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This beautifully illustrated book celebrates some of the best-loved dolls' houses from the V&A Museum of Childhood. Published to accompany a new exhibition, Dolls' Houses presents specially commissioned photography detaling the astonishing skill and craftsmanship required to create these homes in miniature scale.

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Would you like to look younger, prettier, slimmer Would you like to attract a new man, hold on to the current one Would you like to get a better job, earn more money Would you like your husband to move up the ladder of success, attract more friends This book offers fashion advice from the 1960s.

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The V&A has the world's most important collection of nineteenth-century temple hangings from South India, but only one of the smaller pieces has ever been published. For the first time these amazing objects have been documented and made public.

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Over 80 years ago, Heather Firbank packed away her extensive collection of fine clothes, bought from London's very best dressmakers and tailors.These treasures lay undiscovered for the next 30 years, until after her death, they were given to the V&A, laying the foundations for the Museum's world-famous collection.

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The most complete book to date on Mariano Fortuny (1871 - 1949) - painter, etcher, photographer, set designer, reformer of theatrical stage lighting, inventor and designer of furniture and fashion.

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With contributions from Placido Domingo, Sir Antonio Pappano and Simone Young, a stellar cast of authors look beyond the many stereotypes associated with opera to examine how, like all the great narrative arts, it draws on essential human experiences to create a form that can be endlessly reinvented to reflect a constantly changing society.

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This book tells story behind one of the world's most spectacular collections of Iranian art, from ceramics to textiles, woodwork and stunning Persian architectural drawings.

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Published to accompany the V&A's major summer exhibition, Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, celebrates 50 years of one of the greatest bands of all time.

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Many of the most beautiful Renaissance portraits, botanical illustrations and landscape paintings are watercolours. Spanning the period 1450-1640, this book considers these diverse artworks together for the first time bringing together 150 paintings by masters including Vinci, Durer, Holbein, Hilliard and Van Dyck.

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With specially commissioned photographs of representative pieces, personally selected by Batterham, and contributions from a group of writers with a deep understanding of his work and its broader significance, this book is an important monograph of the renowned studio potter.

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In this gorgeous style guide from the 1950s, American fashion designer Anne Fogarty reveals the secrets of 'wife-dressing' - the art of looking chic on all occasions, be it at a cocktail party, on the tennis pitch or in the boudoir.

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From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps and girdles to garters, Underwear: Fashion in Detail gets up close to some of the most intimate items in the V&A.

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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. Heal's showcases the mid-twentieth century fabrics of this retail institution as commissioned by director and visionary Tom Worthington.

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V&A Pattern: Indian Florals provides a dazzling introduction to the vibrant designs of the Indian subcontinent

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V&A Pattern: Kimono showcases the staggering breadth of textile designs associated with Japan's most iconic garment

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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. Novelty Patterns showcases the innovative and fanciful decoration employed for lightweight fabrics made between the early 1920s and the late 1940s.

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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. The Fifties showcases the work of some of the most dynamic artists, designers and manufacturers of the 1950s from the V&A's textile and wallpaper collections.

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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. Owen Jones features the breadth of the Victorian designer's work, from his passion for Islamic decoration to his influential work, The Grammar of Ornament, first published in 1856.