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While most people lack the resources necessary to acquire even a lesser-known piece—or a couture gown or a 15th-century botanical illustration—books showcasing such works are more accessible. We highlight 12 worthy picks, followed by another 20 notable titles. Eames and his wife, Ray, were postwar designers of furniture, industrial objects, film, and fine arts, most famous for the molded plywood and leather lounge chair and ottoman first produced in and still popular today. Cy Twombly — came to fame in the late s for his large paintings rendered in gray and white tones with occasional splashes of color, filled with scribble-like lines and scrawled phrases from literature and mythology. He went on to earn numerous prizes, most notably the Praemium Imperiale, yet remains less familiar to the general public than many of his abstract expressionist colleagues. The Essential Cy Twombly D. Susan Middleton dedicated seven years to photographing spindly barnacles, diaphanous jellyfish, and bright pink snails.
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If you have a coffee table, you need a book on it. Hundreds of previously unseen photographs that perfectly capture the sensual and euphoric atmosphere of the most famous festival in the history. Look at this crowd.
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Looking for a special book that someone will love showing off? Our editors chose books that suit a coffee table or special bookshelf. Skip to main content. Coffee Table Eye Candy Looking for a special book that someone will love showing off? The Life and Love of the Sea Oct 6, FREE Shipping on eligible orders.
One of my very favorite things to buy, read, and collect are coffee table books. I'm just a sucker for them. These large format tomes--some surpass pages--are like gorgeous picture books for adults. Their size and scale make them ideal to showcase illustration, photography, and layouts. And as someone with a print magazine background and a strong affinity print design, a well laid out spread in a large coffee table book is deeply satisfying. I also have a few rules for coffee table books. First, I'm not a big fan of the behind-the-scenes art books that coincide with new film releases.
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The first monograph dedicated to the woman who was muse to not only Yves Saint Laurent, but also an entire generation of French couture. Cigarette not required. An inside look at the only decade Christian Dior stood at the helm of his eponymous Parisian fashion empire. The Mad Men —era fashion and advertising photographs from an artist who began his career photographing the explosion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima during World War II. A mammoth compendium of ephemera from the set of the film which turned 75 this year!
Please refresh the page and retry. T his tome was first published in , at which time Grace Coddington was relatively unknown. Since then, she's unwittingly found fame thanks to her scene-stealing appearance in The September Issue. It's a beautiful collection of the British stylist's most breath-taking shoots from her years spent working at both British and American Vogue and includes anecdotes from her collaborations with such legends as Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn. K ate Moss is a phenomenom like no other.
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