Two visually stunning, escapist coffee table books exhibit the worlds of two artistic geniuses. For your oh-so-correct beach house this summer, pick up “Houses of the Sundown Sea: The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner” (Abrams), by Lisa Germany, and “Silent … Read More
She died 50 years ago, but Marilyn Monroe remains wildly alive and kicking in pop iconography. Now with Taschen’s new limited-edition monograph, Norman Mailer, Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe, never-before seen photographs of Hollywood’s most tragic and enigmatic kid-in-the-picture keeps teasing … Read More
A photo-excerpt revisiting the belles (and beaux) of the greatest 20th century balls, and why costuming was critical to putting your best face forward in those good old days. Nicholas Foulkes’ Bals, a coffee table-crunching tome landing in time for … Read More
A trio of tomes defying our wimpy times land with a big, bad-ass bang from three visual giants who occupied Manhattan when it was the great and powerful Gotham. Bow to, and unbind them. Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson and Martin … Read More
A sultry new tome puts faces (and tushes) on the country where futebol, faith and teensy-weensy bikinis come together as a lifestyle holy trinity. Hey, blame it on Rio. Armand Limnander’s “Brazilian Style” captures a nation and a culture of … Read More
Faulkner pined for an airplane. Fitzgerald fantasized about fancy cars. And, as is evident in the new tell-all, Hemingway’s Boat, Papa wanted (and got) Pilar, his beloved fishing boat. How then did all their objects of desire act as the … Read More
The man who brought pizazz to our suit linings and perfect fit to our suits is celebrated in a refined new book by his-truly. The book to watch for in early spring is “Paul Smith,” by Paul Smith, with interviews … Read More
Volume 1 of two photo-anthologies by provocateurs Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin hits art-book stores with a 100-pound thump. A collaboration of 20 years shooting fashion, ad campaigns, editorial portraits and general madness, the duo’s Pretty Much Everything (Taschen) … Read More
‘The Savoy Cocktail Book’ and ‘The PDT Cocktail Book’ are the go-to drink recipe tomes for X-mas and onward, no! And they have pictures inside too! Remember the good ole days when cocktail books used illustrations to, well, illustrate, drinks? … Read More
Former Domino editor shows ‘how to decorate & live well’. With so-chic illustrations by Virginia Johnson, Deborah Needleman- now editor of WSJ magazine-culls all the great stuff she learned and provided as editor of the much-missed Domino magazine within the … Read More
New book chronicling 1970′s Key West tells the secret history of Margaritaville. If Key West was magical enough to inspire Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Jimmy Buffet, and Tom McGuane to move there, it should inspire you to take the 3-hour jaunt … Read More
The hot party season ticket this fall is Assouline’s coffee table remembrance of great things past, the debauched and delicious par-tays of the 20th century. There’s nearly 300 photos of how they did it right, from Art Deco Paris to … Read More
Michael Gross’s ’90s exposé on the rise and fall of the supermodel gets re-issued Remember those singularly-named stiletto-ed Amazonians (Cindy, Naomi, Claudia, Linda, Iman), Times Square’s Model Cafe (ha-ha) and that amazing, rousing, vogue-ing music-video for George Michael’s “Faith”? Remember … Read More
The Devil All the Time This new novel is proof that there is, and isn’t, a God. Written by a middle-aged Ohio man who spent 32 years working in paper mills and slaughterhouses before sitting down and trying to earn … Read More
Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Ernest Hemingway books coming for your fall reading and style. Sick of namby-pambies? This fall, book publishers are rolling out tomes–both photo and biographical–about three of the world’s most manly and iconic greats. Cooper, Wayne … Read More
