Decorative arts

The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern designElla Briggs (18801977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic.

Der Band untersucht dynamische Konfigurationen, die in der Interaktion von menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Körpern, von Materialitäten und Technologien entstehen und fragt nach Konzepten, die deren gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten jenseits von Reifizierung und Naturalisierung denken.

In this in-depth study, author Gaoheng Zhang analyses the relationship between the Italian ready-to-wear fashion industry and the Chinese fast fashion industry, focussing on the 2000s and 2010s.

Kaum ein kulturwissenschaftliches Thema wurde im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert umfassender untersucht als die Gabe.

By adopting a theoretical approach rooted in the anthropological study of agrarian communities, this book investigates the reach and impact of Roman civilisation while considering the limitations of pre-industrial communication and social organisation.

This collection of essays expands upon an emerging topic within and beyond the field of communication studies that challenges students and scholars of the built environment to peer beyond the somewhat typical collection of monuments, museums, and memories often found in essays related to space and place, to consider the role of ruins as lenses upon modernity.

This collection of essays expands upon an emerging topic within and beyond the field of communication studies that challenges students and scholars of the built environment to peer beyond the somewhat typical collection of monuments, museums, and memories often found in essays related to space and place, to consider the role of ruins as lenses upon modernity.

By adopting a theoretical approach rooted in the anthropological study of agrarian communities, this book investigates the reach and impact of Roman civilisation while considering the limitations of pre-industrial communication and social organisation.

This title was originally published in 1969.

Here is the most complete text and general collection of illustrations of Northwest Coast Indian art written in the last twenty years.

Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other.

This title was originally published in 1969.

Weltweit sind Rechtspopulisten auf dem Vormarsch.

Here is the most complete text and general collection of illustrations of Northwest Coast Indian art written in the last twenty years.

This title was originally published in 1976.

This title was originally published in 1976.

Growing Down explores the theological and psychological implications of humanity's fascination with technology.

With 17 step-by-step projects, discover the art of paper quilling based around the four seasons.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.

Der Tod des eigenen Kindes ist das Schlimmste, das einem Menschen passieren kann.

Erst seit Kurzem sind Stephane Mallarmes Gedichte zu Anlassen und Gelegenheiten aller Art erstmals vollstandig ins Deutsche ubersetzt.

Asynchronicity is a study of the information stress and its genesis in the accelerative dynamics of computation and automation.

The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors.

Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.