Seats of London

A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

172 kr

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Beskrivning

Moquette is the carpet-likefabric covering the seats on London’s Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains– and here is a brilliantly colourful guide to all its patterns.Since this colourful andidiosyncratic little book was first published in 2019 it has gone on to sellover s 13,000 copies over 7 printings, while the London Transport Museum’smoquette merchandise – everything from socks to sofas – has become a must-havestyle accessory.In the meantime, TfL hascontinued to design beautiful new patterns for its new rolling stock – and evento commemorate the 90th anniversary of Victoria Coach Station. Theirappeal is not just London-wide but worldwide: no other city is adorned in sucha vibrant way.This new, revised and expandededition has 16 more pages, new moquettes and features, as well as all thehistoric designs from the London Transport Museum’s archive.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-05
Mått:160 x 160 x 13 mm
Vikt:410 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Safe Haven Books
ISBN:9781068516238

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Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
Fordon inom Sport, fritid och hobby
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Mer om författaren

Andrew Martin is author of the SundayTimes bestseller To the Sea by Train, as well as the Jim Stringerrailway crime novels. His detective thriller The Moquette Mystery isalso published by Safe Haven.

Recensioner i media

‘A wittily written book’, Twentieth-Century Society magazine’A little gem of a book and, as its title suggests, is intended to be used much like a wildlife field guide. I recommend this book as a charming introduction to railway design’, Text, the journal of the Textile Society’A delightful book on an intriguing facet of London Transport - a fascinating niche, and I found it much more compelling than, say, rivet-counting on Josher-bowed narrowboats or valve gear on GWR locomotives. All in all, Andrew Martin has written an intriguing book that has opened up a facet of London's transport to a wider audience and he easily succeeds in hitting his sitting target,’ Subterranea