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Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A new book in the V&A Pattern series, revealing the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Available separately — as well as in a collectors' slipcase edition — this season's titles are Chinese Textiles, Spitalfields Silks, Pop Patterns and Walter Crane. Spitalfields Silks displays delightful floral designs alongside quirky, strikingly modern silks, all produced in…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A new book in the V&A Pattern series, revealing the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Available separately — as well as in a collectors' slipcase edition — this season's titles are Chinese Textiles, Spitalfields Silks, Pop Patterns and Walter Crane. Pop Patterns showcases Warhol's influence on commercial design in the 1970s, when soup cans, lipsticks, and even men's haircuts…
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