V&a Pattern: Garden Florals [With CDROM]

By Antonia Brodie

Book Overview

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with a vast collection that been an unparalleled resource for designers for 150 years. This new series of pattern books presents the range of the V&A's superb collections. Beautifully designed, accessible, and informative perhaps a little quirky they are a repository of ideas for designers of all kinds, but also a collection of desirable gift books. Included in each volume is a CD of all the images shown within--to be redrawn, reworked, or even licensed for further use. The books are available individually or in a beautiful decorative slipcase. Garden Florals brings together a wonderful range of botanical patterns from wallpaper, textiles, prints, and drawings. The short text is followed by 60 colorplates that feature gorgeous plant-form patterns dating from 1880 to 1910.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851775889
• ISBN13: 9781851775880
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 5.7"
• Age Range: 13 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary