The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. Our collection of over two million works provides almost infinite sources of inspiration for artists, designers and makers worldwide. V&A Publishing aims to share this resource with the widest possible audience.
Our core programme of exhibition, research and collections publishing is represented alongside our rich backlist by Abrams & Chronicle Books and Bloomsbury Australia. We collaborate with Penguin Random House Children’s UK on a range of bespoke titles that take children on a creative adventure through our archives, and with renowned art publisher Thames & Hudson to deliver outstanding books for adults that explore the V&A’s art and design collections.
All profits from V&A Publishing help us to enrich people’s imaginations through the funding of future exhibitions, research and collecting.
Distribution and Contacts
Exhibition Programmes
Design and Disability: A Radical Manifesto for Living
Marie Antoinette Style
David Bowie Is
Dior by Dior : The Autobiography of Christian Dior
Cats: 50 Postcards
Micro & Other Mosaics – from Antiquity to the Modern Age
Published in 2024
V&A Backlist
Postcard Sets
E-books
Distribution and Contacts
UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA, INDIA and LATIN AMERICA
DISTRIBUTION
All orders supplied via Macmillan Distribution Ltd (MDL), Swansea SALES
Abrams & Chronicle Books
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Australia
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E-BOOK DISTRIBUTION
V&A E-books are available to retailers from Ingram CoreSource® coresource@ingramcontent.com
V&A CONTACTS
V&A Publishing
Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington London SW7 2RL
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
18 May 2024 – 5 January 2025
Naomi: In Fashion
22 June 2024 – 6 April 2025
Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
9 November 2024 – 5 May 2025
Cartier
12 April – 16 November 2025
Design and Disability
7 June 2025 – 15 February 2026
Marie Antoinette Style
20 September 2025 – 22 March 2026
V&A TOURING EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser CaixaForum, Barcelona
17 October 2024 – 23 February 2025
CaixaForum, Madrid
3 April – 10 August 2025
Diva Kunsthal Rotterdam
26 October 2024 – 2 March 2025
Auckland Museum
19 June – 19 October 2025
Africa Fashion The Field, Chicago
28 February – 29 June 2025
Hallyu! The Korean Wave Rietberg, Zurich
4 April – 17 August 2025
Programmes are subject to change
Cartier
Edited by Helen Molesworth and Rachel Garrahan
NEW: March 2025
£40 HB
ISBN: 9781838510534
287 × 247 mm, 256 pp
220 illustrations
Thema: AFKG, AKT, WCP
Category: Jewellery, Fashion
Published to accompany the V&A exhibition 12 April – 16 November 2025
Few jewellers are as celebrated as Cartier, even fewer have as many instantly recognizable designs – some of which, such as the Tank watch, Love bracelet and Trinity ring, have become iconic. Glamorous, witty, beautiful, and beloved of stars from Elizabeth Taylor to Grace Kelly, over 150 dazzling Cartier pieces are featured here. Published in association with Cartier, this book presents jewels from superlative collections, including the V&A and the Royal Collection, as well as Cartier's own private collection, and it celebrates the history of the company King Edward VII called the ‘Jeweller of Kings and King of Jewellers’.
Helen Molesworth is Senior Curator, Jewellery at the V&A
Rachel Garrahan is Project Curator at the V&A
Also available:
Fabergé: Romance to Revolution
McCarthy & Faurby, eds
£40 HB
ISBN: 9781838510145
Gabrielle Chanel
Cullen & Burks, eds
£40 HB
ISBN: 9781838510398
Design and Disability A Radical Manifesto for Living
Design and Disability
Edited by Natalie Kane, with Reuben Liebeskind
NEW: May 2025
£25 PB
ISBN: 9781838510572
250 x 210 mm, 144pp
80 illustrations
Thema: FXT, JBFM, TNKA
Category: DESIGN
Published to accompany the V&A exhibition 7 June 2025 – 15 February 2026
This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity – acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design is better for all.
Covering ten projects – across fields including fashion, community practices, social media, graphic design, gaming and architecture – Design and Disability delves into the motivations and methods of their creators. It poses questions that are central to their design such as how to balance diverse access needs, what does radical visibility mean and what makes a community.
Design and Disability offers a manifesto for living, now and into the future. It addresses an urgent gap in the literature and is led by disabled communities, emphasizing the importance of recognizing disabled individuals as experts in their own experiences.
Natalie Kane is Curator, Digital Design at the V&A
Reuben Liebeskind is Exhibition Research Assistant at the V&A
Marie Antoinette Style
Edited by Sarah Grant
Forewords by Antonia Fraser and Manolo Blahnik
NEW: September 2025
£40 HB
ISBN: 9781838510541
280 × 235 mm, 272 pp
220 illustrations
Thema: AKT, AGA,
Category: FASHION, HISTORY OF ART
Published to accompany the V&A exhibition 20 September 2025 – 22 March 2026
A fashion icon in her own time, the dress and interiors adopted by Marie Antoinette in the final decades of the 18th century have had a lasting influence over 250 years of design, fashion, film and the decorative arts. Through a wide range of objects, from her own surviving possessions to 21st-century couturier’s gowns such as those of John Galliano for Dior and Alexander McQueen, this richly illustrated book explores how and why the ill-fated Queen of France has provided a constant source of inspiration. It considers afresh the legacy of a complex figure whose style, youth and notoriety have all contributed to her timeless appeal.
a celebration of the musician's iconic individuality...jam packed...
— AnaMaria Glavan, Rolling Stone, June 8 2023
david Bowie is jumPing from universe to universe
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David Bowie Is available in paperback for the first time. Originally published to accompany the ground-breaking exhibition at V&A South Kensington, this is a revised edition of the only book to be granted access to Bowie’s personal archive of performance costume, ephemera and original artwork.
The book traces Bowie’s career from its beginnings in London, through the breakthroughs of Space Oddity and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and on to his impact on the larger international tradition of twentiethcentury avant-garde art. It presents a completely new perspective on his creative work and collaborations.
The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at V&A East will allow new generations to explore the artist’s continuing influence and inspiration, through his recently secured archive of more than 80,000 objects. This book is the perfect introduction to a unique collection.
Victoria Broackes is Director, London Design Biennale
Geoffrey Marsh is former Keeper, Theatre & Performance at the V&A
Also available:
David Bowie Is Broackes & Marsh, eds
£40 HB
ISBN: 9781851777372
by Dior
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior
Translated by Antonia Fraser
NEW EDITION: March 2025
£20 HB
ISBN: 9781838510497
202 × 130 mm, 264 pp
57 illustrations
Thema: DNBF1, AKT
Category: FASHION, AUTOBIOGRAPHY
‘The most important feature of my life – I would be both ungrateful and untruthful if I failed to acknowledge it immediately – has been my good luck; and I must also acknowledge my debt to the fortune-tellers who have predicted it.’
Christian Dior (1905–1957) found fame with his first collection in 1947 when the New Look took the world by storm. This luxurious updated edition of his charming autobiography gives a fascinating insight into the workings of the great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile public face. First published in English in 1957, this updated translation features extra text, not before included in an English edition, from the original French publication. New illustrations include drawings by Dior, behind-the-scenes images from the atelier and stunning fashion photography by Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, Cecil Beaton and others.
Also available:
The Little Dictionary of Fashion
Christian Dior
£12 HB
ISBN: 9781851775552
£6.99 EB
ISBN: 9781851777419
Dior: A New Look, A New Enterprise
Alexandra Palmer
£30 HB
ISBN: 9781851779857
Cats: 50 Postcards
NEW: September 2025
£16.99*
ISBN: 9781838510596
158 × 115 mm
50 illustrations
Thema: WZ, AGNA
Category: STATIONERY
Also available:
Japanese Woodblocks:
100 Postcards
£16.99*
ISBN: 9781851778799
Bringing together 50 of the V&A’s most adorable, stylish and charming cats, this set of postcards features a whole family of cat genres, from the Edwardian eccentricity of Louis, to the whimsy of early Victorian Christmas cards; from the fishstealing moggies of sixteenth-century genre painting to the sophisticated felines of 1920s Paris – enjoy a cat postcard for every mood and season.
Presented in a decorative box, this collection will delight all cat lovers, celebrating cats across the centuries found in the V&A’s archives.
V&A Pattern: 100 Postcards
£16.99*
ISBN: 9781851778157
Micro & Other Mosaics – from Antiquity to the Modern Age
Edited by Alice Minter and Simona Valeriani
NEW: October 2025
£35 HB
ISBN: 9781838510459
280 × 210 mm, 208 pp
135 Illustrations
Thema: AFP, WFN, AFT
Category: DECORATIVE ARTS
Mosaics remain a much-loved means of expression for artists worldwide. They also hold a specific relevance within the V&A since its first Director, Henry Cole, promoted this technique as a signature British artistic medium, with the potential of being also applied on an ‘industrial’ scale. The ambitious and monumental results of such efforts can still be seen in the museum today.
Drawing on a V&A conference, supported by the Gilbert Trust for the Arts, this edited volume offers cuttingedge research on mosaics, spanning thousands of years from antiquity to our contemporary society. Organized chronologically, the essays reveal the technical and stylistic evolution of the craft, as well as its prominence in political, public and civic spaces.
Alice Minter is Senior Curator, the Gilbert Collection, at the V&A
Simona Valeriani is Senior Lecturer at the V&A
Also available:
Micromosaics: Highlights from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection
Heike Zech
£10 HB
ISBN: 9781851779703
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
Edited by Lydia Caston, Duncan Forbes and Newell Harbin Interviews with Elton John and David Furnish Afterword by Sam Taylor-Johnson
£40.00 HB 9781838510466
Naomi: In Fashion
Edited by Sonnet Stanfill and Elisabeth Murray Foreword by Edward Enninful Interview with Naomi Campbell
£35.00 HB 9781838510473
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
Christopher Turner
£30.00 PB 9781838510558
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
Edited by Susan Stronge
£40.00 HB 9781838510367
Fashion and the Floating World: Japanese ukiyo-e Prints
Anna Jackson and Masami Yamada
£35.00 HB 9781838510503
Art and Design
The Arts of Living:
Europe 1600–1815
Miller & Young, eds
£25.00 HB 9781851778072
Dolls’ Houses
Halina Pasierbska
£20.00 HB 9781838510404
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Epic Iran: 5000 Years of Culture Curtis, Sarikhani
Sandmann & Stanley
£45.00 HB 9781851779291
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
Susan Stronge
£40.00 HB 9781838510367
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