ASSOULINE SPRING 2005 CATALOGUE

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USA- Welcome to the world of Assouline, where the culture of fine books joins the universe of luxury. Assouline is the first luxury brand in the world to use its publications as a medium, bridging the gap between life and style. For the past ten years, Assouline Publishing has created fine illustrated books dedicated to fashion, photography, art and design. Renowned for their highly original graphic concept, Assouline books are works of art capturing culture and bringing it to life. The spirit and ‘savoir faire’ of these works have contributed to the creation of a unique and eclectic, chic and elegant brand that is immediately identifiable. Today, Assouline publications can be found around the globe. In October, 2004 Assouline started the process of opening boutiques at eleven Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States. In Asia, Assouline has opened corners in Hong Kong with Lane Crawford and in Japan with Celux (Louis Vuitton VIP member boutique), Christie’s (New York), Holt Renfrew (Toronto) and Quartier 206 (Berlin). Assouline has designed a highly exclusive line of limited-edition luxury gift items. The Assouline Collection contains  such  is sold exclusively in select Assouline boutiques and through their site www.assouline.com.

"As Cartier is to watches, Assouline is to books!" proclaims Time Out New York
Assouline Publishing, the illustrated book publishing house releases more than two dozen fantastic new titles this Fall, 2005 including Compendium of Interior Styles (December, 2005) by François Baudot, So Far, So Goude (November, 2005) by Jean-Paul Goude and Patrick Mauriés, American Cities: Historic Maps and Views (November, 2005) by Paul Cohen and Henri Taliaferro, Lost Divas (October, 2005) by André Tubeuf, Rooster: Animal Icon (December, 2005) by Philippe Schlienger, The 1001 Nights (December, 2005) by Sir Francis Burton, New York (October, 2005) by Tama Janowitz, Video Game Art (November, 2005) by Nic Kelman, Louvre Game Book (November, 2005) by David Rosenberg and Pascal Bonafoux, The Sculptures of Picasso (October, 2005) by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and photographs by Brassai, Planets: On Some Remarkable Nebulae (November, 2005) by Thierry W. Despont, Symbols of Judaism (October, 2005) by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, The New English Dandy (November, 2005) by Alice Cicolini, Fashion in Colors (December, 2005) celebrating at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Something to Hold (December, 2005) by Sharon Stone, photographs by Mimi Craven, Dolce Vita Style (November, 2005) by Jean-Pierre Dufreigne, Palm Springs Style (November, 2005) by Aline Coquelle, Bar Mitzvah: A Guide to Spiritual Growth (November, 2005) by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Lynn: Front to Back (October, 2005) by Lynn Kohlman, Raymond Loewy (October, 2005) by Philippe Tretiak, Rebel Style (October, 2005) by G. Bruce Boyer, Chema Madoz (September, 2005) by Christian Caujolle, Marie Antoinette (October, 2005) by Adrien Goetz, Ultimate Cocktails (December, 2005) by Amy Sacco, Candy (October, 2005) by Delphine Moreau, Charlotte Perriand (October, 2005) by Elisabeth Vedrenne, Fornasetti: Conversation with Philippe Starck (September, 2005) by Brigitte Fitoussi, Barbie (October, 2005) by Frederic Beigbeder, Yohji Yamamoto (September, 2005) by Francois Baudot, Dolce & Gabbana (October, 2005) by Franica Sozzani, Jean-Paul Gaultier (September, 2005) by Farid Chenoune, and The Kennedys (October, 2005), slip cased featuring two titles, JFK: A Time for Greatness by Jacques Lowe and Jackie by Nicole Salinger. Inspired by art magazines and luxury publications, Assouline's graphic conception for lavishly illustrated books is replete with full-page pictures always aiming to maintain a proper balance between text and image. Welcome to the world of Assouline. Come inside and get a sneak peak of tomorrow's hottest coffee-table stunners today! For more information please contact usvia email anna@workhousepr.com

Fall, 2005 Assouline Catalogue:
LIFESTYLE
Dolce Vita Style
By Jean-Pierre Dufreigne
Price: $40; ISBN 2 84323 731 9; 7 3/4 x 11/ 19.7 x 27.9 cm; 152 Pages; 100 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
The fantastic creative energy of the 1960s took off with a burst of black and white: La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini. An instant cult film, it became a great classic of modernity and continues to affect generation after generation, legendary yet always contemporary. A baroque frieze of a high-strung Rome, where decadence and despair, missteps and glamour, sophistication and the search for absolutes, are painted with powerful images imbued with a memorable, unique and prophetic beauty. Dolce Vita Style draws on the history of those that inspired the film in the theatrically Rome of the ‘50s and sums up the innumerable influences that this cult film has had on so many of those in the worlds of movies, popular music, society life, and fashion from Valentino to Dolce & Gabbana. Image by image, this book retraces the astonishing itinerary of a work that is a supreme emblem and a source of inexhaustible style.

Palm Springs Style
By Aline Coquelle
Price: $40; ISBN 2 84323 743 2; 7 3/4 x 11/ 19.7 x 27.9; 176 Pages; 100 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, and Elvis Presley made it their stomping grounds. Wildly free in the post-war years, Palm Springs was all about luxury, parties, sex and sun. It was inspired by the designs of European architects like Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius; and for such American tycoons as Raymond Loewy, Bob Hope, and Howard Hughes, they created slick residences that blended perfectly into the huge Mojave desert. This book takes a look at Neutra’s Kaufmann House, Lautner’s Elrod House (where Diamonds Are Forever was shot), the Frey House II (which is home to the Palm Springs Desert Museum today), Frey’s Loewy Residence, and all the essential places in Palm Springs. As a bonus, there is the sharp address book everybody’s fighting over (vintage furniture, hotels, resorts, perfect motels from the ‘40s to the ‘60s). If you are looking for a Palm Springs revival, you’ll find it here.

Ultimate Cocktails
By Amy Sacco
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 747 5; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
There’s so much more to serving a cocktail than shaken, not stirred. Glamorous and exuberant, more than any other drink, the cocktail has a place in our social culture that stylishly evolves as the years go by.  From classic scenes in old-Hollywood films like The Thin Man to Carrie Bradshaw’s cosmopolitans, the cocktail has become a character to be interpreted and reinterpreted.  In a lusciously illustrated volume, Amy Sacco - the ultimate cocktail cognoscente - restores the spirit of this very sexy drink, sharing favorite recipes from her exclusive nightclubs including Lot 61 and Bungalow 8.  The restaurant and bar owner credited with converting New York City’s Chelsea into the go-to party destination also reminisces on the most important “cocktail” moments of the past decade, and offers tips on how to serve them with flair.  Assouline, the educator on style, punctuates the book with the latest in bar and stemware – the perfect holiday gift.

FASHION
The New English Dandy
By Alice Cicolini
Price: $45; ISBN 2 84323 756 4; 10 7/8 x 9 / 27.5 x 23 cm; 176 Pages; 260 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Just in time for the return of the suit comes this bible of men’s dressy style, its accoutrement and lifestyle accompaniments: a fashion handbook and treasure trove of ideas tailored to the contemporary male or metrosexual. The contemporary Englishman and the designers who design for him stepped into the international style limelight when journalists at Italian Menswear Fashion Week proclaimed that the “noughties” were the decade of British tailoring. Fusing classical principles with today’s sensibilities, the book celebrates the return of the well-dressed man. Each thematic section features a specially commissioned fashion shoot by a rising star of fashion photography and a text of bespoke inspiration, instruction, interviews and insight. A reference section provides a tailor’s glossary and contact information. The New English Dandy sets the standard for today’s new man about town.

Fashion in Colors
Celebrating the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Price: $45; ISBN 2 84323 744 0; 7 3/4 x 11/ 20 x 28 cm; 288 Pages; 250 Illustrations; Flexibound
Published in conjunction with an exhibit organized by the Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, this beautifully illustrated book is a unique and dazzling exploration of the perception and relevance of color across three hundred years of fashion, taste, and cultural mores. Conceived by the celebrated design duo Viktor & Rolf, whose audacious fashions grace runways in Paris and New York, this edition includes more than eighty works by designers such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, Madeleine Vionnet, Vivienne Westwood, Azzedine Alaia, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf, and ReiKawakubo, most of the from KCI’s permanent collections. Featuring essays that discuss the influence of color on fashion and society by scholars including Akiko Fukai (Chief Curator, KCI), Lourdes Font (Assistant Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology), Claude Levi-Strauss, and Barbara Bloemink (Curatorial Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum), Fashion in Colors also includes designer profiles and an extended interview with Viktor & Rolf.

DESIGN
Compendium of Interior Styles
By François Baudot
Price: $70; ISBN 2 84323 720 3; 10 1/2 x 13 1/4/ 23 x 30 cm; 432 Pages; 300 Illustrations; Hardcover, Jacket
Aside from clothes, the most immediate extension of the human body is the décor 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 this work, with its abundant and eloquent iconography, is dedicated. The chapters wed the chronology of the styles that followed one another using, as examples, the most beautiful houses in the world. The first part stats with the Medieval era and ends with the twentieth century, while the second is devoted to the roots of design from the Belle Époque to contemporary aesthetics. Each style has its own elegance, its function, and its reason for being. Each style comes back, at one time or another, to haunt new decades short of references. This, the periods overlap each other: yesterday via nineteenth century’s historicism, and today with the rise of all the retro fashions. But regardless of the choices one makes, what is fascinating in the organization of an architectural volume is that it always speaks of its own time. And it often does so very well.

ART
Video Game Art
By Nic Kelman
Price: $29.95; ISBN 2 84323 729 7; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 300 Pages; 250 Color and B&W Photographs; Flexibound
By 2008 most analysts predict that the video game industry will be larger than the film and music industries combined. Games today already command Hollywood budgets and teams dozens of artists, writers, musicians, and designers...and yet almost nothing has been written about their art and design from a non-technical viewpoint. Video Game Art is a first look from an art history and post-modern cultural perspective at the influences behind, and achievements of today’s genre-defining video games. Examining themes such as character, environment, and the growing place of video games among more traditional art forms, and including commentary from luminaries of the field and often unpublished behind-the-scene art of both past and upcoming games, Video Game Art is a pioneering foray into what promises to be the dominant art form of the coming century.

American Cities: Historic Maps and Views
By Paul Cohen and Henri Taliaferro
Price: $70.00; ISBN 2 84323 716 5; 11 2/3 x 15 1/2/ 29.5 x 39.5 cm; 200 Pages; 150 Illustrations; Hardcover, Jacket with 10 Gatefolds
A fascinating way to explore cities is through historic maps and views. It is while deciphering its creation and development that one uncovers the true spirit of a city. American Cities features nine of this country’s greatest metropolises; cities that are thriving urban centers today with colorful histories rich in graphic representation: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. Rare or previously unpublished, the maps and views reproduced for each city turn the book into a unique journey of both form and content. An essay by specialist accompanies each section. The result is a lavish work that pays tribute to the most important and artistic images of America.

The 1001 Nights
By Sir Richard Francis Burton
Price: $90.00; ISBN 2 84323 725 4; 10 1/2 x 13 1/2/ 23 x 30 cm; 432 Pages; Flexibound in Slipcase
In the late 1920’s, the art publisher H. Piazza produced a twelve-volume version of The 1001 Nights that was one of the most beautiful ever made. It included splendid illustrations by Mohammed Racim and wonderful miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Today, Assouline is publishing an abridged version of this masterpiece, which includes the most famous and most enchanting of the tales, from the story of King Shahryar, to the story of Sinbad the sailor, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, or Aladdin and magic lamp...all told by the beautiful and sensual Shahrazad. This wonderful book is one of the classics that will stand next to the handsome books in your library. For The 1001 Nights is a cultural testimony of the past, the source of myths and beliefs of the East. A collection of extraordinary stories from India and Persia passed down orally and told at night in public squares, this unique work is on par with Homer’s Odyssey.

Louvre Game Book
By David Rosenberg and Pascal Bonafoux
Price: $29.95; ISBN 2 84323 729 7; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 400 Pages; 250 Color and B&W Photographs; Flexibound
Learn everything there is to know about the biggest museum in the world. The home of one of the most famous collections in the world and witness to all of French history, was also the setting for the famous Da Vinci Code. The Louvre has a history of power and intrigue, murder, marriage and coronations. Its past also includes the great European architects and artists since the fourteenth century. Today the museum houses several centuries of masterpieces of painting, western sculpture and works from Antiquity- Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman art, and Islamic art. Wonderfully illustrated with more than 400 photographs, and filled with short, comprehensible essays as well as games, questions and answers, the Louvre Game Book is an ideal way to sharpen your knowledge of art history. A dictionary of artists from Antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century, a glossary, museum maps, and practical information all come together in this original and handy guide.

The Sculptures of Picasso
By Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Photos by Brassai
Price: $120; ISBN 2 84323 788 2; 13 x 16 2/3/ 32.8 x 42.4 cm; 120 Pages; 70 Illustrations; Hardcover, Slipcase
This highly luxurious publication presents the sculptures of Picasso photographed by Brassai, one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. An authentic text written for this work in 1948 by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the former art dealer of Picasso, is also included. Brassai met Picasso in 1932 when he was commissioned to take a series of pictures of the artist’s studio and of some plaster sculptures done at the Boisgeloup for the review Minotaure. Several years later he was again contacted to photograph Picasso’s work for the first book published on the subject of the artist’s sculptures. Hence, between 1932 and 1946, Brassai photographed all of Picasso’s sculpted works. This long-term working relationships led to a fruitful exchange between the two artists on the respective nature of photography and sculpture, which is reflected in this volume. The Sculptures of Picasso is an atypical vision of lesser known works by Picasso. Indeed, the medium used to depict the sculptures is nearly as unsettling as the objects themselves, and the confusion is emphasized by the contrast between flatness and fullness.

Planets: On Some Remarkable Nebulae
Paintings By Thierry W. Despont
Price: $150; ISBN 2 84323 795 5; 13 x 16 2/3/ 32.8 x 42.4 cm; 120 Pages; 80 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Slipcase
Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont conjugates his architectural skills and painter’s virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic, daunting and singularly attracting orbs, turning his struggle with corrosive materials and richly textured pigments into a spiritual achievement. A compound of restless collage and swirling pigments, each orb is animated by a life of its own: colorful magma breaking through the scorched surface of the canvas, white streaks flickering against the encroaching and abysmal darkness of a stark black background that seems about to engulf it. At the same time dynamic and mesmerizing, they are mysterious and numinous, intimate and remote; a lesson in the “abstract sublime,” they conjure up the immemorial awe of man in front of a cosmic world he both reveres and dreads. Beyond the eruptive, cataclysmic forces animating them, the orbs are inwardly radiant, animated by a life that seems to emerge from their depths, and conjure up a paradoxical harmony that embues them with an ultimate metaphysical dimension.

RELIGION
Symbols of Judaism
By Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Price: $70; ISBN 2 84323 789 0; 13 x 16 2/3/ 32.8 x 42.4 cm; 120 pages; 80 Color & B&W Photos; Hardcover, Slipcase
This luxury volume is a beautiful and moving visual record of the ancient traditions that form the cornerstones of Jewish existence. Full-page images of precious religious artifacts such as the Holy Ark and the Sabbath candlesticks, but also holy sites including synagogues and the Mount of Olives, accompany a thought-provoking text by Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin. He provides answers to many fundamental questions about the traditions of Judaism, discussing not only their origins and application today, but also religious holidays and feasts according to the Jewish calendar.

Bar Mitzvah: A Guide to Spiritual Growth
By Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Price: $24.95; ISBN 2 84323 718 1; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 390 pages; 150 Illustrations; Hardcover, Jacket
Do you have to be Jewish to have a Bar Mitzvah? What is a synagogue? What is read in the Torah? Why is reading and study at the heart of Judaism and this symbolic ceremony? What are the foundations of Judaism? Signifying the end of childhood and the passage into adult life, the Bar Mitzvah is one of the most famous ceremonies in Judaism. Celebrated at the synagogue, it is a big event for family and friends, and also a time of ritual. Clear and educational, this book is an introduction to the fascinating and mysterious world of one of Judaism’s oldest rituals. Perfect for children who are about to have this important experience. Thanks to its informative content the parents too will be able to share their knowledge of this age-old ceremony with their family and friends.

PHOTOGRAPHY
So Far, So Goude
By Jean-Paul Goude and Patrick Mauriés
Price: $65; ISBN 2 84323 755 6;  9 1/2 x 11 3/8/ 24 x 29 cm; 360 Pages; 350 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
So Far, So Goude represents Goude’s work from the late 1960’s up to the present. It is, in fact, an artist’s autobiography, the life told through the work, since Goude has never been able or willing to separate his person growth and personal desires from his art. Beginning with the strongest influences of his early years, it moves with unusual honesty and good deal of humour through his teenage love of dance (his mother was a Broadway dancer), sport and jazz; his youthful hangouts in the sixties; his years at art school and his discovery of drawing as a means of seduction; his time at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones for Jungle Fever; his videos from MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Lee Cooper, Chanel, Cacharel; his involvement with the Bicentennial Parade; his wife and family...
Selected and arranged by Jean-Paul Goude himself, written by Goude and Patrick Mauries, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, it will be endlessly fascinating to all those interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all avenues of commercial design and advertising.

Lost Divas
By André Tubeuf
Price: $55; ISBN 2 84323 735 1; 10 1/2 x 14 1/2/ 27 x 37 cm; 96 Pages; 70 Illustrations; Hardcover, Jacket with CD
This book tells all about a lost, authentically legendary species: the divas. They were the first movie stars. Before Pickford and Garbo, there was Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri, and Mary Garden. They were the most stunning opera singers, their personalities perhaps even bigger than their voices. Their success and their lives filled the gossip columns. Their fans loved them, grand dukes covered them in jewels. The represented both the splendorous excesses of an era of elegance and luxury, and its swan’s song. There is almost nothing that survives of them today. Thankfully, their image remains and reveals all. Along with unpublished pictures of the greatest divas of this century, rediscover their voices in the accompanying CD produced specially for this publication.

Rooster
By Philippe Schlienger
Price: $55; ISBN 2 84323 741 6; 10 1/2 x 14 1/2/ 27 x 37 cm; 80 Pages; 50 Color Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Philippe Schlienger’s roosters stare at us with an aggressiveness and an anxiety common to all birds. But what a shock to be faced with these roosters dressed for a parade! Blazing, dazzling, glittering, they are fantastic. One has a stiffened and colored crest standing like a punk hairdo. Another sports a drooping comb that looks like genital organs. All were bred by a passionate collector of roosters. The reader cannot help being confused by such random shapes, colors and textures. The original framing and distinctness of the pictures are a trademark of the artist. He has created animal icons, new kinds of fashion victims. The malicious eye of Philippe Schlienger has succeeded in emphasizing the eccentricity of the rooster. The narcissism of the brave beast is highly amusing; in a nearly human way, the new icons are fun, posh, posing, and swanky.

New York
By Tama Janowitz
Price: $49.95; ISBN 2 84323 715 7; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 1000 Pages; More than 800 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Slipcase
Diverse and vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational, there are many definitions of New York. In a photographic tour that goes beyond the clichés of this spirited city, Assouline presents a unique portrait of New York City with pictures that are at once modern, elegant, and bold. From its intimate details to its iconic architecture, here are over 900 images that illuminate the mantra, “Only in New York.”  There is Central Park and Carnegie Hall, of course, but also Mott Street, Jackson Heights and the Apollo. With an entertaining introduction by Tama Janowitz and an appendix of Assouline’s favourite hotels, restaurants, museums, and special services, New York is the quintessential illustrated volume on the world’s greatest city.

Something to Hold
By Sharon Stone with photographs by Mimi Craven
Price: $24.95; ISBN 2 84323 754 8; 5 1/2 x 7 7/8/ 14 x 20 cm; 96 Pages; Hardcover with flaps
After many years of traveling all over the world, campaigning for amFAR and meeting people in need of comfort, best friends photographer Mimi Craven and actress activist Sharon Stone decided to create Something to Hold, a book about guardian angels and their ability to help anyone, even the most isolated people. Each one of us is attached to an angel who guides us and protects us from birth to death. These guardian angels, present in most cultures since the Greeks and Romans, are our daily companions. Once we communicate with them, their light energy may help us. The images of this very unique book show different representations of angels, and inspired the reflective text written by Sharon Stone: “They encompass the feeling that I have when I meet others who are looking for some kind of solace,” she says. A book to revel in, over and over, as much for its message as for its emotionally charged beauty. Completing this testimony is a guide in which readers can identify the angel associated with their dates of birth. The release of Something to Hold coincides with the actresses’ tenth anniversary of working towards a cure with the American Foundation for AIDS Research, to whom they will be donating all their proceeds from the book.

Lynn: Front to Back
By Lynn Kohlman
Price; $50; ISBN 2 84323 576 6; 10 1/4 x 13 3/4/ 26 x 35 cm; 156 Pages; 170 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Lynn Kohlman has had one of the most varied and successful careers in the contemporary fashion industry. She began as a fashion model in the late sixties, appearing on covers of all the major fashion bibles, as well as advertising campaigns for designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, and Missoni. In the mid-seventies, while working as a design assistant for Perry Ellis, her own photographs of male models attracted the attention of Andy Warhol. Warhol invited Lynn to shoot for his groundbreaking Interview magazine, which lead to a successful stint taking photographs for magazines such as American and Italian Vogue, GQ and Glamour, and ad campaigns for major fashion houses. In 1989, she was hired as the Fashion Director for the Donna Karan Company, and later helped Tommy Hilfiger launch his women's wear line. In 2002, Lynn was faced with her greatest challenge yet: being diagnosed with cancer. Facing the setback with her signature style, creativity, and humor, Lynn has documented her struggle in this powerful and visual chronicle. Featuring iconic photographs by Hiro, David Bailey, Bill King, and Bill Richardson, as well as her own work, Lynn: Front to Back is a compelling, inspiring, and moving account of this incredible woman's intimate journey.

MEMOIRES: FASHION
Barbie
By Frederic Beigbeder
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 772 6; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
When Barbie was born in 1959, Barbie was an instant success in the stores.  Originally conceived as a “teenage model dressed in the latest style,” Barbie soon boasted a full range of clothing and accessories, complete with evening dresses, daytime suits, jeans, beachwear, shoes, handbags, and more. Over the years, she diligently kept up with the quick pace of changing fashions from the minidress of the sixties to the maxicoat of the seventies. By the eighties and nineties, however, Barbie’s wardrobe entered a whole new dimension of elegance when the world’s most renowned couturiers introduced original designs created exclusively for her.  In this delightfully illustrated volume, we find a spectacular gallery of these dazzling ensembles.

Yohji Yamamoto
By François Baudot
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 704 1; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Since his first notorious Paris show in 1981, the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has extended his influence year after year.  His recent collections reveal him to be firmly in the ranks of the world’s greatest stylists.  This disciplined, secretive, and subversive man has, during fifteen years of ferocious work, succeeded in overturning all the rules of contemporary fashion and in rejecting every traditional clichéd notion of what a glamorous women should look like.  Yamamoto can move effortlessly from the task of making a simple white shirt to the complex cutting of an evening dress. He draws from fashion’s past and creates future.  He is constructing a new approach to clothing in the post-industrial, late twentieth century world, bringing together the best of both the East and the West.

Dolce & Gabbana
By Franca Sozzani
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 775 0; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Since the opening of their studio in 1982, the partnership of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana has come to symbolize the new generation of Italian fashion design. It is Domenico Dolce’s native Sicily that provides the greatest influence on the duo’s strong, sensual designs. Constantly evolving and maturing the quintessential Dolce & Gabbana women remains sexy, shapely, confident, and above all Mediterranean.

Jean-Paul Gaultier
By Farid Chenoune
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 712 2; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Enfant terrible of the French fashion world, Jean-Paul Gaultier has astonished us with his inventiveness, energy and ability to have fun since his first collection at the end of the 1970s. A master of mixing styles – often from the streets of London and Paris – his clothes break down the barriers between beauty and ugliness, elegance, and vulgarity, yet have undoubtedly earned him a place in the mainstream of haute couture.

Rebel Style
By G. Bruce Boyer
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 731 3; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Between the end of World War II and the election of John F. Kennedy there was a tremendous shift in Hollywood film: a fresh wave of actors (with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, and James Dean) whose talent and lives seemed to be inseparable in their work, came to the forefront of film-making.  This Rebel style brought a completely new attitude and look to the screen; the leather jacket and provocative stare of a Brando, the prole clothes and the broodingly cool demeanor of a Clift became the aesthetic correlative of an American version of the existentialist view of life. G. Bruce Boyer analyzes the sartorial and philosophical revolution brought about by the representatives of this first counterculture, and the evolution of the Rebel style.

The Kennedys
2 Hardcover volumes with jackets in slipcase
Price: $34.95; ISBN 2 84323 787 4; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages, 60 color and b/w photographs; hardcover, jacket, for each
Jackie’s beauty and the saga of her life; JFK’s allure and his modern understanding of politics: all these elements combine to create a sensitive album of two exceptional personalities who became a legendary couple. Who were the Kennedys? Numerous biographies have been written on one of the most glamorous couple that ever existed.  Yet very few have tried to show their life in a simple, direct way: with pictures.  It might precisely be an adequate approach to understanding what JFK and Jackie used to be and live.  Filled with pictures of the couple’s public and private life, The Kennedy’s – a slipcase comprising Jackie and JFK – reveals the underlying simplicity and authenticity of two people the world insisted on turning into legends.  Jackie’s beauty and saga of her life; JFK allure and his modern understanding of politics: all these elements combine to create a sensitive album of two exceptional personalities who made a legendary couple.

• JFK: A Time for Greatness By Jacques LoweUsing excerpts taken from JFK’s most famous speeches, as well as emblematical photographs by Jacques Lowe, JFK tells us about the man, his message, and his legend.  A privileged observer and a friend of the deceased president, Lowe pays an ultimate tribute to the man who, despite the years, is still as present as over.
• Jackie By Nicole Salinger When Jackie became the youngest and most elegant First Lady that America had known, the whole world succumbed to her charm.  This book provides an abundantly illustrated, first-hand perspective on Jackie’s most vital interest and concerns, from her valiant struggles to protect her family, to her lifelong dedication to art and learning.

MEMOIRES: ART
Raymond Loewy
By Philippe Tretiak
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 774 2; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
While Andy Warhol is known for creating icons, it is Raymond Loewy who built monuments. At once an engineer and a visionary, this master of streamlined design integrated movement into his designs in what would become a characteristic American way. Indeed, his drawings of the Coca Cola truck, the Greyhound bus, the package of Lucky Strike cigarettes, the Studebaker automobile, and the bullet-nose train molded our vision of twentieth-century American iconography. Illustrated with photographs of Loewy’s most notable designs, this memoir pays a tribute to a man who shaped the image of an entire nation with his pencil strokes.

Marie Antoinette
By Adrien Goetz
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 753 X; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Everyone is fascinated by Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, by her temperament and independence, her escapades and frivolities.  A great lover, rebellious and defiant, she escapes into games and lived grandly, angering her subject, who never forgave her for her excessive spending.  Reviled by those who once adored her, she spent her last days imprisoned in the Conciergerie, but was royal right up to her death.  From her powdered pink boudoirs to her apartments filled with lacquered furniture, from her Trianon, which she refurnished entirely and to which she brought her lovers, to the laiterie,  where she took pride in playing the farmer, this book is a visual introduction to the women who influenced her time with her style, independence, mystery, and glamour.

Candy
By Delphine Moreau
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 749 1; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Mary Janes, Dots, Charms, Tootsie Rolls, Smarties, Chupa Chups lollypops. Candy is a sensual part of childhood.  First there’s the pleasure of seeing, then the practically mind-blowing pleasure of eating. And don’t forget the simple pleasure of the creative, colorful wrapping.  From the first candy shops in Medieval Europe to Tagada Strawberries that have delighted children worldwide, this book takes you on the historic journey of candy and sweets from New York to New Delhi, from Paris to Tokyo, London and beyond.  Enjoy this book like you would a handful of sweets from the shop. Slowly, but without a drop of guilt.

MEMOIRES: DESIGN
Charlotte Perriand
By Elisabeth Vedrenne
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 661 4; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
An important figure of modernism in the 1930s, and the principal protagonist of organic design in the 1950s, Charlotte Perriand was a true twentieth century pioneer.  Although her name has long been inseparable from that of Le Corbusier, in this volume, Charlotte Perriand is brought to a new light as her vital energy as well as the simple, rigorous, and natural forms of her furniture and integrated spaces are examined.  Ultimately, this is the portrait of a free and generous women – with a fascinating and active life – whose accomplishments continue to embellish out everyday life.

Fornasetti: Conversation with Philippe Stark
By Brigitte Fitoussi
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 679 7; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages, 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
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 objects and furniture is one of the largest in the twentieth century.  Perpetuating the workshop tradition today is his son Barnaba, who has revived his most popular pieces and created new ones. In an illustrated Memoire devoted to Piero Fornasetti’s work, the book critically discusses his contribution to twentieth century art and design, through the vision of Philippe Starck, a true amateur of this style.

Chema Madoz
By Christian Caujolle
Price: $18.95; ISBN 2 84323 154 X; 6 x 8 1/2/ 15.5 x 21.5 cm; 80 Pages; 60 Color and B&W Photographs; Hardcover, Jacket
Poised between poetry, surrealism and a smile, Chema Madoz reveals a world in which the absurd observes us at every moment.  His photos contain the world in a small envelope or a tiny wooden box. They have as their subject objects stripped of their primary function.  Behind their usual appearance, their strangeness is revealed and makes us question what is normal.

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Bon Voyage: Travel Suitcase
This light travel suitcase is the perfect gift for the weekend. With metal and wood finishing, it features a colorful selection of handmade vintage destination stickers from the most important hotels in the world. Reminiscent of old-time journeys, the suitcases are as functional as they are fashionable, and include the best travel titles from Assouline: Paris Hotel Stories, Hotel Stories, Island Hotel Stories and Adventure Hotel Stories; each book is wrapped in newspaper and embedded in tissue. The perfect accessory to inspire the traveler in each of us. Pre-order and reserve yours today! Available for shipping 10 April 2005 For more information please call 212. 989. 6769. Available at Assouline www.assouline.com (Limited Availability) $225

Assouline Library
For the most discerning bibliophiles, Assouline has created a contemporary library featuring a fine selection of publications. The sleek, hand-made metal and wood structure was crafted in Italy and embraces the modern aesthetic that is Assouline. The 139 books are grouped according to collections and series, and metal plaques distinguish the titles. As a finishing touch, they have also included 3 Assouline candles to distil the atmosphere for the creation of a library with style. $13, 995

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The most elegant and chic, portable and contemporary library case has been custom-made by Coach to hold 40 of Assouline’s “must have” Memoire reference books on art, fashion, design and architecture. These distinctive saddle-stitched white leather library cases, lined with dark red suede, display the Assouline logo on a metal plaque in the front. $1, 495

Assouline Fine Vintage
These handcrafted wooden crates hold collections of books culled from Assouline’s new titles and bestsellers. Available in two subject categories; Art & Design: Eileen Gray, Robert Indiana, Pierre Paulin, Antiquaires, Rajasthan, Asian Art, African Forms and The Art Game Book. Fashion & Lifestyle: Diane von Furstenberg, Emilio Pucci, The Leather Book, Hitchcock Style, In the Spirit of Cannes, Ultimate Style, Chanel Set and Hollywood $395.

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An aluminum multi-tiered shelving library holds an assortment of five Assouline style books. Choices include: Hitchcock Style, Weddings of Style, In the Spirit of Cannes, Island Hotel Stories, In the Spirit of St. Tropez, Royal Holidays, Paris Hotel Stories, Be My Guest, Chef Daniel Boulud, Dressing in the Dark, French Riviera, In the Spirit of Aspen, Timeless Tiaras, Hotel Stories and Happy Times .$400

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One hundred limited-edition, custom-made trunks created in collaboration with the famous craftsman Goyard . Each trunk houses 100 of Assouline’s famous Memoire photo-biographies, a ‘who’s who” of art, design, fashion and architecture. $11,495

Photographic Portfolio
A 16 x 20’ finely crafted portfolio contains the brilliant work of renowned photographers and artists like Serge Lutens, Keiichi Tahara and Oberto Gili, as well as photographs of Leo Castelli’s art collection in his apartment. Each portfolio comes with an original print. $1,000

Rajasthan Collectors Edition
An exceptional special edition of Rajasthan, each book is bound in raw silk. Comes wrapped in a one-of-a-kind vintage Rajasthani shawl, making each edition completely unique. $600

Memoire Gift Box
This original gift box houses four titles from the Assouline Memoire collection. Each book is specially wrapped. Available in four categories, this gift box will become indispensable for every event of your social life. Art: Gauguin, Indiana, The Dada Spirit, and Picasso. Men: Moulin Rouge, Jean Cocteau, Cuff Links and Greek Beauty . Fashion: Diane von Furstenberg, Emilo Pucci, Gruau and The Little Black Dress . Publishers Choice: Indian Beauty, Pierre Paulin, Eileen Gray and Codognato .$150

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