Since the publication in 1939 of Frank Lloyd Wright’s An Organic Architecture, Lund Humphries has been a leading publisher of illustrated art books. With our roots in British Modernism, our list today encompasses books for art specialists, professionals and enthusiasts across all periods and genres. We value high-quality design and reproduction, serious but accessible writing, and unique collections of reference material.
An additional recent stream of publishing on art business and art markets is aimed at art professionals, students and collectors and introduces readers at all levels to the workings of the art world. As a pioneer of museum co-publications in the 1980s, Lund Humphries still regularly collaborates with major museums and galleries around the world. We also regularly work in partnership with artists, estates, foundations and galleries to publish illustrated monographs and complete catalogues of modern and contemporary artists.
This is the first critical and biographical account of Sir Leslie Martin (1908-2000), one of the leading modern architects of post-war Britain. Martin was perhaps best known for the Royal Festival Hall (1948-1951) as part of the Festival of Britain, and his controversial masterplan to demolish most of Whitehall, London's historic government ......
Painted interiors, narratives spilling over walls and ceilings, can unlock the sensory worlds of the British Isles in the 17th century. Lydia Hamlett explores how these paintings were designed to appeal to our emotions through the five senses, and reframes the British Baroque interior as an active, imaginative space. This book features stunning ......
Founded in 1976, Buro Happold is a renowned progressive international engineering and planning consultancy, working alongside the world's best architects and designers as an equal player. Highlighting the ideals and achievements of the company's founder, Sir Edmund (Ted) Happold (1930-1996) on which their work is based, this book reveals how its ......
Conversations on Structure, Materials and Tectonics in Architecture
Through in-depth discussion with seven architectural practices, this book offers a rich survey of perspectives on the different cultures and approaches to construction in the USA, Europe and Latin America. The practices were selected because they have experience of practising architecture in different contexts and continents and so have ......
There are many opportunities for tourists and cultural explorers to encounter homes that are open to the public. This book questions why we are so fascinated with these real and imagined spaces of domesticity and what it means to recreate home as a museum experience. It examines what desires are met when we walk through the door of a house museum ......
This engaging book presents the rarely discussed collector's view of acquiring and bringing back to life a series of Dutch Golden Age landscape paintings. Alan Short's personal journey as a collector started with his efforts towards the identification and restitution of a painting by Dutch artist Philips Wouwerman (1619-68), which had been in his ......
This book will be the first significant publication on the oft cited and influential Danish architect Hans Christian Hansen. Hansen was a municipal architect with Copenhagen from 1934 - 1974. From a working-class background and unlucky in competitions, Hansen never established his own practice, but this did not limit his ability as an architect. ......
For Gordon and Kathy Bell, a visit to the Leach Pottery in St Ives in 1963 sparked a life-long fascination with ceramics and collecting. The fruits of their 60 years of acquisition are presented here: a publication celebrating the Bell Collection and placing it in the context of the period in which it was initiated and developed. Centred on the ......
Five Centuries of Scottish Art has its roots in Duncan Macmillan's seminal book Scottish Art 1460-1990, which received many accolades including the Saltire Prize as Scottish book of the year. Now fully updated, this ambitious publication celebrates Scotland's singular place in the history of art and examines how the twists and turns of its ......
