Rideau (curtain) by Nicolas Alquin and Mathilde de Torhout
Text in French by Nicolas Alquin illustrated with 5 photographs by Mathilde de Torhout of Alquin's sculptures. With an original ink drawing by Nicolas Alquin in frontispiece. Printed on 800 copies on vergé paper. The first 50 copies are signed and numbered by the authors and contain an original drawing by N. Alquin.
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"Tom Ford" by Bridget Foley, Tom Ford, Anna Wintour
Tom Ford has become one of fashion's great icons. In the past decade, he transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world. His designs have increased sales at Gucci tenfold and have helped build the Gucci brand into the luxury goods conglomerate that it is today. Ford brought a hard-edged style synonymous with 21st century glamour to his clothes, and Hollywood sat up and took note.
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Eloge du Jaune (Praise Yellow) Jocelyne François
Short and fascinating text by Jocelyne Francois "Eloge du Jaune" (Praise Yellow). She makes us share her praise of "yellow" feelings and memories that she associates with this color. The author explains: "Obviously, yes, there is desire in my books; but it must be verified by experience, looked through my Imagination, and this was nowhere better defined than in a very short text, which is titled Praise yellow".
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Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is a comprehensive portrayal of the finest built architecture from around the world completed since the year 2000. Divided into six world regions, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local trends in architecture for a wide range of users. The geographical contexts for twenty-first century architectural production are explored in a global framework presented in accessible graphic formats. Each of the six world regions is introduced by an in-depth look at their unique urban and architectural issues. This statistical data has been researched and analyzed by a team of from the London School of Economics.
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Picasso Villers, Regards croisés
Catalogue of the collection "L'Enfance de l'art", published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso Villers, Regards croisés" at the Galerie Flak in Paris -in June and July 1998. The special encounter between the artist and the photographer. Beautiful photographs reproductions inside.
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"Vermeer's Family Secrets" by Benjam Binstock
Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In "Vermeer's Family Secrets", Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeer's life that Binstock brings to bear on Vermeer's art for the first time; he also offers new interpretations of several key documents pertaining to Vermeer that have been misunderstood.
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"Lives of the Artists" by Calvin Tomkins
Whether writing about Jasper Johns or Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman or Richard Serra, Calvin Tomkins shows why it is both easier and more difficult to make art today. If art can be anything, where do you begin?
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"Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript" by Bob Dylan
Surfacing for the first time after more than forty years, Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric is a remarkable, long-lost manuscript written by Bob Dylan in the 1960s, inspired by renowned photographer Barry Feinstein's portraits of Tinseltown. These twenty-three prose poems are thoughtprovoking, witty, and thoroughly unexpected observations of a bygone era, and through the lens of Feinstein's camera they speak volumes about the faces and places that have graced the City of Angels.
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"Chagall: A Biography" by Jackie Wullschlager
"When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is." As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. Yet behind this triumph lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, frustration, lost love, exile—and above all the miracle of survival.
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