Sudpsuez British Museums: Silk Roads
Words by Sue Brunning, Luk Yu-ping, Elisabeth R. O’Connell
‘The true soul of this new exhibition has been encapsulated within a single book, a treasure trove of stories, images, and insights that brought the ancient trade routes to life.’ – .Cent magazine A richly illustrated publication that explores the networks of contacts and exchanges spanning Afro-Eurasia from 500 to 1000 ce, highlighting how the movement of people, objects and ideas shaped cultures and histories. The term ‘Silk Road’ conjures a range of romantic images. Camel caravans crossing desert dunes. Merchants trading silk and spices. Far-flung commerce between ‘East’ and ‘West’. The reality was far richer. Focusing on a defining period between 500 and 1000 CE, this beautifully illustrated book reimagines the Silk Roads as a web of interlocking networks linking Asia, Africa and Europe, from Japan to Ireland, from the Arctic to Madagascar. It tells a remarkable story of people, objects and ideas flowing in all directions, through the traces these journeys left behind – including ceramics from Tang China recovered from a shipwreck in the Java Sea, sword-fittings set with Indian garnets buried in England, and a selection of letters and legal texts from a synagogue in Cairo revealing a Jewish community’s links from India to al-Andalus. Woven throughout, encounters with various peoples active on the Silk Roads, from seafarers to Sogdians, Aksumites and Vikings, reveal the human stories, innovations and transfers of knowledge that emerged, shaping cultures and histories across continents centuries before the formation of today’s globalised world.
Published by Flammarion
Sudpsuez Casa by Martina Mondadori
By Martina Mondadori
Foreword by Aerin Lauder
This sumptuous volume of stunning photographs, personal essays, and Italian recipes shows readers how to achieve the look made famous in interior-design circles by the groundbreaking and effortlessly cool Cabana magazine. Casa Cabana presents the publication's distinctive aesthetic, drawing on some of the world's most stylish interiors as the backdrop for the Casa Cabana homewares collections, with iconic Renzo Mongiardino fabrics featured throughout.
Revel in the details and accents capable of transforming any home into a Cabana-worthy abode, including tablecloths, china, glasses, cushions, and more, as author and Cabana founder Martina Mondadori introduces us to her coterie of tastemakers who share their secrets on entertaining, lifestyle, and design. Discover creative polymath Patrick Kinmonth's thoughts on country living, design gallerist Jamie Creel's tricks for creating an unusual table setting, and acclaimed cook Skye McAlpine's mouthwatering recipe for peach and saffron crostata, as you step behind the glossy pages and immerse yourself in Cabana's singular joie de vivre.
Each copy is bound in one of four fabrics created in collaboration with Schumacher—Sasha Diamond Ikat, Daria Paisley, Floral Sisal, or Saz Paisley. Orders will be fulfilled with one of the fabrics available, selected at random.
Published by Vendome
Sudpsuez Chinese Dress in Detail by Sau Fong Chan
Words by Sau Fong Chan
Photographs by Sarah Duncan
Chinese Dress in Detail reveals the beauty and variety of Chinese dress for women, men, and children, both historically and geographically, showcasing the intricacy of decorative embroidery and rich use of materials and weaving and dyeing techniques. The reader is granted a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that is often too fragile to display, from quivering hair ornaments, stunning silk jackets and coats, festive robes, and pleated skirts, to pieces embellished with rare materials such as peacock-feather threads or created through unique craft skills, as well as handpicked contemporary designs.
A general introduction provides an essential overview of the history of Chinese dress, plotting key developments in style, design, and mode of dress, and the traditional importance of clothing as a social signifier, followed by eight thematic chapters that examine Chinese dress in exquisite detail from head to toe. Each garment is accompanied by a short text and detailed photography; front-and-back line drawings are provided for key items.
An extraordinary exploration of the splendour and complexity of Chinese garments and accessories, Chinese Dress in Detail will delight all followers of fashion, costume, and textiles.
Sudpsuez Cloth That Changed The World by Sarah Fee
Edited by Sarah Fee
The story of India’s exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world
Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores: it became a driving force of the spice trade in the East Indies, and it attracted European merchants, who by the 17th century were importing millions of pieces. In the 18th century, Indian chintz became so coveted globally that Europeans attempted to imitate its uniquely vibrant dyes and design—a quest that eventually sparked the mechanical and business innovations that ushered in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching societal impacts.
This beautifully illustrated book tells the fascinating and multidisciplinary stories of the widespread desire for Indian chintz over 1,000 years to its latest resurgence in modern fashion and home design. Based on the renowned Indian chintz collections held at the Royal Ontario Museum, the book showcases the genius of Indian chintz makers and the dazzling variety of works they have created for specialized markets: religious and court banners for India, monumental gilded wall hangings for elite homes in Europe and Thailand, luxury women’s dress for England, sacred hangings for ancestral ceremonies in Indonesia, and today’s runways of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai.
Sudpsuez Collecting Nature : The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens
Words by Clive Aslet and Svante Helmbaek Tirén
Featuring amazing reproductions of floral specimens, minerals, seashells and more from rarely seen collections, and beautiful engravings of 18th- and 19th-century collections, this stupendously produced volume takes as its starting point the famous Timm Collection at Engelsberg Ironworks in Sweden, created by Gabriel Casper Timm and his son Paul August in the 19th century. Throughout their lives, father and son devoted much of their leisure time to collecting plants, insects, minerals and other natural treasures across Scandanavia, which they preserved in beautiful collector’s cabinets. Maintaining close contact with collectors and scientists, they also assembled a library of volumes on natural science along with books on spirituality and faith.
Drawing on a range of historical materials, Collecting Nature places the Timm Collection in a larger dialogue with other collectors, thinkers and scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries, showing how the world of ideas in collecting has developed and continues to influence us today.
Published by Bokförlaget Stolpe
Sudpsuez David Hicks In Colour by Ashley Hicks, Chevron
Limited Edition
Written & Edited by Ashley Hicks
Foreword by Tory Burch
David Hicks in colour is a tribute to the exceptional talent of interior designer David Hicks, a renowned decorator, and master of pattern, color, and design. With an introduction by Tory Burch, this limited-edition book offers a fresh insight into the life and work of David Hicks. Organized into ten color-themed portfolios, the book is a visual feast, showcasing David Hicks' most iconic designs and color palettes and previously unseen photographs, many in color for the first time. It delves into Hicks' design process and the influences that shaped his unique aesthetic.
Each copy is bound in one of three iconic David Hicks prints, designed by Christoph Radl as a Magazine-style reimagining Hicks' early books, combining their bold 60s graphics and imagery with a tactile, sensual feeling that is very much of today and very Cabana.
Published by Cabana
February 2023
Sudpsuez David Hicks In Colour by Ashley Hicks, Clinch
Limited Edition
Written & Edited by Ashley Hicks
Foreword by Tory Burch
David Hicks in colour is a tribute to the exceptional talent of interior designer David Hicks, a renowned decorator, and master of pattern, color, and design. With an introduction by Tory Burch, this limited-edition book offers a fresh insight into the life and work of David Hicks. Organized into ten color-themed portfolios, the book is a visual feast, showcasing David Hicks' most iconic designs and color palettes and previously unseen photographs, many in color for the first time. It delves into Hicks' design process and the influences that shaped his unique aesthetic.
Each copy is bound in one of three iconic David Hicks prints, designed by Christoph Radl as a Magazine-style reimagining Hicks' early books, combining their bold 60s graphics and imagery with a tactile, sensual feeling that is very much of today and very Cabana.
Published by Cabana
February 2023
Sudpsuez David Hicks in Colour by Ashley Hicks, Topkapi
Limited Edition
Written & Edited by Ashley Hicks
Foreword by Tory Burch
David Hicks in colour is a tribute to the exceptional talent of interior designer David Hicks, a renowned decorator, and master of pattern, color, and design. With an introduction by Tory Burch, this limited-edition book offers a fresh insight into the life and work of David Hicks. Organized into ten color-themed portfolios, the book is a visual feast, showcasing David Hicks' most iconic designs and color palettes and previously unseen photographs, many in color for the first time. It delves into Hicks' design process and the influences that shaped his unique aesthetic.
Each copy is bound in one of three iconic David Hicks prints, designed by Christoph Radl as a Magazine-style reimagining Hicks' early books, combining their bold 60s graphics and imagery with a tactile, sensual feeling that is very much of today and very Cabana.
Available In Three Cover Patterns: Topkapi, Chevron and Clinch
Published by Cabana
February 2023
Sudpsuez David Hicks: A Life of Design
Words by Ashley Hicks
Back in print for the first time in years, this classic of interior-design history showcases the masterful work of David Hicks (1929–1998), who is acknowledged as one of the most important designers of the late twentieth century, in the company of Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley.
Known for his bold use of color, eclecticism, and geometric designs in carpets and textiles, Hicks turned English decorating on its head in the 1950s and ’60s. His trademark use of electrifying color combinations, and mixing antiques, modern furniture, and abstract paintings became the “in style” for the chic of the day, including Vidal Sassoon and Helena Rubinstein. By the 1970s, David Hicks was a brand; his company was making wallpaper, fabrics, and linens and had outposts in eight countries, including the United States where he worked with the young Mark Hampton, and where his wallpaper was used in the White House. “My greatest contribution as an interior designer has been to show people how to use bold color mixtures, how to use patterned carpets, how to light rooms, and how to mix old with new,” he stated in his 1968 work, David Hicks on Living—With Taste, the last authoritative book on his work. Written by his son, Ashley Hicks, with unprecedented access to Hicks’s archives, personal photographs, journals, and scrapbooks, this book is a vibrantly illustrated celebration of a half century of stunning interiors.
Sudpsuez Décors Barbares: The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma
A refreshing antidote to the contrived nature of much contemporary interior design, the textiles and decoration of Nathalie Farman-Farma have gained a devoted following among celebrity and socialite clients for their folkloric charm and romantic exuberance. Drawing on the enchantment of fairytales and history of material culture spanning Persia, Central Asia and Russia, Farman-Farma employs traditional printmaking techniques to create exquisitely detailed fabrics, which she uses to conjure interiors infused with warmth and natural charisma.
Farman-Farma's townhouse and studio in London and her family homes in Connecticut and Lake Tahoe feature in this captivating volume, forming the backdrop for her Décors Barbares range of fabrics, as well as her vast collection of antique textiles, costumes and jewellery. Vogue has called Farman-Farma "the textile designer you need to know." Her clients include Lauren Santo Domingo, Tory Burch, and influential interior designer David Netto, who writes the foreword to this book.
Sudpsuez Dries Van Noten Limited Edition N10 & Anthology
The Dries Van Noten Limited Edition Box Set was created in celebration of Cabana’s 5th anniversary, comprised of the Anthology - a collection of Cabana’s best stories from Issues N1-N9, and Magazine Issue N10. Housed in a display box with fabrics selected by Dries himself, this limited edition set is the perfect addition to your library or mantlepiece display.
Sudpsuez English Furniture 1680 – 1760 by Christian Jussel and William DeGregorio
Words by Christian Jussel and William DeGregorio
Brings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760
These volumes are dedicated to one of the finest collections of early English furniture and needlework, formed by Percival D. Griffiths (1861–1937). Together with the noted authority, Robert W. Symonds, Griffiths assembled a pioneering collection of early English decorative arts: furniture, domestic needlework and related objects all dating to the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries. The book illustrates nearly 700 pieces owned by Griffiths and includes images of his interiors, and biographical data on Griffiths. Catalogue entries provide color images, exhibition histories, references, and provenance. These volumes present a wealth of new information that will aid both the amateur and connoisseur alike.