Made in Germany
Rebels: From Punk to Dior
Androgyne: Fashion and Gender
Beatrix Potter
The Story of Beatrix Potter: Her Enchanting Work and Surprising Life
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
V&A Introduces: Beatrix Potter
The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations
Night Night Peter Rabbit: Cloth Book
Peter Rabbit Tales: Little Library
Peter Rabbit: I Love You
Where is Peter Rabbit?: Lift the Flap Book
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Picture Book
The Further Tales of Peter Rabbit Collection
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
Every Day Nature: How Noticing Nature Can Quietly Change Your Life
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher: The original and authorized edition
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck: The original and authorized edition