Fashion and Design A collection of works on design including Morris & Company's wallpaper and...
Fashion and Design A collection of works on design including Morris & Company's wallpaper and textiles sampler 'Art of Decoration' (2nd vol); Pradasphere (the 2014 book for the travelling exhibition); and David Bailey's Birth of the Cool (1999). The changing tastes of the consumer are tracked, dissected, critiqued and celebrated in the photographs, samples, images and words of this collection of books and pamphlets on design. There is a particular focus on textiles in fashion, carpets and interior decoration, with books on quilts, knitwear and lingerie amongst the works, which are both academic and popular in tone. [29]