The Great Cities in History author-gilles-de-chabaneix A dazzling array of illustrations

A dazzling array of illustrations includes paintings and photographs of both historic and contemporary textiles and a broad collection of textiles being created

and now reinterpreted to become the motifs for brand new garments

Russian art went through a series of dramatic changes

alongside rare and previously unseen images from Daniels’s own archive of photographs and working drawings

The Great Cities in History author-gilles-de-chabaneix A dazzling array of illustrationsA work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of humankind Babylon and Nineveh, Athens and Rome, Istanbul and Venice, Timbuktu and