The charming world of Miss Maggie's Kitchen brings a mixture of refined classic French style with a modern twist, for perfect, effortless entertaining. Heloïse Brion's early life was rhythmed by mealtimes-from her childhood in Florida, where her mother proudly upheld the tradition of the French family dinner, to summers spent in the Pyrenees where her grandmother cooked over a wood-fire oven. Her passion for food-always respectful of the seasons and the origins of her products-followed her back to France where she pursed a career in fashion. What initially began as a whimsical pastime turned into Miss Maggie's Kitchen, her brand that blends cooking, travel, and lifestyle in a perfect alchemy. Her innate talent for style and entertaining stems from her informal American approach to life mixed with her inherent French flair. Here, Brion shares more than eighty laid-back recipes for every occasion, including her beautiful table settings that are festive and welcoming. Her simple, authentic, and tasty cuisine includes sweet potato crostini, summer tomato pizza, veal stew, pistachio and clementine cake, and lavender lemonade. Brion's husband, photographer Christophe Roué, captures the charm of Miss Maggie's Kitchen where retro and modern culminate in the ultimate comfortable elegance.
Christian Bérard worked freely in many artistic circles and fields, as a painter, designer of theater and film sets and costumes, fashion designer, interior designer, masterful draftsman, and colorist. His iconic drawings epitomized the Paris fashion world and graced the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Women's Wear Daily in the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing his eccentric and colorful life of encounters and artistic partnerships with the greatest creatives of his time-Jean-Michel Frank, Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Boris Kochno-this book positions Bérard in his rightful place in the center of Parisian art world in the 1930s and 1940s. The monograph includes more than two hundred of his paintings, drawings, photographs, intimate correspondence, and interior decorations, along with portraits of Bérard by Cartier Bresson, Horst, and Schall.
Nestled in a spectacular botanical garden with stunning views on the Mediterranean, the idyllic Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc has attracted scintillating international guests for 150 years.
"Simplicity and creativity. Modernity and tradition. Bringing aesthetics to technology, elegance to color, crafting harmony and rejecting discomfort. That is my ambition."Known the world over for her spectacular interiors for private residences and luxury hotels and restaurants, Sybille de Margerie has mastered the art of fine detail with elegance for over thirty years. Each project has its own identity, and her masterful designs generate emotions by creating spaces that are in harmony with their geographical locations and cultural origins. Inspired by history and great artists, de Margerie creates a language of textures that brings together the applied and decorative arts. Her interiors are refined yet distinctly livable, opulent and effortless, sophisticated and, at the same time, fluid and functional.In eight breathtaking chapters, this book celebrates a way of living that blends tradition and innovation with a distinctly French eye for luxury.
This panorama of the best of international contemporary design features emblematic works by the iconic designers of the Galerie kreo.A retrospective of groundbreaking creativity, this volume offers an overview of contemporary design from the innovative Galerie kreo where, for the past twenty years, internationally renowned designers have produced, exhibited, and distributed their works, perpetually pushing the boundaries on the theoretical and practical use of objects.Founded in 1999 by Clémence and Didier Krentowski as a place for contemporary designers to experiment, the Paris- and London-based galleries today remain firmly rooted in modernity, while simultaneously facilitating the development of design and designers who question both the past and future of design.Pieces produced with Galerie kreo by the world's most exciting modern designers-from Marc Newson, Hella Jongerius, and Konstantin Grcic to Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec-are presented alongside pivotal moments in design history, placing the artists into context. This volume traces more than one hundred exhibitions held at Galerie kreo, where important designers and their emblematic works have defined the gallery's highly innovative approach, and charted the arc of contemporary design history.An interview with the gallery's founders, an illustrated retrospective of their exhibitions, and tributes by Galerie kreo's key companions-including philosopher Christian Schlatter, design experts Marco Romanelli and Johanna Agerman Ross, and artist Bertrand Lavier-weave together the story of this unique design laboratory where a culture of innovation inspired new solutions in form and technique.
Helena Rubinstein''s remarkable life--from the inception of her beauty empire to the legacy she left behind--is celebrated in this comprehensive book that retraces her inspiring story.Helena Rubinstein was the first to establish the link between beauty and science, at a time when makeup was worn only by actresses and prostitutes. Progressive and a feminist, she made beauty accessible, using cosmetics as a means of emancipation.A daring pioneer, she founded a world-famous cosmetics empire with intelligence, courage, intuition, and business acumen. Her visionary marketing and publicity campaigns secured her brand''s success, and she left behind one hundred branches in forty countries and 30,000 employees. Until the end of her life, the world''s richest woman remained faithful to her humble Polish‒Jewish roots and proud of her Yiddish accent.This illustrated biography recounts Rubinstein''s life and legacy--the path to building her empire, her extensive art collection, her fascination with fashion and jewelry, and her groundbreaking achievements in launching the modern beauty revolution.
Bruno Decharme¿s art brut collection includes 5000 works by 300 artists, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In 1999, he opened his collection to the public and founded the ABCD Association (art brut connaissance & diffusion), a research center.
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894¿1986) is a master French photographer. The Fondation Jacques Henri Lartigue, established by his widow Florette, houses, conserves, and promotes the master photographer¿s extensive archives that include more than 120,000 photos, 7,000 diary pages, and 1,500 paintings.
Marc-Antoine Coulon creates illustrations for luxury clients such as Dior, Cartier, Jean-Paul Gautier, and Givenchy. His work regularly appears in magazines such as Vogue, Town and Country, Vanity Fair, Madame Figaro, and Elle. He illustrated the Vogue Paris Coloring Book in 2018. An exhibition of his work, Unapologetic Lines, was held from August 2018¿January 2019 at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta. Ines de la Fressange, model and designer, is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Parisian Chic (Flammarion, 2011).
An elegant volume that explores Dior''s long history of creativity, beauty, and success through a celebration of one of our most profound emotions. "Women, with their ever-sharp instincts, understood that I not only wanted to make them more beautiful, but happier too." --Christian Dior Since 1947, through its haute couture and fragrance collections, the House of Dior has enhanced the lives of women by bringing them moments of resplendent beauty. On the radiant faces of Dior''s models and muses, and through the exuberance of its creative studios and runway shows, joy shines like a bouquet of fireworks and luminous smiles. Through this emblematic selection of iconic illustrations and behind-the-scenes images from fashion shows and workshops, this beautifully crafted volume traces Dior''s recurring themes of creativity, the inspiration of nature, friendship, and success. Drawing from Dior''s own archives and from those of fashion''s greatest photographers, the book presents privileged moments graced by the women and men of Dior who express the house''s eternal joie de vivre. An inspiring text drawing from literature, philosophy, and Dior''s creative history, celebrates the many facets of an exalted state of being, providing the unique perspective that resides at the heart of this beautiful book.
My Little Paris (mylittleparis.com) is the source for the most unusal and interesting things to do in Paris, from single table restaurants to clandestine poetry clubs. Their team of writers, creatives, scouts, photographers, developers, videographers, engineers, account managers, and an illustrator share one common goal: to surprise. They published My Little Paris: The Best Kept Parisian Secrets in 2011.
This in-depth presentation of the art of the garden--from historical styles to contemporary materials-- is an essential reference for garden aficionados around the world.The Domaine of Château-sur-Loire--a fifteenth-century UNESCO World Heritage site--has for centuries been prided for its exquisite gardens. Once a preferred retreat for kings and members of the nobility, it has been a center for the art of the garden for the past decade and, since 1992, has also hosted the International Garden Festival, which features a series of creative exhibitions devoted to landscape art, and exploring science, technology, and art with poetry and inventiveness, amid the vibrant Loire Valley landscapes and eighty-acre gardens.Throughout the year, the château displays temporary and permanent exhibitions, which have featured works by the likes of Andy Goldsworthy, Jannis Kounellis, and Sheila Hicks, among others. Key elements that define each of the great gardening traditions--Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English, and French, are explained and trends that draw upon the five senses--light and shade, sound, fragrance, taste, and texture--provide inspiration for the home gardener. This volume, both a guide to the art of the garden and an homage to the château itself, is a rich resource on gardens and gardening in all of its forms, tracing the history of the prestigious garden festival for the first time in book form, alongside the Domaine''s breathtaking story, whose magic will continue to inspire generations to come.
Jacques Moulin is the chief architect for numerous French heritage sites, including Versailles. Francis Hammond has contributed to many books including Versailles: A Private Invitation, Historic Houses of Paris, and A Day at Versailles. Yves Carlier, general curator at Versailles and specialist in sixteenth to nineteenth-century French decorative arts and design, wrote A Day at Versailles.
A major monograph dedicated to contemporary French designer, sculptor, and painter Hubert Le Gall. French artist Hubert Le Gall's work defies classification by genre or artistic movement-he seamlessly blends sculpture with design in a unique style born out of his singular imagination. Over the past twenty years, Le Gall gained international renown through numerous exhibitions and is featured in galleries around the world, from London to Shanghai and from New York to Beirut. This monograph is a curation of the artist's work by Pamela Mullin, who, over many years, has become one of his most devoted collectors. Their relationship is grounded in the juncture where their common interests and different perspectives as artist and collector combine. Their shared passion for joyful and cultivated yet offbeat creations is evident in this selection of Le Gall's key creations, most of which were photographed in situ at Mullin's seventeenth-century manor in Saint- Calais, Normandy. These works demonstrate Le Gall's exceptional craftsmanship in his use of noble materials such as bronze, the simultaneously naturalistic and sculptural style of their lines, and their references to art and decorative art history. From the commanding trumeau, created especially for Mullin, to the many decorative guéridon tables, chandeliers, "flower tables," sculptural vases, screens, and other commodes, each one of his creations is at home within the world of the French Classical-style estate. They evoke Le Gall's numerous sources of inspiration, which include the perfection of Pompeian relics, the sophistication of eighteenth-century furnishings, the imaginative freedom of the Art Nouveau movement, but also Pop Art, culminating in pieces that are firmly rooted in the present.
With camera in hand, master photographer Robert Doisneau crisscrossed Paris to capture intimate moments with star musicians such as Eartha Kitt in a jazz club, Django Reinhardt at home, and Yehudi Menuhin backstage, or with locals at a neighborhood dance or jamming together in a brass band. He was commissioned for portraits of Georges Brassens, Juliette Gréco, Charles Aznavour, or Claude François, and he immortalized a new generation of musicians in the 1980s including Rita Mitsouko, Les Négresses Vertes, Pierre Schaeffer, and Pierre Boulez. Doisneau's lifelong friend Maurice Baquet with his cello formed a photogenic duo on impromptu outings that gave rise to iconic images. Doisneau's passion for the energy and joy inherent in the music world comes alive on the page in images that cover the musical spectrum, from classical and jazz to be-bop to the roots of modern rap and alternative rock. This book-curated by the photographer's granddaughter to accompany an exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris that will include music by Moriarty and scenography by Stephan Zimmerli- features more than one hundred photographs, many previously unpublished, that showcase the artist's mastery in editing, special effects, photomontage, collage, photo distortions, and splits.
Pierre Sauvage's first book introduces his French Bohemian-chic philosophy for living with style through his contemporary interiors-both urban and country- and recipes for elegant entertaining.
Featuring rare images from Pierre Passebon's personal collection, this volume celebrates Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood's iconic femme fatale, as immortalized by master photographers including Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Milton Greene, George Hurrell, Antony Armstrong-Jones, and others. An active participant in her photo sessions, she constructed her own unique image of charm and seduction. Dietrich's life was devoted to glamour for over forty years: in stage performances, on screen, and in concert. The public loved her. A modern and transgressive woman, she didn't hesitate to break the rules by dressing in menswear (she was Yves Saint Laurent's muse for his iconic tuxedos) or by being seen in public with her husband and her lovers (both male and female). Dietrich also refused to bend to Hollywood conventions around motherhood by raising her daughter in the limelight. Her beauty, style, and elegance made her the archetypal femme fatale, but it was Dietrich's unwavering confidence, gender fluidity, and firm stand against Nazism that made her a revolutionary and an icon. This volume reveals how her fascination lies not only in the way she inspired the greatest photographers and fashion designers of her time, but in how she continues to embody the essence of glamour and female independence today.
At last, model and designer Ines de la Fressange and fashion journalist Sophie Gachet have curated an essential guide of sartorial advice for men, based on looks from their stylish entourage.
This volume recounts the centuries-long history of Villa Balbiano, a magnificent architectural masterpiece meticulously restored by Jacques Garcia.
Celebrating 270 years of unrivaled dedication to luxury horology, this volume extols the enduring influence of Swiss watchmaking legend Vacheron Constantin.>Featuring new photography that captures the brand's artistry in magnificent detail, this book provides exclusive access to Vacheron Constantin's archives and workshops and offers readers a rare and privileged view of its legacy.
This handsome gift volume celebrates a world-famous temple to taxidermy and the natural world, where extraordinary curiosities highlight the intersection of science and art. With an abundance of preserved flora and fauna, taxidermy, and otherworldly creations, the Deyrolle boutique is dedicated to showcasing the beauty of nature. A family venture founded in the spirit of discovery, Deyrolle has a 185-year history that is a Pandora’s box of scientific and aesthetic discoveries. Deyrolle flourished under the nineteenth-century passion for natural history, garnering celebrity devotees from Dalí to Nabokov, and quickly established itself as a center for education and research. A vocal advocate of sustainability and responsible business practices in the fields of taxidermy and entomology, Deyrolle works only with creatures that have expired from natural causes. Raising awareness for causes such as World Rhino Day, Deyrolle combines science and art, lightheartedness and engagement. This book provides fascinating insight into the history and day-to-day workings of this unique Parisian institution.
On the fortieth anniversary of Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard’s romantic union, this volume traces four decades of artistic collaboration between the photographer and painter known as Pierre et Gilles. This year-by-year retrospective of their vast oeuvre, accompanied by an incisive essay by art critic Éric Troncy, showcases the genesis and development of their sublime, audacious, and explicitly confected fusion of photography and painting. Highly sophisticated and shamelessly sexy, their art—stylized, idealized painted photographs—synthesizes tropes drawn from celebrity and mainstream gay culture with timeless themes of religion, mythology, and beauty, and many works feature international stars including Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Dita Von Teese, Kylie Minogue, Karl Lagerfeld, Mick Jagger, and Iggy Pop. The book is available in a trade edition and in a limited art edition of 200 copies that features a signed and numbered limited edition print created especially for the book and presented in a deluxe clamshell case.
The Baron de Cabrol¿s legendary scrapbooks capture a golden era of glamour and reveal the sheer elegance and decadence of the cosmopolitan café society.
A collection of essays, paintings, and portraits that give a fascinating insight into the life and legacy of impressionist artist Frédéric Bazille.
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