Authors include: Abraham Thomas, Valerie Mendes, Anna Jackson and Antonia Brodie.
This series celebrates the V+A's status as a source of inspiration for designers, reflecting the unique breadth and depth of a collection that represents over 3000 years of objects from all over the world. This boxed set of four pocket sized books makes an attractive gift but is also a valuable source of ideas for designers of all kinds. The four titles in the set feature more of the museum's most popular patterns: the timeless ornamental designs of Owen Jones, innovative designs of the 1920s to 1940s in Novelty Patterns, a wide range of Japanese textile patterns in Kimono and a superb array of mainly British plant-inspired patterns in Garden Florals. A short introduction to each book puts the patterns in context.
Each book comes with a free CD of the images inside, which can be redrawn or reworked. Commercial designers looking to license patterns and individual motifs from the collection can use the books as a starting point for research.
