Bordering the coastlines of eight countries, the Red Sea is a melting pot of civilizations, faiths and hopes. With unique coral reefs and diverse underwater life, the untouched nature and unmatched biodiversity thrive in the aquatic environment and have led to the creation of several preservation initiatives. As the setting of many epic journeys in literature, the Red Sea is imbued with a spirit of adventure. Photography by Aline Coquelle, Ameen Qaisaran and Afnan Alkhayat, Mohammed Al Sharif, and Yarob Bashrahil.
From serene desert expanses to coastal regions teeming with flora and fauna, the many wonders of Saudi Arabia are explored in our latest collection. This six-book series features original works by premier photographers and artists. Each volume uncovers a unique treasure of the Kingdom, whether an ancient city or historic tribe.
An endless expanse of shimmering waters paired with unmatched Greek hospitality awaits visitors to the islands of the Aegean Sea. Each island is home to a unique spirit and mythology. From Patmos (a favorite of Aga Khan) to Hydra (which captivated Henry Miller, Leonard Cohen and Sophia Loren), the islands are imbued with a seductive sense of history, tradition and adventure. Several films over the decades have been filmed on them, including Boy on a Dolphin (1957) on Hydra, The Big Blue (1988) on Amorgos and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) on Santorini. Sources of inspiration for millennia, the ancient ruins, cliffside monasteries and volcanic rims are all can't-miss sights.
Venturing on an Odyssey of their own, the author and the photographer boarded a traditional Greek sailboat and set out to capture the calming atmosphere, quintessential characters and breathtaking architecture of these gems of the Aegean. A spectacular journey re-created in the pages of Greek Islands.
Nestled in Switzerland's alpine Engadin Valley, St. Moritz stands on its own amidst a sea of celebrated ski resorts in that it has long maintained an elusive allure. The winter home of personalities from Gunter Sachs and Gianni Agnelli to Sofia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon, and Claudia Schiffer, there are few places in the world that manage to unite so many of the top names in cinema, art, and fashion all in one place, year after year. Author Dora Lardelli takes the reader on a journey through Chanel and Hitchcock's favorite haunts and the hidden parties at Badrutt's Palace where royalty goes to play, without forgetting the natural beauty, village charm and architectural mastery that define it. St. Moritz also takes readers on a majestic tour of its special events, from Winter Olympics to the annual Snow Polo World Cup, as well as the summertime Jazz Festival and the British Classic Car Meeting. In St. Moritz creatives and royals share skiwassers slope-side on the sheepskin benches of El Paradiso, pause to sip champagne on long strolls around its frozen, crystalline lake and enjoy coffee and confections at the centuries old Hanselmann. St. Moritz has never lost its inimitable appeal, and will continue to reign as an elegant hideaway for all those who have come to call it a home away from home.
For a century, Columbia Pictures has shone as a beacon in the cinematic world, symbolized by the Torch Lady of Columbia. From classics like His Girl Friday to modern masterpieces like Taxi Driver, the studio has left an indelible mark on film history. Sam Wasson's recounting of the studio's journey, complemented by Tom Rothman's personal insights, celebrates its triumphs and resilience. Columbia Pictures: 100 Years of Cinema guides readers through the studio's diverse catalog with enlightening texts by Chris Cotonou, showcasing its impact on cinema and the talents who shaped its legacy.
When it comes to glamour and high style on the seas, there's nothing more captivating than the Aquarama. Dreamed up by the legendary Carlo Riva, the run-about wooden speed has become an icon of Italian design and the Riva Aquarama book, edited by Assouline, celebrates its 60th Anniversary. Beloved for its clean lines, mahogany, glistening chrome details and signature robin's egg-blue and cream upholstery, the Aquarama reflected la dolce vita optimism of early-'60s Italy; it's impossible to picture the glittering Côte d'Azur and coasts of Europe without visions of endless summers spent lounging on the back of the boat in the warm summer sun, and the gentle roar of the engine as the Aquarama cuts through the surf.
The Riva icon enjoyed a mythical status and was beloved by movie stars, heads of state and royalty-everyone from Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor, Gunter Sachs and the royal family of Monaco, among countless other luminaries, have been enchanted by the Aquarama's spell. Of the about 760 completed Aquaramas made in the Sarnico shipyard, Riva experts estimate around 650 are still in existence, which only adds to the boat's legendary status. But more than just a trophy, the Aquarama is fiercely beloved by its owners and enthusiasts alike-it's not just a boat, but the realization of a dream. In this exceptional tribute to the Aquarama, author Michael Verdon tells the story of the legendary boat and brings to life its dolce vita charm. The book is also offered in a special edition, presented in a luxury mahogany box that is crafted to express the beauty of the Aquarama's magnificent hull. This special edition offers owners, collectors and enthusiasts alike a piece of the Riva dream.
Conjuring images of exotic global destinations and golden beaches, clandestine rendezvous on opulent yachts, and star-studded parties in palatial mansions, the words «jet set» were once the epitome of soigné worldly glamour. Swans: Legends of the Jet Society captures the spirit of this world, the last vestiges of a leisured and cultivated age, a world of taste and culture, elegance and beauty. From bygone aristocracy to modern mega-wealthy moguls, this stunning volume regales with escapades of travel, money, romance, and adventure.
From late 1991 to early 1992, shortly before his death, Irish-British painter Francis Bacon participated in rare interviews and sittings with French photographer Francis Giacobetti. Giacobetti captured eerie images inspired by Bacon's unsettling works. These photos, along with previously unreleased Bacon paintings, were exhibited in June 2003 at Marlborough Gallery in London. This volume presents the photographs and excerpts from their conversations, offering an intimate portrait of the disconcerting artist.
Célébrées par la littérature, la musique ou le cinéma, elles le sont ici par la photographe américaine, comme des Lolitas version troisième millénaire. Mario Testino, Sonia Rykiel, Christy Turlington, Yohji Yamamoto, Richard Gere, Oscar de la Renta, Serge Lutens donnent leur définition du mot : girl.
Traité à travers un aspect exclusivement culturel, le blanc sert tour à tour de propos à la création pour l'architecture, la photographie, le design, la mode, l'art contemporain ou classique. Un recueil de références sur l'art et plus particulièrement sur la modernité.
Retrace la vie et l'oeuvre d'Alexey Brodovitch, directeur artistique de«Harper's Bazaar», évoque sa collaboration avec R. Avedon et A. Kertész et son rôle d'instructeur auprès d'une génération de photographes et designers.
The Missoni family lives life in color. They didn't just revolutionize knitwear; they forged a lifestyle that, like their fashion, blends elegance with enthusiasm and spontaneity with sophistication. Missoni style is recognized and admired all over the world and is collected by fashionistas and museums alike. This same streak of easy glamour also inspires Missoni family's entertaining, and their dinner parties have become one of the most coveted invitations of fashion week. Lush and informal at the same time, a Missoni feast is not just a kaleidoscope of style with four generations of family wearing Missoni - it's a kaleidoscope of tastes, scents, and colors.
And whether the meal is for twenty or two hundred, it always features family recipes curated for the season and for the occasion, recipes which have now become legendary. And just as Missoni fans around the world collect the brand's iconic zigzags, Francesco Maccapani Missoni, the son of Missoni's creative director, Angela Missoni, collects family recipes - and as it turns out, their cuisine is just as singular as their style. Francesco has a healthy respect for tradition, and with The Missoni Family Cookbook, he chronicles the Missoni culinary tradition, making these delicious, well-guarded family recipes available to the home cook for the first time. This book invites you right into the home of the family known so well through fashion so that you can join the Missonis a tavola.
In Japan, cooking often bears aesthetic value, and the making of sushi is exalted as one of the finest culinary crafts. In line with this ideal of food as art, the Japanese often employ the word shokunin, loosely defined as artisan, to refer to highly skilled sushi masters. Connoting excellence and devotion to one's craft, this title is reserved for those who approach their work with an artistic eye and seemingly spiritual sense of purpose, or ikigai.
In this stunning monograph, James Beard Award-winning photographer and author Andrea Fazzari profiles twenty of the most celebrated sushi masters on the Japanese food scene. Through a combination of striking photography and intimate essays, each chapter introduces readers to a new master and restaurant, capturing the aesthetics, philosophy, and level of dedication that illustrates their status as the world's finest culinary shokunin.
A must-have for sushi enthusiasts-and for anyone interested in fine food culture-Sushi Shokunin is the first book of its kind of the most revered sushi masters and restaurants. Fazzari invites readers to explore the rarefied world of top shokunin who view sushi making not only as a career, but also as a way of life.
À l'heure où sonne le glas de la cigarette, il fallait rendre hommage au siècle qui l'a promue, puis glorifiée, avant de lui déclarer la guerre...
Qui se souvient encore qu'il y a quelques années à peine, il était normal de fumer une cigarette dans un avionoe Combien de personnes publiques osent aujourd'hui se faire photographier en fumant, alors que poser avec une cigarette a fait partie de l'attitude chic et incontournable adoptée par plusieurs générations de stars. Née à la fin du XIXe siècle et diabolisée en ce début du XXIe, l'histoire de la cigarette coïncide avec un siècle de glamour et d'industrie. Et alors que pendant plusieurs décennies fumer fut associé à la liberté, il faut reconnaître que l'usage de la cigarette est aujourd'hui considéré comme une provocation, voire une agression. No Smoking est une rétrospective sociale de la cigarette - de sa naissance à son apogée, et à sa chute.
Faites un voyage à travers l'oasis remarquable connue sous le nom d'AlUla, un paysage spectaculaire niché au fond des sables antiques du nord-ouest de l'Arabie saoudite. L'histoire de la vaste et fructueuse vallée d'AlUla, également connue sous le nom de Wadi al-Qura (vallée des villages), remonte à la période paléolithique, environ 200 000 avant notre ère, lorsque les humains s'y sont installés, aux populations modernes qui l'explorent. aujourd'hui. Présenté dans toute sa beauté, le nouveau titre de printemps d'Assouline, AlUla, guide les lecteurs à travers les montagnes escarpées de cette belle terre et ses canyons saisissants, une vallée fertile qui a formé un passage naturel pour les caravanes et les voyageurs sur la route commerciale de l'encens, avec des eaux souterraines abondantes et un sol qui a permis à de nombreux civilisations pour prospérer pendant des milliers d'années. Chaque page plonge dans la mystique ancienne de cette terre tout en mettant en évidence les personnes qui ont également laissé leur marque puissante sur la terre. Des chasseurs-cueilleurs préhistoriques aux Dadanites, aux Nabatéens, aux Romains, aux premiers musulmans, aux populations actuelles qui se sont mêlées et ont échangé des idées culturelles, AlUla regorge d'innombrables traces de sites séculaires, de langues, de culture et de prospérité économique.
In the latest body of work by author and photographer Claiborne Swanson Frank, the artist set out to explore what modern motherhood means in the 21st century. Turning her lens on 70 iconic families of mothers and children from such celebrated names as Delfina Figueras, Carolina Herrera, Lauren Santo Domingo, Anne Vyalitsyna, Aerin Lauder, and Patti Hansen, Swanson Frank's stunning portraits capture the emotional bonds and beauty that frame the primal relationship of a mother and her child. Complementing her work is a series of questions-and-answers, in which Swanson Frank delicately tasks each mother to look within themselves and express what being a mother truly means to them. Their answers, while exceedingly thoughtful and introspective, are also amusing, fascinating, and moving. Each one of these deeply intimate and stunning portraits will captivate and inspire readers as they embark on this profound journey that reminds us all of the power of motherhood and the great gift of love.
En tant que l'un des photographes les plus importants du XXe siècle, Cecil Beaton a contribué à inventer le culte de l'image de la célébrité tout en repoussant les limites de son art avec des techniques et une mise en scène innovantes. Au cours de ses décennies de carrière en tant que photographe pour Vogue et Vanity Fair, ainsi que correspondant de guerre britannique, Cecil Beaton a documenté des vies célèbres et quotidiennes, y compris la sienne, dans des dizaines d'albums retenus maintenant par Sotheby's London. Dans ces pages, reproduites ici pour la toute première fois, la vision intérieure de l'homme derrière la caméra occupe une place centrale. Composées de ses propres gravures et de coupures de magazines, journaux et affiches, ces pages constituent un enregistrement instructif de son processus de création. Son oeil célèbre se posa sur des personnalités de la société, des membres de la royauté, des danseurs, des acteurs, des hommes d'État et des indigènes vêtus de tenues de cérémonie, cueillant des rimes visuelles et des juxtapositions spirituelles. Feuilleter les pages, c'est entrer dans une fête fabuleuse et surréaliste où Tallulah Bankhead côtoie un buste de Voltaire et un portrait de Stravinsky; où le premier voyage de Beaton à bord du Queen Mary coïncide avec le couronnement de la reine Elizabeth. Précurseur de la «planche d'humeur», les albums de Beaton permettaient à l'artiste de jouer avec les images qu'il avait prises (et peut-être celles qu'il aurait souhaitées) dans l'espace de rêve de l'artifice qui était toujours son cadre de prédilection.
Incarnation d'un luxe certain et d'un glamour légèrement suranné, Monte-Carlo est un véritable Éden, parfaitement manucuré et architecturalement grandiose. C'est aujourd'hui le secteur immobilier le plus onéreux de la planette - ce qui est un véritable miracle car ce fut longtemps une région pauvre, pratiquement inhabitable, plutôt inaccessible et faisant face à un avenir bien sombre.
Depuis ses origines phocéennes jusqu'à sa toute nouvelle puissance en tant que centre financier international, Monte-Carlo se dévoile dans ce merveilleux ouvrage qui revient sur la dynastie Grimaldi (vieille de sept cents ans), la création de la puissante Société des bains de mer, les artistes et personnalités qui firent découvrir la Principauté au plus grand nombre, Grace Kelly (l'enfant chérie d'Hollywood qui sut y attirer les flashs des journalistes), la vibrante scène artistique et culturelle, la course du Grand Prix, sans omettre la toute récente métamorphose très controversée de son paysage urbain. Agrémenté d'interviews de Monégasques et de résidents de longue date, La Légende de Monte-Carlo propose également un guide des meilleurs hôtels, restaurants, bars et magasins, comme des activités et autres attractions spécifiques au lieu et ses environs.
From sharp suits and cult watches to glamorous gowns and scene-stealing bathing suits, James Bond Style explores the timeless fashion in all twenty-five Bond movies, not only of 007 himself throughout the eras, but also his nemeses, love interests, and colleagues. Academy-Award-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming, who worked on five Bond films, wrote the book's text and captions, in addition to contributing to creative direction and photo selection. The book also includes an introduction from Dylan Jones OBE, editor-in-chief of the London Evening Standard.
The book is separated by Bonds in chronological order, namely Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, each chapter filled with the most iconic looks from the actors' films, from Dr. No to No Time To Die. In addition, there are extensive behind-the-scenes insights and stories from both the costume designers who worked on every movie as well the actual designers behind the outfits-think: Donatella Versace, Tom Ford, and Jenny Packham-plus a host of actors, from Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig to Michelle Yeoh and Grace Jones. These anecdotes reveal the sheer scale of the business that is Bond style, for instance, thirty-three bespoke Tom Ford tuxedos were made for No Time To Die in record time (and received just twenty- four hours before filming), while in Quantum Of Solace, Prada fabricated twenty dresses for Olga Kurylenko-as she wore the piece through most of the film, they needed one dress for each stage of the action, from brand-new to dust-covered to ruined.
And all the most memorable moments are inside, like Ursula Andress emerging from the waves in that famous white bikini, to the homages to that scene: Halle Berry in a shocking orange La Perla bathing suit in Die Another Day, and, in a completely unplanned and now completely viral take, Daniel Craig, also in La Perla, on a Bahamian beach in Casino Royale (one of the trunks used was later auctioned for £44,450).
Thanks to its never-before-seen sketches, detailed fashion analysis, and extensive research by the series official archivist, we're confident in saying that no book in history has chronicled the sartorial aspect of the Bond franchise as comprehensively as James Bond Style, otherwise known as the ultimate Bond style bible.
