הוצאת ASSOULINE
הספרים של הוצאת ASSOULINE
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Brainiacs have all the fun in this compendium of fashion intrigue, lore, who s who, and what s what. An entire century of designers, couturiers, and must-have looks parades between the covers. Stump your friends and test your knowledge with questions and answers, quizzes, and matching games. Accompa...
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This is the ultimate book on the sport of polo. Polo is not only a sport, it is a state of mind, a lifestyle, a value system, a philosophy of life. Polo is about courage, strength, and speed. Beauty, elegance, and allure. This stunning volume explores all. Players of polo, whether from India, Englan...
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While never clearly defined as a movement in the West, monochrome art found in Korea a generation of artists who combined Asian philosophies with Western training to create art that explores color, examines surface, expresses texture and nuance, and holds a wide variety of emotions, intentions, and ...
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Ask people who have been there, and they will all tell you India is like no other place in the world, a land that stirs every one of the five senses and stays in your heart forever. It is this India that brought together three friends, Waris Ahluwalia, Mortimer Singer and Tina Bhojwani to raise fund...
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The ultimate task of the architect is to dream. - Oscar Niemeyer. Architect Oscar Niemeyer rose to prominence at Le Corbusier's side, but ultimately swerved from the hard, straight lines of traditional modernism to forge a parallel track of the movement a track that mimics the crescendoes and denoue...
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At once glamorous and mysterious, the WASP lifestyle has influenced countless trends in the worlds of fashion, home design, and pop culture. Today, one no longer has to be a WASP to embrace its casual-yet-elegant attitude and sense of style. With lively text and over one hundred images from world-re...
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Design for a living world asks us to think about the products we use -where they come from, how they are made, and the impacts they have on our planet. The Nature Conservancy invited ten designers to create new objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Wood, plants, wool, and...
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The act of wishing for protection, for fortune, for something new and grand is an act of possibility. Wishes and their talismans have long been a part of cultures around the world, and no talisman holds quite so much universal appeal as the penny. The Penny charts the trajectory of a single penny th...
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Aside from clothes, the most immediate extension of the human body is the decor in which it evolves. From interior architecture to interior life, the distance is often slight. It is to this coming together of the mental and the ornamental, as well as to the dialogue between form and content, that th...
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With more than two hundred richly colored, painstakingly detailed antique illustrations, Lost Fish offers a chance to meditate on the dazzling beauty of marine life before it is too late. Culled from rare Ânineteenth-century scientific volumes, these stunning prints testify to the curiosity about...
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Park Seo-Bo is a trailblazer in contemporary Korean art, having helped introduce the West s concept of modern art to his fellow countrymen in the 1950s. The recipient of numerous awards throughout Asia and the subject of more than a dozen major exhibitions including a major retrospective of his work...
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Starting in the twentieth century, the American accessory designer looked to Europe and then said, I can do better. In a book commissioned by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and edited by Candy Pratts Price, with writing by Jessica Glasscock and Art Tavee, their achievements are revealed...
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Isaac Mizrahis Mushroom Truffle Spaghetti, Carolina Herreras Pommes Toupinel, Mark Eckos Adults Only Chocolate Chip Cookies, Derek Lams Yellowtail Crudo, John Varvatoss Calaloo Soup food can be fashionable too! Published with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and with a foreword by...
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The great wines captivate like lovers with their harmony and complexity and especially their rarity. But what are the greatest among them? In this compact volume, international wine expert Michel Dovaz identifies the finest wines of our times and recounts how they came about. From the legendary 1900...
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Big-eyed, blonde, and beautiful, Barbie took over the world in 1959 with little more than a white-and-black striped bathing suit and a pair of high heels. Today, Mattel sells three Barbies a second, and children in more than one hundred and fifty countries know her name.Now, on her fiftieth annivers...
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In the same series as the bestselling American Fashion and American Fashion Accessories, Assouline and the Council of Fashion Designers of America present American Fashion Menswear, the most authoritative and exciting book to date on the evolution of menswear in our country over the past century. Fr...
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$136 million for a Klimt, $71.7 million for an Andy Warhol... It s not that art is expensive, but rather that money has become cheap for certain collectors Russian oligarchs, Chinese, and American hedge-fund managers. Collections are being redistributed to new fortunes around the world. Sophisticate...
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Piero Fornasetti: A Conversation between Philippe Starck and Barnaba Fornasetti (Memoire)
מאת Brigitte Fitoussi
Piero Fornasetti is often described as a visionary. A Milan artist, Fornasetti was at the same time a painter, sculptor, designer, craftsman, and an engraver of art books. In his lifetime, he created more than 11,000 items, most of which are one-of-a kind. It is actually said that his production of ...
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Geoffrey Beene was fiercely independent, radical, subversive, and loved by ladies who lunched and underground scenesters alike. As an adventurous artist and an experimental designer, Mr. Beene (as his friends called him) helped define modern American fashion in the latter twentieth century. His desi...
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Shapka, Catherine the Great, Caviar, Maria Sharapova, Faberge, Erte, Kalashnikov, Pravda, Alexander Rodchenko, Yuri Gagarin, Baboushka, Leon Bakst, Leo Tolstoy, Kazimir Malevich, Anastasia, Tovarisch, Peter the Great, Lolita, Natalie Paley, Kokoshnik, Olga Kurilenko, Bistro... With short, witty text...
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The great Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne spent most of his life working in the the beautiful surroundings of Aix-en-Provence, where he was born in 1839. Today, the Jas de Bouffan, the Bibemus quarry, the Chateau-Noir, the Mont Sainte-Victoire, and the Estaque are all famous as the titular mo...
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A valuable work of art is today s new intellectual currency. Modern art draws attention from a new jet set: for media moguls, hedge-fund managers, and Hollywood darlings, collecting is the entree into an exclusive global community. Internationally vaunted art dealers Philippe Segalot and Franck Gira...
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George Lois is advertising s most famous art director. He founded the creative revolution that spawned modern advertising, as his iconoclastic talent created icons dramatizing the problems, solutions, foibles, and promises of American life. Astute media critics recognize Lois as a pioneering avant-g...
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Yuppies, Yippies, Jet Setters, Bright Young Things, Generation X, Generation Y . . . and now the Gypset. Fusing the ease and carefree lifestyle of a gypsy with the sophistication of the jet set, the Gypsetters are artists, surfers, designers, and bon vivants who live and work around the globe, from ...
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I may be what you call a permanent tourist no longer living beneath the sky that I was born under, but always on a quest or a journey, writes Angella Nazarian. As an eleven-year-old Iranian Jew, she was forced by increasing violence from her childhood cocoon in Tehran. But this first journey would p...
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A chic volume devoted to the career of one of the brightest, most successful and imitated international designers.In a 20-year career, Marc Jacobs has soared from whiz-kid extraordinaire and the toast of New York s Parsons School of Design to one of the brightest, most successful, and most imitated ...
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Gin Fizz, Gimlet, French 75, Brandy Alexander, Pisco Sour, Singapore Sling, Sidecar, Dark and Stormy, Caipirinha, Margarita, Matador, Bloody Mary, White Russian, Vesper, Greyhound, Kamikaze, Missouri Mule, Pimms Cup, Fuzzy Navel, Kir Royale, Sazerac, Presbyterian, Man O War . . . Assouline's Vintage...
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Following the success of Girls, Assouline presents a photographic tribute by the talented Pamela Hanson evoking the moods and subtle intentions that are boys. Between childhood and adulthood, a boy incarnates over a period of time drenched with fresh seduction and tender glamour. Pamela Hanson perfe...
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Effortless, imperceptible service and hospitality are the ultimate luxury, and at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, your welcome is as warm and enveloping as a Mediterranean summer night. The spectacular setting is only enhanced by the courteous and ubiquitous hotel staff, who are there to anticipate your ...
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The home of the pope and the seat of the Holy See, the Vatican is a unique entity, a sovereign city-state that shelters some of most sacred treasures in the world within its hundred and ten acres. The story of this hallowed ground is inextricable from the history of the Catholic Church. But this boo...
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Eating and sleeping are the only activities thatshould be allowed to interrupt a man s enjoymentof his cigar. To ignite a cigar to watch the glossy tobaccotransmute into silvery ash and blue smoke andto savor its complex and lingering flavors isto practice a ritual that has been performedfor centuri...
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From Big Sur to Boston, this enticing volume follows in the footsteps of Jim Morrison, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams, Al Capone, Clint Eastwood, Esther Williams, and some of America s most famous personalities and hotel guests. Which famous star stayed at the Biltmore in Coral Gables? Where did...
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Including more than three centuries of drawings culled from the rare books library of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, each page in Botanicals explodes with rich colors and lifelike details. Exquisite flowers, delicate fruits, and exuberant butterflies are among the jewels of nature that co...
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In the rich and eclectic world of interiors, it is the designers who remind us that the spaces we inhabit can be timeless works of art. Colorful and lushly photographed, INSPIRED STYLES is an anthology of the ideas, creative palettes, and select works of fifteen exemplars of interior style, each of ...
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Jutting proudly out of the Mediterranean Sea, like a miracle of nature, Capri is one of the worlds chicest destinations the European pleasure island. It is a place where well-tanned Italians joyfully share the islands beauty with celebrities and emphatic island lovers: from limoncello, the native di...
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Following two magnificent Assouline volumes on Paris and New York, photographer Jean-Michel Berts turns his lens to Japan in The Light of Tokyo. This stunning collection is a tribute to the grandeur of urban architecture the blend of the modern and the traditional at the peak of daybreak. The evocat...
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