Description: The ultimate in luxury interior design, architect Laura Sessa guides readers through a personalised selection of her most striking interiors and furnishings.With poise, elegance, and attention to detail, Italian architect and interior designer Laura Sessa creates harmony and flow between interior and exterior spaces that are functional, colourful, and aesthetically pleasing.In this, her debut monograph, Sessa offers a sublime and beautifully curated selection of her most breathtaking interior designs from across the world, with commentary in her own words.These incredible designs are indicative not only of Sessa’s masterful use of colour, light, and atmosphere but also the personal input of her clients that lies at...
Fragonard: The Perfume of Provence – Alain Stella
Description: Celebrate a century of Provençal elegance and craftsmanship through the colorful and whimsical world of Maison Fragonard, a historic perfumer and purveyor of lifestyle goods.Fragonard’s rich history in crafting luxurious perfumes and designing fanciful objects for the home is recounted in this beautifully illustrated book. An ode to the essence of a unique Provençal and Riviera lifestyle, it showcases Fragonard’s exquisite perfume bottle collections alongside stunning interiors, furniture, and tableware, and highlights a century of elegant design and craftsmanship. Lavishly photographed, it offers readers an exuberant glimpse into the timeless charm of the French art of living well. In the 1920s, as the beauty of the...
The Art of Antiquing in France: Flea Markets – Brocantes – Antique Shops – Sharon Santoni, Photographs by Joanna Maclennan and Franck Schmitt
DescriptionThe essential guide on what to collect, how to select, and where to find the French antiques of your dreams, complete with expert tips and insider knowledge. After decades of antique hunting throughout France, Sharon Santoni offers invaluable insight on finding and collecting French antiques—from Provençal quilted boutis to floral transferware to landscape paintings—which exude a singular charm and bring cachet to the home. Through aspirational photographs, interviews with specialized dealers, and the savoir faire of a local, her comprehensive guide includes well-researched descriptions of the most popular French collectibles, including tableware, silverware, paintings, textiles, rugs and tapestries, jewelry, books and illustrations, furniture, chandeliers and mirrors, and architectural and...
Marie-Antoinette’s Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Herbarium
Elisabeth de Feydeau (author), Alain Baraton (editor)DescriptionA horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette’s domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century botanical watercolors from Pierre-Joseph Redouté and his contemporaries. Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette’s passion; she transformed the Petit Trianon’s gardens into an enchanted refuge from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book meanders through Marie-Antoinette’s estate as the queen herself would have walked it: traversing hyacinths, buttercups, and anemones in the French Gardens, via winding paths in the Anglo-Chinese Gardens, through the conifers of the Belvedere Gardens where fabulous nocturnal parties were hosted, past the entrancing aromas of the shrubs surrounding the Temple of Love, to the wildflowers of the Garden of...