Bonnettstown is an example of an early 18th-century Georgian manor situated in the countryside near Kilkenny, Ireland. Photographer Andrew Bush visited the estate and photographed the house and its surroundings from many aspects, all of which are included in this volume.

Throughout his travels, Bruce Chatwin took thousands of photographs and completed a number of notebooks, featuring such subjects as Nouakchott shanty towns and Moorish travellers. This book presents a collection of these documentations.

Aristocrats, millionaires, painters, fashion designers, choreographers, and musicians of the café society fox-trot aboard cruise liners and mingle at dazzling parties in Paris. Through archival photographs and period documents, this volume recounts in historical detail the intrigue and impact generated around the world by the stylist cafe society.

Known for subverting the conventions of fashion and celebrity photography, Teller here turns his iconoclastic eye to the two-Michelin-starred food of chef Antonio Guida in Eating at Il Pellicano. Eleven menus of five courses encapsulate the unique, offhanded chic of the Hotel Il Pellicano, in Teller’s second photographic collaboration with this exclusive Italian retreat.

Yousuf Karsh was one of the premier portrait photographers of the 20th century. Among the personalities portrayed in this volume are Marian Anderson, Pablo Casals, Marc Chagall, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Queen Elizabeth, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910-2007) was a pioneering female flight instructor during World War II, was a member of the US Olympic Ski Squad in 1939, competed in tennis at Wimbledon and was accomplished at riding and shooting. This book serves as a celebration of Taylor’s extraordinary wardrobe of couture and custom-designed sporting ensembles.

A captivating look at the glamorous, jet-setting lifestyles of those who frequent the legendary Hotel Il Pellicano, overlooking a secluded bay in Tuscany's Porto Ercole. One of the most beautiful destinations in the world, the chic Hotel Il Pellicano, located on the Argentario, is a hangout for many from the design, fashion, and art worlds.

A collection of black and white photographs by Herbert List that portray a dramatic interplay between light and shadow across different Greek landscapes.

When Maxime Gaillard opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale, his restaurant was soon discovered by the star socialite of the moment, Irma de Montigny, who launched it as a center of Parisian nightlife. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture and design, Maxim's remains faithful to this period and continues to be a symbol of Parisian luxury life. In this book, Jean-Pascal Hesse tells us the fascinating story of this legendary place along with also the restaurant most successful recipes, with accompanying illustrations.

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Near East documents photographer and designer Cecil Beaton's wartime assignment for the Ministry of Information in the Middle East during World War II. The book combines his photographs, including images of soldiers and ancient sites in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq along with his journalistic text that provides a unique pictorial history of the region during the conflict.

In 1996, Johnnie Shand Kydd began taking photographs of young British artists and their friends, dealers and critics at the centre of the art world. This collection of portraits is the result; a record of over 70 artists including Dinos and Jake Chapman, Damien Hurst and Gary Hume.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

The Sitwells were an aristocratic British literary family consisting of three siblings—Dame Edith Sitwell (poet), Sir Osbert Sitwell (writer and critic), and Sacheverell Sitwell (art and music historian)—who, along with their family, were influential cultural figures in the 20th century, known for their avant-garde tastes, eccentricity, and patronage of the arts, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s London scene. This illustrated biography of the Sitwell family accompanies a major 1994 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

This subtle yet powerful book of photographs blends evocative scenes from the many subcultures of Iturbide's native Mexico with the artist's own deeply personal, and oftentimes Surrealistic, vision.