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This summer, Alice Melvin’s award-winning Mouse is back to discover all that the seaside has to offer... ☀️🐭 Each day br...
08/04/2025

This summer, Alice Melvin’s award-winning Mouse is back to discover all that the seaside has to offer... ☀️🐭

Each day brings new excitement, from sandcastles on the beach to ice cream on the promenade, sunbathing on the sand dunes to looking for treasures among the rock pools!

Intricate illustrations and interactive flaps reveal many plants and animals that young readers can identify, and the atmospheric rhyming text sets the scene for this perfect summer vacation.

Order your copy of “Mouse by the Sea” today!

Every mountain biker dreams of the perfect place to ride. And few countries in the world offer such a labyrinth of excit...
08/01/2025

Every mountain biker dreams of the perfect place to ride. And few countries in the world offer such a labyrinth of exciting trails against a backdrop of dramatic and surreal landscapes as Aotearoa New Zealand.

With contributions by leading photographers and professional athletes influential to the rise of mountain biking, “Eden” is an exhilarating photographic survey and collection of essays capturing the growth of this young sport in the youngest country in the world.

Publishing September 9th, “Eden: A Portrait of Mountain Biking in Aotearoa New Zealand” is available for pre-order now.

“I love to create rooms that spark emotion and people want to linger in . . . ” — Anna SpiroPraised for her awe-inspirin...
07/30/2025

“I love to create rooms that spark emotion and people want to linger in . . . ” — Anna Spiro

Praised for her awe-inspiring ability to mix vibrant patterned fabrics, antique furniture, and collectible art, Australian interior designer Anna Spiro () has worked tirelessly throughout her design career to create compelling homes and spaces for her clients.

Filled with insights into Spiro’s design and decorating process, how she approaches color and pattern play, and her considerations for each room, “Anna Spiro: A Life in Pattern” is the ideal source of inspiration for readers and admirers throughout the world of Spiro’s colorful and visually complex style.

First published in the US in 2022, Thames & Hudson will be releasing a new, compact hardcover edition of this striking guide on September 9. Pre-order this title at thamesandhudsonusa.com

All images © Tim Salisbury

Thank you to everyone who came down to the sold-out signing event for “Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios” last...
07/29/2025

Thank you to everyone who came down to the sold-out signing event for “Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios” last Friday with the book’s authors, Martin Porter and David Goggin!

The event was held at Books by the Bay in Sausalito, CA, a bookstore near the original Record Plant Sausalito, one of the three recording studios in the Record Plant family that was the site of some of the stories and shenanigans told in the book. The building is now fully restored and named 2200 Studios.

Many of the studio’s alumni from the 1970s attended the event, including former studio managers and the original engineering technical team, as well as new owners Chris Skarakis and Jim Rees.

Center L-R are Cheryl Popp (peace sign), authors David Goggin and Martin Porter. Flanking Porter are Chris Skarakis and Jim Rees, current owners of the original Record Plant Sausalito studio at 2200 Bridgeway. Photo credit: Keith W. Criss © 2025



Record Plant Diaries

Make the most of summer with the third title in the charming field guide series! With “A Field Guide to Summer,” curious...
07/24/2025

Make the most of summer with the third title in the charming field guide series!

With “A Field Guide to Summer,” curious young readers will discover how caterpillars transform into butterflies and why bees are so busy in summertime. They’ll search for bugs, build sundials, learn to identify tree types, and make their own flower crowns too.

Each volume is filled with lyrical poems, hands-on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages written by Gabby Dawnay, alongside vividly colored, seasonal illustrations by Dorien Brouwers.

Order the full series including “A Field Guide to Winter,” now available for pre-order, at the link in bio.

Launched by the Lumière brothers in 1907, the autochrome process enabled authentic color to be integrated with an image ...
07/22/2025

Launched by the Lumière brothers in 1907, the autochrome process enabled authentic color to be integrated with an image at the time of capture, transforming the photography industry and the representation of fashion.

Couturiers like Fortuny, Poiret, Doucet, Vionnet, Lucile, Chanel, and Lanvin embraced the way that autochromes showcased their exquisite designs to luminous perfection in vivid color. The images were also used at industrial and trade fairs such as the Salon du Goût Français, France’s “virtual” autochrome exhibition of luxury items, and Albert Kahn’s encyclopedic Archives de la Planète, a bold attempt to record the world’s cultures and clothing.

Featuring an extensive array of original research and many never-before-published autochrome photographs, “The Color of Clothes” by fashion historian Cally Blackman () celebrates and reshapes a monumental period in the early history of fashion photography.

Image credits:
1 - Caroline Trevor, by John B. Trevor, c. 1914. Courtesy International Center of Photography, Gift of John B. Trevor Jr, 1976, 859.1976. © John B. Trevor
2 - Young girl on a bench by unknown photographer, 1910. Collection AN, Paris
3 - Unknown women, by Johannes Lutz, c. 1910. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
4 - Mary Warner and Edeltrude Kühn, by Heinrich Kühn, c. 1907. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
5 - Robert Bland Bird, self-portrait, c. 1915. © Royal Photographic Society, Bristol
6 - Unknown woman in tennis attire, by unknown photographer, c. 1915. Collection AN, Paris
7 - Unknown woman, by Johannes Lutz, 1910-12. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Published last year to coincide with the remarkable exhibition at the Art Gallery Ontario—now traveling to the Metropoli...
07/15/2025

Published last year to coincide with the remarkable exhibition at the Art Gallery Ontario—now traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art beginning July 21—“Casa Susanna” is a powerful and enduring account of America’s first-known trans network.

Through extensive research and a rare collection of photographs—most serendipitously discovered at a New York flea market in 2004—the book tells the incredible story of an underground community of transgender women, gender non-conforming people, and cross-dressing men who found refuge at Casa Susanna, a modest house in the Catskills.

There, they were free to express their true selves—to live, even for just a few days, as they had always dreamed—dressed as and living as women without fear of arrest or institutionalization. These intimate images capture moments of joy, self-discovery, and solidarity.

All of this was made possible by Susanna Valenti, who, on her own journey toward womanhood, created Casa Susanna as a sanctuary for others to do the same.

Order your copy at https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/casa-susanna-the-story-of-the-first-trans-network-in-the-united-states-1959-1968-hardcover.

Picasso and his art are known the world over and have been studied in numerous exhibitions and publications. But how did...
07/11/2025

Picasso and his art are known the world over and have been studied in numerous exhibitions and publications. But how did this global recognition spread? And how does Picasso influence the work of contemporary artists working in other parts of the world, such as Asia?

Out now, ‘Picasso/Asia: A Conversation’ by François Dareau (.dareau) and Doryun Chong () explores these questions through two intertwined narratives. The first interprets Picasso’s life and practice through four archetypal identities, and the second considers his oeuvre ‘in conversation’ with works by Asian and Asian diasporic artists.

A bold exploration of the complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, and West and East, this book enriches the discourse on transnational contemporary Asian art and visual culture, while contributing to the growing critical literature on global art history.
‘Picasso/Asia’ is published to accompany the exhibition, ‘The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation’ at M+ (), Hong Kong. The exhibition is running until July 13, 2025.

畢加索及其藝術作品聞名世界，在眾多展覽和出版物中都有所研究，他是怎樣在全球變得家喻戶曉？畢加索又是如何影響亞洲、以致世界各地的當代藝術家作品？

由法蘭索瓦．達羅和鄭道鍊撰寫的《畢加索：與亞洲對話》現已出版，本書透過兩個相互交織的故事來探討上述問題。第一篇透過四個原型身分詮釋畢加索的生平和創作，第二篇故事則將他的作品與亞洲及海外亞裔藝術家的作品進行「對話」。

本書大膽探索起源與迴響、發明與適應、西方與東方之間的複雜關係，豐富了跨國當代亞洲藝術及視覺文化的論述，同時為日益增長的全球藝術史批判文獻作出貢獻。

《畢加索：與亞洲對話》隨附M+展覽「香港賽馬會呈獻系列：畢加索──與亞洲對話」出版，展期至2025年7月13日。

Born on July 9, 1937, David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth and twenty-first cen...
07/09/2025

Born on July 9, 1937, David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has produced work in almost every medium—painting, drawing, stage design, photography, and printmaking—and has stretched the boundaries of all of them.
Today, we celebrate Hockney’s life, his relentless practice of and innovation in his art, and our longstanding collaboration with the artist.
Swipe through to see some of the books we’ve published with and on Hockney more recently.

Image credit: David Hockney. Self Portrait IV, 25th March 2012. iPad Drawing. © David Hockney

Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the “traditional” or “...
07/01/2025

Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the “traditional” or “beautiful.” Her sculpture, performance, and photography is radical, provocative, and often steeped in humor, and employs unusual, sometimes grotesque materials—bodily fluids, meat, flowers, chocolate, and compost among them.

Although Chadwick’s work was widely exhibited during her lifetime, attention to it declined following her unexpected death in 1996. Coinciding with a major retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield (), this publication acknowledges the significance of Chadwick’s work afresh.

Merging art and life, with a focus on her interdisciplinary interests and engagement with education, music, and politics, as well as an in-depth study of her art and ideas, “Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures” is a fitting tribute to her vital impact on social and cultural history.

The book is edited by Laura Smith, assisted by Farah Dailami, with contributions from Katrin Bucher Trantow, Maria Christoforidou, Philomena Epps, and Marina Warner, and interviews with Louisa Buck and David Notarius.

Available today at the thamesandhudsonusa.com.

Images:
Helen Chadwick, The Oval Court © Estate of Helen Chadwick © Victoria and Albert Museum, Lo, Kardum, Maja
Helen Chadwick, Viral Landscape 2 (yellow) © Estate of Helen Chadwick

How far back does a history go? What will we find if we return to the beginning?In “The Making of the Middle Sea,” profe...
06/26/2025

How far back does a history go? What will we find if we return to the beginning?

In “The Making of the Middle Sea,” professor of archaeology Cyprian Broodbank explores how the societies, culture, and economies of the Mediterranean region first came into being, starting from prehistory through to the beginning of the Classical period.

Extensively illustrated and ranging across disciplines, subject matter, and chronology, this award-winning history has been updated with a new preface by Broodbank interpreting the latest archaeological research on ancient Mediterranean history.

We recently partnered with historian and content creator David Miano () who spoke about “The Making of the Middle Sea” on his YouTube channel, World of Antiquity, while discussing trade in the ancient world. Learn more via the link in our bio.

From artist and world-builder Ben Mauro comes HUXLEY, a gripping novel set in the aftermath of planetary war and nuclear...
06/24/2025

From artist and world-builder Ben Mauro comes HUXLEY, a gripping novel set in the aftermath of planetary war and nuclear devastation.

In a society enforced by cloned and AI-bred elite humans known as Ronin, two soldiers—Max and Kai—stumble upon Huxley, an ancient sentient robot. What begins as a routine mission quickly turns into a mystery of galactic scale, as the robot’s true purpose is revealed. . .

Mauro’s thrilling sci-fi debut sets the stage for an immersive postapocalyptic adventure that will leave you captivated and hungry for more.

Order your copy at the link in bio.

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