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.
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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
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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
BESTSELLER
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
Bawden, Ravilious and the Artists of Great Bardfield
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
Caston, Forbes & Harbin, eds
£40.00 HB 9781838510466
BESTSELLER
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things Walker & Brown, eds
£30.00 HB 9781851779710
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Bailey & Sladen, eds
Kristjana S. Williams illus.
£35.00 HB 9781838510046
Glam Rock
Alwyn W. Turner
£25.00 HB 9781851777648
BESTSELLER
David Bowie is Broackes & Marsh, eds
£40.00 HB 9781851777372
De la Haye & Sutton
£6.99 PB 9781851777129
£10.99 HB 9781851777006
£11.99 HB 9781851778478
£4.99 HB 9781851777785
£11.99 HB 9781851778300
Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day
The Football’s Revolt Lewitt-Him
Wendy and the Wallpaper Cat Hook & Demonti
A Story About Ducks
Jack Townend
Clara Button and the Wedding Day Surprise
De la Haye & Sutton
Japanese Woodblock Prints
100 Postcards
£16.99*
9781851778799
100 Postcards
£16.99*
9781851778492
Pattern
100 Postcards
£16.99*
9781851778157
William Morris
V&A
EB 9781851779529
EB 9781851779352
ABC of Men’s Fashion
Hardy Amies
£6.99*
Always in Vogue
E.W. Chase and I. Chase
£6.99* EB 9781851779697
Can I Help You Madam?
Ethyle Campbell
£6.99*
Dior by Dior Christian Dior
£6.99* EB 9781851776719
It Isn’t All Mink Ginette Spanier
£6.99* EB
Janey Janey Ironside
£6.99*
From A to Biba Barbara Hulanicki
£6.99* EB 9781851776696
Heads and Tales
Aage Thaarup
£6.99* EB 9781851779178
Hints on Hats
Henry Melton
£6.99*
In My Fashion Bettina Ballard
£6.99*
King of Fashion
Paul Poiret
£6.99* EB 9781851776726
Quant by Quant
Mary Quant
£6.99* EB 9781851776689
With Tongue in Chic
Ernestine Carter
£6.99* EB 9781838510060
Model Girl
Jean Dawnay
£6.99* EB 9781851779185
Shocking Life
Elsa Schiaparelli
£6.99* EB 9781851776702
The World of Carmel Snow
Snow with Aswell
£6.99* EB 9781851779314
Modes and Mannequins
Max Boy (anon)
£6.99* EB 9781851779543
£6.99* EB 9781851779819
My Years and Seasons
Pierre Balmain
£6.99* EB 9781838510329
The Truth About Modelling
£6.99* EB 9781851779864
Silver and Gold
Norman Hartnell
Jean Shrimpton
Penguin | V&A
Penguin Random House Children’s and the V&A are partners in producing books for children that showcase the wonder of art and design, with a focus on three key areas: simple but stunning board books for pre-school children; unique activity and novelty formats for pre-school readers to those aged 18; and beautifully produced gift books for art enthusiasts of all ages.
V&A Introduces: Queen Victoria £6.99 HB 9780241372951
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
£9.99 HB 9780241359907
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
£9.99 HB 9780241359914
The Great Gatsby: V&A Collector’s Edition
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£9.99 HB 9780241432570
V&A Introduces: William Morris
£6.99 HB 9780141387222
Why Do We Wear Clothes?
Written & illustrated by Helen Hancocks
£7.99 PB 9780241425718
Making Faces: A Sticker Activity Book
£8.99 PB 9780241339091
Morris 123
Illustrated by Liz Catchpole
£7.99 HB 9780141387598
Very Merry Christmas Colouring
£9.99 BOX SET 9780241356067
William Morris ABC
Illustrated by Liz Catchpole
£7.99 HB 9780141387581
Hello Design! Isabel Thomas, Illustrated by Aurélie Guillerey
£7.99 PB 9780241488881
Jim’s Spectacular Christmas
Emma Thompson
Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
£8.99 PB 9780241488904
£7.99 HB 9780241403129
William
The Twelve Days of Christmas Illustrated by Liz Catchpole
Thames & Hudson | V&A
Thames & Hudson’s mission to make art and culture accessible to as broad an audience as possible has been evident in 75 years of publishing. It is a vision that has also been at the heart of the V&A, the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, since it was established by Prince Albert in 1852. Created in partnership, this year’s new titles include Screenprints: A History, Vanessa Bell: Modern Living, Lives of the Great Makers, William Morris: Pattern and Design and new paperback editions of The V&A Sourcebook of Pattern & Ornament and The V&A Book of Colour in Design.
Thames & Hudson | V&A titles distribution
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Screenprints: A History
Edited by Gill Saunders
NEW: March
£35.00 HB
ISBN: 9780500481011
260 × 200 mm, 272 pp
185 illustrations
Thema: Prints and printmaking
Category: Art – Art Reference, History & Theory
Vanessa Bell: Modern Living
Edited by Rosalind McKever
NEW: April
£16.99 HB
ISBN: 9780500481059
190 × 180 mm, 144 pp
120 illustrations
Thema: Paintings and painting, decorative arts, individual artists, art monographs
Category: Artist monographs
Lives of the Great Makers
Edited by Rebecca Knott and James Robinson
NEW: September
£35.00 HB
ISBN: 9780500481042
246 × 186 mm, 304 pp
230 illustrations
Thema: Decorative arts, individual artists, art monographs
Category: Design – Decorative Arts
William Morris: Pattern and Design
Introduced by Jenny
Lister
NEW: September
£25.00 PB
ISBN: 9780500481165
234 × 198 mm, 352 pp
450 illustrations
Thema: Design, Industrial and commercial arts, fashion and textile design
Category: Design – Decorative Arts
V&A Sourcebook of Pattern & Ornament
Edited by Amelia Calver
NEW IN PAPERBACK: February
£25.00 PB
ISBN: 9780500298404
234 × 198 mm, 400 pp
1,146 illustrations
Thema: Prints and printmaking
Category: Art – Art Reference, History & Theory
The V&A Book of Colour in Design
Edited by Tim Travis
NEW IN PAPERBACK: September
£25.00 PB
ISBN: 9780500298671
260 × 200 mm, 304 pp
More than 450 illustrations
Thema: Decorative Arts, History of Design
Category: Art – Art Reference, History & Theory
17th-Century Men’s
Dress Patterns
Braun, Costigliolo, North, Thornton & Tiramani
£40.00 HB 9780500519059
20th-Century
Fashion in Detail
Wilcox &. Mendes
£25.00 PB 9780500294109
Japanese Dress in Detail
Josephine Rout
£25.00 PB 9780500480571
Rings
Rachel Church
£14.99 PB 9780500480991
18th-Century
Fashion in Detail
Susan North
£25.00 PB 9780500292631
Chinese Dress in Detail
Sau Fong Chan
£30.00 PB 9780500480939
19th-Century
Fashion in Detail
Lucy Johnston
£25.00 PB 9780500292648
Brooches and Badges
Rachel Church
£14.95 HB 9780500480359
Shoes
Johnston & Woolley
£12.95 HB 9780500519387
Autofocus:
The Car in Photography
Marta Weiss
£24.95 HB 9780500480526
Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
Marta Weiss
£24.95 HB 9780500480373
Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography
Clayton with Caston and Kaluznick
£40 HB 9780500480960
Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits
Claudia Acott Williams
£35.00 HB 9780500480922
Cameraless Photography
Martin Barnes
£24.95 HB 9780500480366
Colour Mania: Photographing the World in Autochrome
Catlin Langford
£45.00 HB 9780500480762
Into the Woods: Trees in Photography
Martin Barnes
£24.95 HB 9780500480533
Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty
Springer & Weiss
£25.00 PB 9780500480861
Calligraphy & Lettering: A Maker’s Guide
£19.99 PB 9780500294307
Patchwork & Quilting: A Maker’s Guide
£19.99 PB 9780500293263
Aubrey Beardsley: Decadence & Desire
Jan Marsh
£14.95 HB 9780500480595
Edward Bawden’s England
Gill Saunders
£14.99 HB 9780500480779
Voysey’s Birds and Animals
Karen Livingstone
£14.95 HB 9780500480601
Constable’s Skies: Paintings and Sketches by
John Constable Mark Evans
£14.99 HB 9780500480328
Eric Ravilious: Landscapes & Nature
Ella Ravilious
£14.99 HB 9780500480786
William Morris’s Flowers
Rowan Bain
£14.99 HB 9780500480458
Christopher Dresser: Design Pioneer
Max Donnelly
£16.99 HB 9780500480700
Debra N.
£14.99 HB 9780500480717
Wedgwood: Craft & Design
Catrin Jones
£14.99 HB 9780500480755
The Age of Glamour: An Art Deco Colouring Book
£12.99* PB 9780500420690
William Morris: An Arts & Crafts Colouring Book
£14.99* PB 9780500420591
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portraits of Women
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The Artist’s Sketchbook
Edited by JENNY GASCHKE
Edited by JENNY GASCHKE
Spectrum
Introduction by Ros Byam Shaw
£20.00 PB 9780500480823
Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to Now
Alun Graves
£65.00 HB 9780500480892
Vintage Travel Posters: A Journey to the Sea in 30 Posters Gill Saunders
£19.95* PB 9780500480281
The Tile Book: History · Pattern · Design
Introduction by Terry Bloxham
£20.00 HB 9780500480250
William Morris
Anna Mason, ed.
£50.00 HB 9780500480502
The Story of Scottish Design
Philip Long & Joanna Norman, eds
£25.00 HB 9780500480335
The V&A Book of Colour in Design
Tim Travis, ed.
£30.00 HB 9780500480274
Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Karen Livingstone, ed.
£30.00 HB 9780500480731
The V&A Sourcebook of Pattern & Ornament
Amelia Calver
£40.00 HB 9780500480724
V&A in association with Lund Humphries and UCL Press
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UCL Press
The V&A/UCL Press titles aim to share new high-quality research relating to the V&A’s collections and practices, and to ensure that this research reaches as wide a global readership as possible through open access.
UCL Press titles are open access and available for download from www.uclpress.co.uk
Lund Humphries
V&A NineteenthCentury series
Julius Bryant, series editor
These richly illustrated books explore 19th-century British art and design through the remarkable and extensive collections of the V&A.
Creating
The
Enriching the V&A
Owen Jones and the V&A
Olivia Horsfall Turner
£39.95
Botticelli, Past and Present
Ana Debenedetti & Caroline Elam, eds
£0.99 Open access epub 9781787354623
£0 Open access PDF 9781787354593
£50.00 HB 9781787354616
£27.99 PB 9781787354609
What Photographs Do
Elizabeth Edwards & Ella Ravilious, eds
£0.99 Open access epub 9781800083011
£0 Open access PDF 9781800082984
£50.00 HB 9781800083004
£30.00 PB 9781800082991
The India Museum Revisited
Arthur MacGregor
£0.99 Open access epub 9781800085732
£0.00 Open access PDF 9781800085701
£60.00 HB 9781800085725
£45.00 PB 9781800085718
Reverses: Verso works on paper from the V&A collection George Eksts
£25.00 HB 9781916412170
Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A Research Guide
