Books Available for Order from The Museum Giftshop
The gift shop in The Fan Museum, Greenwich, carries a large variety of exhibition catalogues, reference books and works on fans. We will be delighted to post any items to you. Customers may order by telephone. The Fan Museum, Greenwich, accepts all major credit cards. The gift shop telephone number is: 020 8305 1441
Please note that the postage and packaging prices shown are for UK mainland delivery. Please telephone or email us for international delivery costs.
We list a selection of our catalogues below:
Advertising Fans
by Hélène Alexander
As society changed during the last years of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, so did the fan. Major social alterations are reflected in the size, shape, materials and decoration of the fan, not to mention its distribution and usage: most importantly it is no longer mostly an elite product but is available to many free of charge, as designs and materials are put to use by many different companies and services for the purposes of advertising.
Price £4.75
P&P £2.75
Cool
Presenting a Cooling Image: Photography by the Lafayette Studio of Bond Street and Fans from The Fan Museum, Greenwich
by Hélène Alexander and Russell Harris
Through expertly-restored photographs from the Lafayette Archive of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the beautifully-preserved fans from The Fan Museum, Greenwich, this book presents a parallel history of fans from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Year of 1897 to interbellum court portraits of 1925.
Price £20
P&P £2.75
A Touch of Dutch
Fans from the Royal House of Orange-Nassau
by Hélène Alexander and Fransje Hovinga-van Eijsden
A special exhibition at The Fan Museum of a wonderful selection of fans belonging to the Dutch royal family. Each fan is a very personal object, having been made, gifted, used and passed down from mother to daughter, for Queens Emma, Wilhelmina, Juliana, Beatrix and Princess Maxima. The fans in this royal collection comprise a variety of styles, but each reflects the taste of the lady who owned and enjoyed it. Indeed, two of the fans were painted by Queen Wilhelmina herself a highly proficient artist - as gifts to her mother, Queen Emma.
Price £10
P&P £2.75
A Fanfare for the Sun King
Unfolding Fans for Louis XIV
by Pamela Cowen
In this fascinating book, daily life and times at the court of the 'Sun King', including well-known figures such as Madames de Montespan and Maintenon, as well as other royal and court figures, visiting dignitaries and national events, are discussed in considerable detail. Many scenes are set in the grounds of Versailles and these are identified by the author, whose impeccable research provides the gossip 'straight from the horse's mouth'. All this is presented in the vehicle of the folding fan, which rose to prominence under Louis XIV. He inspired subject matter for painted fan leaves, and moreover imposed strict etiquette at court involving the use (and non-use) of fans.
Price £10
P&P £2.75
Imperial Fans from The Hermitage
Text compiled with the assistance of Julia Plotkinova, curator at the State Hermitage Museum, in charge of purses and other accessories.
Fans used by the Imperial court of Russia were seen by the public for the first time outside Russia, lent by the renowned State Hermitage Museum at St Petersburg for this exhibition at the Fan Museum, London. Unique fans associated with Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova, Alexander II and Maria Feodorovna can be seen in this catalogue: Russian royalty ordered fans from the best fan-makers of Western Europe, following the latest fashions as adopted by leading figures of the Imperial courts, as well as sometimes re-instating Russian dress by royal decree. Also included are some rare Russian fans.
Price £10
P&P £2.75
The Fan Museum
This book tells the story of the museum, from the beginnings of Hélène Alexander's collection of fans to the completion of the museum buildings, and also shows the principal pieces in The Fan Museum Trust's collection and the Hélène Alexander collection.
Price £7.95
P&P £2.75
The Fan Museum presents Pankha
Traditional Crafted Hand Fans of the Indian Subcontinent from the collection of Jatin Das
In the first exhibition of its kind to be held in the Fan Museum, Pankha (common word for hand fans in urban India) celebrates what is mostly the traditional craft of women at home in the villages and towns of India. Fixed fans, made of bamboo, palm leaf, wood, brass, cloth, plastic, velvet and lace are carefully embroidered with beads, frills, sequins and mirror pieces - to then be used for fanning relatives in the house, to fan fires on roadside snack stalls or to fan images of the god in the temple. Shapes are often traditional to particular regions. The fans featuring in this exhibition come from the collection of the eminent contemporary artist, Jatin Das, which is housed at the J D Centre of Art, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.
Price £4.50
P&P £2.75
Personal Treasures of the Tsars
from the Peterhof State Museum, St. Petersburg.
Peter the Great built a necklace of palaces near St Petersburg that truly justify his given name and of which the Peterhof is but one. In this catalogue, the reader can catch a glimpse not only of the exquisite treasures that Peter the Great and his successors collected at the Peterhof, but also of the more intimate lives, though fans and other beautiful personal objects.
Price £5.00
P&P £2.75
Royal Fans
Royal Fans commemorates HM The Queen's Golden Jubilee with fans from the Royal Collection, the collection of HM Queen Margarethe of Denmark, the Helene Alexander Collection and fans from many other personal collections. The exhibition celebrates the connections between the royal houses of Europe and the ways in which they are deeply intertwined on a personal level. Many of the fans were gifts from one royal house to another, and were often included in trousseaux, having been crafted by the finest fan-makers of the day.
Price £5.00
P&P £2.75
Fanning the Senses
Fanning the Senses washes scents of roses, jasmine, violets and many beautiful flowers over us. This exhibition is devoted to the sprays of perfumed flowers that were popular decoration for fans, many of which were impregnated with corresponding perfume: from European fans of the 17th to 20th centuries, to Japanese. The occasions of use and styles of featured fans, and indeed meaning of the flowers depicted, are many and varied. This Spring exhibition followed on from a popular previous exhibition, A Garden of Fans, commemorating the bicentenary of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Price £5.50
P&P £2.75
