Catalogue from Dulwich Picture Gallery in collaboration with theMus?e Marmottan Monet: it seems unbelievable but this is the first exhibition of Morisot's work in Britain since 1950!
A facsimile of an album of samples of English fabrics, with notes and essays by several contributors. The album takes its name from its compiler, John Holker ( 1719-1786), a Jacobite who esc... read more
Beautifully photographed; draws on the Dior Archive and conversations with Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of the fashion house. 3 vols in a slipcase.
By extraordinary chance, the author discovered an address book in the inner pocket of a vintage diary dating back to 1951. It disclosed an amazing list of luminaries from the European avant-... read more
"I have borne the musket of a soldier, the traveller's cane, and the pilgrim's staff: as a sailor my fate has been as inconstant as the wind: a kingfisher, I have made my nest among the wave... read more
"I have borne the musket of a soldier, the traveller's cane, and the pilgrim's staff: as a sailor my fate has been as inconstant as the wind: a kingfisher, I have made my nest among the wave... read more
A biography of Marguerite Steinheil (1869-1954), who ascended the social ladder in Belle Epoque Paris on the rungs of many lovers, until a night in May 1908 when her husband and mother were ... read more
An Alpine hotel with a room missing, a private bank in Switzerland, skullduggery over an inheritance, a ravishing young woman - just some of the layers in this fiendish onion of a novel.
When Matisse was commissioned by the collector Albert C. Barnes (of what became the Barnes Foundation) to create a monumental mural - The Dance - he began to arrange his composition using ... read more
Glorious photographs of the Parisian skyline - zinc, slate and copper bliss, at dawn, at dusk. An accordian book that would stretch to over a hundred feet if fully extended... How can that ... read more
A beautiful book on Christian Dior, copious photographs, many old. The book is in fine condition, black cloth with the title indented on the cover and spine. The dust jacket is good, creased... read more
A superb book on the life and work of the greatest couturier of the first half of the C20th; lavishly photographed. This is by far the best book on Poiret that has ever been. Glorious dresse... read more
After graduating in Germany in 1939, FH was sent as an archivist to Paris, where he documented ordinary life throughout the war. He vanished in Berlin in 1945 and this is the first publicati... read more
Why was Cezanne revered by Rilke and Beckett, Picasso and Matisse? And does that early modernity speak to us now? An illustrated, ravishing study of Cezanne's uneasy art by the great emeritu... read more
Complete catalogue of the Ashmolean's collection by French artists born between 1775 and 1875: Boilly, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Manet, the three Pisarros, Monet, Matisse etc.
A beguiling work of auto-fiction - a juggling act that Carrère refined in Limonov, The Kingdom etc. He begins a ten-day retreat, lit by the sun of literary success, but desperate matters in... read more
Born in Russia, Poplavsky fled to Paris in the Revolution, where he become a literary and artistic enfant terrible of the emigré circles of Montparnasse. This novel, translated into English... read more
This long interview, recorded with the Swiss critic Pierre Courthion when the artist was recovering from an operation in bed during the Nazi Occupation, was never published - until now.
A celebration of Saint Laurent's life and work with contributions by many tastebuds - Hamish Bowles, Diane von Furstenberg, Umberto Pasti, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, et alia.
Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934) was a French photographer who assembled a remarkable collection that ranges from photography's beginnings to c.1890. This collection never found a permanent home o... read more
Ruthlessly funny memoir of working front of house: the great deception of ease, of luxe, calme et volupte , of lamplight and conversation, while, behind the swing doors, rages a very differe... read more
The spark for this remarkable memoir was a scribbled list of paintings that belonged to the Parisian author's great-grandparents - Degas, Renoir, Monet, Tiepolo etc - of which she knew nothi... read more
A powerful coming-of-age story - and its consequences for others - by the French-Mauritian writer who won the Prix Femina des Lyceens for The Tropic of Violence.
Haussmann eat your heart out... these elegant watercolours and ink drawings are a boulevardier's delight. Accompanied by a text by a French ironmaster.