From the glory days of big hair, big shoulder pads and ostentatious wealth - or at least the illusion of it - comes Michael Doster:

Interpretations and practices surrounding women’s dress in Islamic contexts vary widely across regions and are shaped by cultural traditions as well as individual stylistic choices.

A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name,

Die Nagastämme bewohnen die südöstlichen Ausläufer des Himalaya im Grenzgebiet zwischen Indien und Myanmar (ehemals Burma).

Since the early 17th century, Europe and Persia have had a close association; Persia became the longed-for destination of many travellers, craftsmen,

This richly illustrated publication documents approximately 250 inrō from the Anna and Christian Trumpf Collection.

This publication presents a comprehensive introduction to the Japanese inrō, small multi-compartment lacquer cases traditionally worn at

This publication examines the aesthetic and conceptual relationship between Moroccan carpet traditions and the development of modern art

The first publication of the Barnes Foundation’s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for

One of the world’s most important collections of twentieth-century design—the Stewart Collection in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010.

This publication provides a systematic survey of European furniture production in the nineteenth century, a period characterised by profound transformations in aesthetics,

The carpets and tapestries with riveting yet puzzling designs have been preserved in closed treasure houses in the former Japanese capital since

This publication presents the Youngman Collection of Chinese jades within an art-historical and archaeological framework,

This publication situates Khmer gold artefacts within the broader art-historical development of mainland Southeast Asia, focusing on their formal,

This publication will be the only available English-language monograph to date on sixteenth-century sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi

This volume, on a unique and wide-ranging collection of figural sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa, examines not only each distinctive piece,

Crystallising superstition and belief, serving as an emblem of prestige or glory, and at times functioning as an instrument of seduction,

The Whole Story offers a large-scale, chronologically structured survey of dress and fashion from antiquity to the present,

The book examines the work of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada through a comparative analysis of their design approaches,

The publication assembles a large corpus of found photographic images depicting so-called “dummy” figures used in advertising