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Isabella Blow nearly auction and book

Isabella Blow’s clothing collection of more than ninety Alexander McQueen pieces, sixty Philip Treacy hats, and many Manolo Blahnik shoes was to go up for auction at Christie’s London this September. However, as the Financial Times later reported, the entire collection was bought in a private sale by heiress Daphne Guinness. Nevertheless, Thames & Hudson's book Isabella Blow by Martina Rink will be published in September!

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Vincent Van Gogh on BBC1

'Vincent Van Gogh - Painted with Words' produced by Alan Yentob, directed by Andrew Hutton and featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Vincent, was broadcast on BBC1 at 17.10 on Monday 5th April. Every word spoken by the actors in this film was sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.
See the book!
Vincent van Gogh: The Letters

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Prizewinner Sophie Ristelhueber

Sophie Ristelhueber, photographer of Aftermath, Operations and W(est) B(ank), all published by Thames & Hudson, has been awarded the Deutsche Borse Photography prize. The prize is granted annually to a contemporary photographer who has made a significant contribution to the medium. She has a current two-month retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, having also had major exhibitions at venues including New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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John Hemming honoured

Congratulations to John Hemming who has been awarded the Order of the Sun by the Peruvian Government. The author of Monuments of the Incas and Tree of Rivers received the order at the recent book launch. It is the oldest order awarded by any South American country, instituted by Simon Bolivar himself. See John Hemming talking about Tree of Rivers

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Burger books

12 photographs from The Elements of Design are going to be used as the main decorative themes in 200 McDonald's restaurants in Europe

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T&H winners in Historical Picture Researcher of the Year

Thames and Hudson Picture Researchers Sally Paley and Alice Foster have won the Longman-History Today award for Historical Picture Researcher of the Year. Katie Morgan came second. The award ceremony was held on 12 January 2010.


• Sally Paley and Alice Foster for
Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day
• Katie Morgan for
Great Military Leaders and Their Campaigns

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H.C.Robbins Landon

We are sad to announce the death of H.C. Robbins Landon, the distinguished musicologist whose groundbreaking research and many publications, in particular on Haydn and Mozart, managed to be both scholarly and compellingly readable. The many books by H.C. Robbins Landon published by Thames & Hudson include:
1791: Mozart's Last Year, Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791, Mozart and Vienna and the five volumes in the monumental series Haydn: Chronicle and Works.
A Festschrift , also published by Thames & Hudson, was presented to H.C. Robbins Landon on his Seventieth Birthday.
See the obituary in The Guardian
See the obituary in The Times

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Grayson Perry and Will Self at the British Library

Celebrating the publication of the new monograph, Grayson Perry was in conversation with Will Self at the British Library on 10th November. He called the art boom of the last 15 years 'an interesting moment' but post collapse we would see 'a re-evaluation of what’s happened'. See the review of the event in Londonist

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Timmy the Tug revisited

Thames & Hudson held celebratory champagne drinks for illustrator Jim Downer opposite the house which he shared with Ted Hughes from 1953 – 1956. Richard Hollis, the graphic designer (author of T&H's Graphic Design: A Concise History) was there too, as he had lived in Jim’s old flat from 1956. They went back to the top floor and there met Sean, the current occupier of their old flat, who is also an illustrator. Ted Hughes, who had a strong interest in the paranormal, would have been intrigued by the continuing creative thread in the house!

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New President for T&H Inc (USA)

Thames & Hudson Inc. announces the appointment of Will Balliett as its President and Publisher, commencing in October. He will succeed Peter Warner who will be retiring after thirty years as Thames & Hudson's President. Balliett co-founded the book packaging firm Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc. in 1989, and later became the publisher of Carroll & Graf Publishers and Thunder's Mouth Press when both imprints were part of the Avalon Publishing Group, before moving to Hyperion in 2007.