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The fascinating story of one of the most beautiful historical villas of Lake Como, its exceptional renovation, and the excellence of Italian and French craftsmanship. Situated on the verdant slopes of Blevio, an ancient Italian hill town, Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy commands sweeping vistas on Lake Como. With a vibrant history spanning more than 175 years, it once provided sanctuary to an exiled Russian prince, and today stands as a beautifully preserved family home, epitomizing the luxury of the Italian lakes. Pascal Cagni, the current owner, is a globe-trotter passionate about exceptional design and architecture who amassed invaluable experiences on his extensive travels. His immersion in diverse cultures instilled him with profound clarity about his vision for restoring the villa to its former glory, with respect for Italy¿s architectural patrimony, in harmony with the environment, and integrating local culture and history. With Italy¿s top craftsmen at the helm, the villa was meticulously restored with traditional materials, achieving a perfect blend of past and present. Today, it stands as a testament to heritage preservation and Italian elegance; its gardens are a symbol of timeless refinement against Lake Comös eternal allure and worldly exuberance.

This refined volume documents the new collection of high jewelry from Cartier. Through Le Voyage Recommencé, its latest collection of high jewelry and precious objects, Cartier pays tribute to the richness of its style. Embarking readers on a prodigious journey, the jewelry showcased in this book explores the Maison¿s iconic fields of expression: essential lines, geometry, colors, flora and fauna, and influences from world cultures, to name but a few. The renowned jeweler continually pushes the boundaries of creation to discover new horizons. Accompanied by text focusing on the concept of style in the arts, the pieces presented in this richly illustrated volume take us on a renewed journey¿a voyage recommencé¿into the heart of the Cartier style, where creative imagination and superlative savoir faire transform precious stones and materials into magnificent jewelry.

Sixteen French explorers embark readers on their voyages around the world, to witness the trials and tribulations encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. > In 400 pages beautifully illustrated with some 300 documents¿including previously unpublished or rare texts, maps, and illustrations from centuries-old sketchbooks¿readers discover these intrepid travelers and their extraordinary scientific, military, or commercial voyages, which have significantly marked the history of world exploration and contributed to our modern understanding of geography, cartography, climate change, and global cultures. Unfiltered extracts from travel journals, original works by each explorer, and previously unpublished personal correspondence plunge readers into the heart of their adventures. These rare first-person historical accounts provide enlightening insight into their thoughts, concerns, and contemporary attitudes¿touching on themes such as colonization, religion, trade, and geopolitics¿with relevance that strikes the chords of modern-day issues.

Step inside designer and sculptor Thomas Bastide's studio to discover the techniques, concepts, and inspirations that lie behind his glass creations. This book retraces forty years in the creative career of Thomas Bastide. The designer and sculptor has collaborated with prestigious French and international companies, including Baccarat, Hennessy, and Christofle, and this volume pays tribute to the unique techniques that he has contributed to the fields of crystal glassmaking, goldsmithery, and porcelain-making. Featuring the themes that are fundamental to the artist's work, such as equilibrium, deconstruction, mechanics, and fluidity, this volume invites readers to discover an exceptional savoir faire combining creativity, technical prowess, resilience, and dexterity. The text paints an authentic, vivacious, yet humble portrait of Bastide, and his anecdotes accompany photographs by Jo Pesendorfer of a selection of his works. This is a bilingual edition, in English and French.

The inspiring history of Kering¿the luxury group that includes Gucci, Balenciaga, and Saint Laurent¿its visionary founder François Pinault, and his talented son François-Henri Pinault, current chairman and CEO. This richly illustrated volume traces the history of the Kering group, from its humble inception beginnings as a timber trading firm founded by François Pinault in 1962 to the global luxury group it has become today. With exceptional intuition regarding pivotal economic and societal evolutions¿from sustainability to gender equality¿the group has, since its creation, consistently demonstrated that audacity and imagination are the driving forces behind its development. Contributions from renowned personalities with close ties to Kering in fashion, business, entertainment, activism, the arts, and journalism¿including Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Carlo Capasa, Jean-Michel Darrois, Mercedes Erra, Jane Fonda, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Bethann Hardison, Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, François Henrot, Huang Hong, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Alain Minc, Paul Polman, Xavier Romatet, Serge Weinberg, and Anna Wintour¿accompany this exhilarating history. Featuring a wealth of photographs and documents, the volume bears witness to the company¿s extraordinary journey, from the rugged coast of Brittany to the magnificently restored former hospital that houses Kering¿s headquarters today.

Discover the dazzling treasures of one of the world¿s most prominent jewelry collectors, hailed by Forbes as "the man with the most valuable jewelry collection you never knew existed. This volume illuminates the vision of Kazumi Arikawa, a Japanese collector and dealer, and the founder and president of Albion Art. Throughout his career, he has pursued the world¿s most dazzling gems, acquiring rare pieces from all eras with incomparable artistic and historical value, including an important number of royal jewels from across Europe and the largest collection of historical tiaras. For Kazumi Arikawa, who spent several years as a Buddhist monk, jewelry art is a spiritual journey¿an exaltation of emotions and a celebration of universal beauty, which he has made it his mission to spread across the world through publications and exhibitions. In Japanese culture, this veneration of beauty is closely linked to the purity of the soul. Featuring a catalog of works curated by acclaimed jewelry historian Diana Scarisbrick, as well as all-new photography by Nils Herrmann, this volume presents for the first time 250 treasured pieces that have passed through the skilled hands of this unique collector, including a selection of masterpieces now held in the Qatar Museums collections.

This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he founded.For eighty-five years, the Maison FRED has embodied boldness and joie de vivre. True to the avant-garde spirit of its founder, Fred Samuel, the eminent Parisian jeweller has made its mark thanks to its vision of a lifestyle encompassing laid-back elegance, with collections inspired by light and the sea. For the first time, the remarkable story of maverick creator Fred Samuel is revealed in this book, from his homeland Argentina to the shores of California and the French Riviera. Richly illustrated with archival documents and family photographs, as well as images of iconic creations and unique pieces of high jewellery, this work allows readers to discover a luxury jeweller that is visionary, daring, and free.

This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he founded.For eighty-five years, the Maison FRED has embodied boldness and joie de vivre. True to the avant-garde spirit of its founder, Fred Samuel, the eminent Parisian jeweller has made its mark thanks to its vision of a lifestyle encompassing laid-back elegance, with collections inspired by light and the sea. For the first time, the remarkable story of maverick creator Fred Samuel is revealed in this book, from his homeland Argentina to the shores of California and the French Riviera. Richly illustrated with archival documents and family photographs, as well as images of iconic creations and unique pieces of high jewellery, this work allows readers to discover a luxury jeweller that is visionary, daring, and free.

Yves Saint Laurent invented a multitude of new silhouettes—minimalist, exuberant, round, ultra-structured—that eclipsed traditional forms in fashion. A fashion revolutionary, Yves Saint Laurent and his creations were resolutely modern. His ongoing exploration of shape and form incessantly pushed the boundaries of his creativity, and lead to his most groundbreaking and iconic designs. His works were influenced by the artistic trends of the time¿from simple and geometric abstraction to constructivism and concrete art¿whose many movements mirror the multifaceted talent of the designer. A bold, exacting gesture underpinned his art: his minimalist dresses were often monochromatic compositions seemingly sprung from a single line. A colorist, he imagined pure yet exuberant abstract designs by juxtaposing flat surfaces in vibrant hues. Transposing pictorial material into textile, he thus balanced color, form, surface, and line. An illusionist, he would juxtapose black and white to suggest movement in the garment through optical illusion. By using flat, simple lines, shape prevailed over color. This volume accompanies an exhibition at Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris from June 9, 2023 to January 14, 2024, which will feature key pieces from the Yves Saint Laurent archives in dialogue with the set design and works by ceramic artist Claudia Wieser.

Celebrating three centuries of exceptional and refined cognac at Remy Martin. In 1724, the young French winemaker Rémy Martin first began to sell cognac under his own name. Three hundred years later, Rémy Martin has become the foremost brand of cognac, and its prestigious products are famous the world over, from their Fine Champagne Rémy Martin XO to the emblematic Louis XIII. To celebrate the brand¿s tercentenary, this book invites readers to step inside the historic wineries, to explore the vineyards of the Cognac region, and to dive into the fascinating story of Rémy Martin. Previously unpublished archival documents are combined with a contemporary perspective provided through newly commissioned images by Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert. The beautifully produced volume, which includes five color printing throughout, is completed by a cognac pairing guide and cocktail recipes. This work offers an exceptional occasion to discover the history, savoir faire, and traditions of one of the greatest spirit brands in the world.

This broad survey of modernism—the most scintillating creative era in Paris—spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography. The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassai, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

Discover the evolution of Modigliani's art, through the prism of his relationship with his art dealer, Paul Guillaume. This beautifully illustrated catalogue and its accompanying exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris demonstrate how Modigliani's partnership with his gallerist Paul Guillaume influenced his painting. When Amedeo Modigliani arrived in Paris in 1906, the Jewish-Italian artist was a painter. His meeting with sculptor Constantin Brancusi in 1909 was a revelation, and inspired Modigliani to sculpt-almost exclusively-until 1914, when he met art dealer Paul Guillaume. The effects of this meeting were sudden and total. Modigliani would return to painting and never look back. This volume unveils the relationship that prompted this change through analysis of Modigliani's paintings and Guillaume's writings. With these resources at hand, the reader gains an intimate insight into this intriguing duo whose combined talents as artist and promotor left an indelible mark on the history of twentieth-century art. The book highlights their complicity and shared interests in African art, literature, and poetry.

A favorite of the LA design cognoscenti, discover Galerie Half's stylish blend of twentieth century design, European antiques, and eclectic rarities through the homes of its prestigious customers. What started out as a small selection of vintage pieces with a focus on 1950s French and Danish furniture, has now expanded to become a reference point of modern European and American style for Los Angeles interior designers and star Hollywood clientele, including Ellen Degeneres and Diane Keaton. This book explores Galerie Half's highly eclectic but always pointedly fashionable style through the homes and interiors it has inspired, including exclusive looks at the homes of the gallery's celebrity clients, including Jason and Amanda Anka Bateman, Netflix co-founder Ted Sarandos and former ambassador Nicole Avant, Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington Whitely, Ellen Degeneres, and Ryan Murphy.

"Son genre est une invention aussi originale que naturelle, et dans cet entre-deux des groupes imposants de l'un et de l'autre siècle, la gloire qu'il se développe ne rappelle que lui. Ce fut un heureux et facile génie, renommé pour les grâces du style et la vivacité des peintures". Sainte Beuve

Color, which has the power to impart meaning or express emotion, has fascinated humans for millennia. This comprehensive, illustrated guide demonstrates how color¿through different periods, cultures, and artistic movements¿has been used in art: from the black, red, and white pigments first used in prehistoric cave paintings to the muted tones of Gabonese Punu masks replete with spiritual significance, or from Andy Warhol¿s Gold Marilyn Monroe with its flashy hues borrowed from the advertising world to the signature ¿outrenoir¿ (beyond black) of the late Pierre Soulages. From oil painting to optical art, this international history of color unfurls over thirty major periods in the development of color in the arts, elucidating their characteristics, key works, and exponents. The symbolism given to a particular color and how such associations have evolved over time is revealed. A gallery of sixty works that are remarkable for their extraordinary use of color includes the explosion of light emanating from Joseph Mallord William Turner¿s Light and Color (Goethe¿s Theory), the fleeting moments of dawn depicted with broken brushstrokes and colorful intensity in Monet¿s Impression, Sunrise, and the acidulous tones of David Hockney¿s portrait My Parents. A final chapter examines the materials and techniques used to achieve chromatic effects. Complete with extensive cross-references, this accessible guide allows readers to discover more about a particular movement, theme, or technique, and offers an enlightening and polychromatic overview to the history of color in art.

The impressionist masters were known for their close relationships. Their peers, family, art dealers, and patrons all featured regularly in their artworks, and children were favored subjects. All aspects of childhood and family life at the end of the nineteenth century—maternity, nannies, education, gardens, games, beaches, animals, adolescence, and daydreams—were depicted in the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot. This volume draws an intimate portrait of the everyday lives of these artists and their families. One hundred paintings complete with historical and biographical context are featured alongside genealogical trees and family photographs of the impressionists, juxtaposed with more contemporary works. This book transcends the archetypal representation of the child to decipher the subject in all its facets. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Musée des Impressionismes Giverny in spring 2023, this volume is a tribute to children and family ties.

Enchanting brocades and damasks, luminous hand-woven silken velvets, traditional woodblock printed fabrics, striking contemporary patterns made into works of art: Pierre Frey, a family business founded in 1935, is famous for the variety and boldness of its inspired designs, and has asserted itself in the luxury market as the uncontested global leader in soft furnishing textiles and wallpapers. Having acquired the venerable houses Braquenié and Le Manach, Pierre Frey possesses one of the most important private textile heritages in the world. Pierre Frey has worked with the Louvre and the château de Versailles, decorated castle interiors, and provides the fabrics and wallpapers of elegant private homes around the world—from Paris to Hong Kong to New York. Drawing from their archives of more than 25,000 documents, which date from the sixteenth century to the present, this indispensable volume will serve as a historical reference and a basis for contemporary inspiration to professional and amateur designers.

Maison Lescot—the historic residence in Port-Louis, Brittany, of an eighteenth-century Indian trading company importer—seemed predestined to become the new home and restoration project for the creative duo behind Antoinette Poisson, a Parisian workshop dedicated to reviving the savoir faire of domino paper for home decoration and furnishings. The two art historians were seduced by the poetic beauty of this artisanal craft—derived from an Indian block print technique—when they uncovered original hand-painted eighteenth-century domino wallpaper while restoring a mansion in central France. Enchanted by the repeat-pattern domino prints—which range from florals and fauna to geometric and ikat—they have appointed their new home with the charming decorative touches that are their signature— handmade lampshades, wallpaper lined armoires, paper-mâché marriage boxes, assorted table settings, and luxurious textiles.Celebrating the rhythm of life in France, they bring readers on adventures—shopping at the local market, antiquing, mushroom hunting, sheep¿s cheese making, and textile dying—and share classic seasonal French meals inspired by antique cookbooks, served-up on hand-dyed indigo tablecloths or on nautical striped throws for a seaside picnic. They also include creative insight from their style icon friends, like American decoupage artist John Derian. This exquisitely photographed book is a celebration of authentic French style.

Berthe Morisot won over the Impressionists with her talent and became the first woman of the group alongside Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley. This book showcases the life and works of this artist, focusing on the important stages of her career, including her first participation in the Salon de Paris at the age of twenty-three in 1864.

George Condo is renowned for his eclectic mix of artistic influences¿from the Old Masters to cubism to pop art. The artist who coined the term ¿artificial realism¿ blends imagery and styles from various movements in works that critique contemporary Western culture and its excesses. His paintings and sculptures feature Humanoids¿figures that are metaphors of our humanity, magnifying our emotions and revealing our high and low points. For the first time in his own words, Condo reveals the genesis and significance of his distorted creations and unveils previously unseen paintings created during the pandemic and the political turmoil in the United States. Didier Ottinger examines the career, influences, and works of this unconventional artist who is at once rewriting the history of art and caricaturing the immoderation of the modern world. An exhibition of Condös Humanoids at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opens nearly a quarter century after he created set and costume designs for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

Discover the exceptional new creations, destined for eminent clients and collectors, from one of the world’s most prestigious jewelers.True to the Cartier brothers’ passion for the earth and its natural beauties, the newest collection of high jewelry brings the wonders of nature and cultural splendors from all four corners of the globe into dialogue. Sublimated by the interplay of stones and drawings, the inspirations give rise to highly stylized, even abstract compositions of a new genre. A coral reef entwines the length of a flamboyant necklace, an iguana skin transforms into a geometric matrix, and a Chinese puzzle box reveals a kaleidoscopic ring. Natural treasures and the fruits of human creativity meet in the purity of original compositions, revealing the unique dimensions of a multifaceted world that showcases all the richness of the nature and the Cartier universe. This book includes two paper stocks and booklet inserts.

For eighty-five years, the Maison FRED has embodied boldness and joie de vivre. True to the avant-garde spirit of its founder, Fred Samuel, the eminent Parisian jeweller has made its mark thanks to its vision of a lifestyle encompassing laid-back elegance, with collections inspired by light and the sea. For the first time, the remarkable story of maverick creator Fred Samuel is revealed in this book, from his homeland Argentina to the shores of California and the French Riviera. Richly illustrated with archival documents and family photographs, as well as images of iconic creations and unique pieces of high jewellery, this work allows readers to discover a luxury jeweller that is visionary, daring, and free.

Bringing together the world of Parisian fashion brand AMI with the singular vision of photographers from the internationally acclaimed Magnum Photos agency and two guest artists, this book presents a contemporary, intimate, and poignant vision of what family, in the broadest sense, means today. These photographs form a tapestry of modern family relationships and will be exhibited in Paris, Frieze London, Art Basel Miami, and Kyotographie, Japan from September 2022. Custom designed with foil stamping and exceptional details, the cloth Swiss-binding has an unattached spine and wrap-around cover to allow the book to lie flat. Two horizontal double gatefolds and two vertical gatefolds provide a panoramic view of works by four contributors.