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books....Paris Was Ours: 32 Writers Reflect on the City of Light
Paris Was Ours is a collection of essays about the transformative effect of living in the French capital. It answers the question that I, as the book's editor, asked myself when I first dreamed up the idea: Why, of all the places I've lived, did Paris affect me the most? I gave the contributors carte blanche to weigh in on any facet of Parisian life they wanted to discuss. My only stricture was that they convey a true sense of what life in this fairly difficult urban center is like. I wasn't after flagrant francophilia but, rather, a more nuanced, realistic view. Some of the writers are out-and-out famous -- Stacy Schiff, Edmund White, Diane Johnson, and Judith Thurman are just a few names that come to mind; others are less so, but no less intriguing. And one contributor, a French blogger, would never call herself a writer at all. I was delighted with the diversity of their essays and particularly pleased to include work by writers who come from beyond the United States, from Iraq to Cuba, Canada to Iran. For more information, please follow the link above to the book's Web site. A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters
This biography of the legendary editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 was published in the United States by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, in 2005 and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand the following year. Atria released a paperback edition in 2008 and a Kindle one in 2010. First serial rights were sold to Vogue in the United States (for its must-read September issue) and, in the United Kingdom, to Harper's Bazaar. In 2006, Dash was named a Notable Book by Waterstone's, the British bookselling chain. Jean Prouvé: Visionary Humanist
A tiny, visually sumptuous volume (from the Compact Design series) on Jean Prouvé, the constructeur -- builder -- who worked with some of the most forward-thinking European architects of his day. Everything he touched, including his aerodynamic, yet deeply unassuming furniture designs, still looks modern, more than half a century on. Eileen Gray: Modern Alchemist
Another small, beautifully-designed volume from the Compact Design series, this one about Eileen Gray, an Irishwoman long resident in France, who began her design work by mastering the ancient, near-impossible craft of lacquerwork, then moved on to create furniture and houses of a still-striking modernity. Weekend Houses
A look at 27 diverse vacation residences all over North America, inside and out. Breathtakingly photographed by my coauthor, Mark Darley, who shot almost all of these homes in natural light. |
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