Books

Author Antonio Ghini


A new updated edition of the volume released in 2020 with the history of Lamborghini.

This official book is dedicated to the history of the Italian car brand founded in Sant’Agata Bolognese in 1963 by Ferruccio Lamborghini. Ferruccio’s dream was to create the perfect car and still today, more than half a century later, Lamborghini continues to produce super sport cars that are sought after and renowned throughout the world.
The book is divided into five macro-sections:


Where: In Sant’Agata Bolognese, Emilia, Italy—a small remote village now known throughout the world.



How: With the ingredients that make it unique—the passion of the local people, mechanical purity and unstoppable technical innovation, forward-looking design, stylish and original use of color, and a constant dialogue with new generations.



Who: Lamborghini’s strength is its people, from the past and the present, who deserve respect for what they do and what they have done.



When: The history of Lamborghini spans from 1963 to today, from the brilliant moments from the past to the successes of today, as well as the more difficult periods that were overcome with great dignity and commitment.



Why: All the models that have shaped the history of Lamborghini are illustrated here, including special editions, those that underwent significant evolution, and unreleased models.



About The Author

Antonio Ghini is a journalist and brand marketing and communications specialist who started his career in racing. He worked first at Renault as Director of Communication for Italy, then as Global Director of Communication and Brand Management at Ferrari. Today he works as a journalist and consultant in the automotive sector.

Publish Date: October 10, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: Transportation - Automotive - Antique & Classic

Publisher: Rizzoli

Pages: 240

Signature Houses: Private Homes by Great Italian Designers

Text by Chiara Dal Canto, Photographs by Lorenzo Pennati



This inspiring volume takes readers on a tour of luxurious interiors that showcase the best of Italian design and architecture.
As part of the series dedicated to “Made in Italy” architecture and design (Carlo Scarpa, Piero Portaluppi), this latest book features a stunning collection of interiors by acclaimed Italian designers and architects from the second half of the twentieth century. Each of these exquisite spaces perfectly embodies the designer’s unique creative spirit, encapsulating both the essence of the designer’s personal style and taste with the trends of the era.

The ten projects, all specially photographed for the book, include such names in Italian architecture and design as: Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Osvaldo Borsani, Piero and Barnaba Fornasetti, among others. Ranging from residential to office spaces, each of these unique spaces has remained largely unchanged, and decades later they still speak for those who conceived of and inhabited them: Casa Fornasetti provides a unique testimony to the world of Piero Fornasetti, and now that of his son, Barnaba, who carries on his work and brand with strength and innovation; Casa Mollino represents the peak of architect Carlo Mollino’s ideas, beautifully serving as his aesthetic and conceptual legacy; and the vibrant, ironic, colorful Casa Quarestani perfectly sums up the poetic vision of Ettore Sottsass.

This book will be a must have for lovers of bold design and stylish Italian interiors.



About The Author

Chiara Dal Canto was born in Turin and studied philosophy. She writes on architecture and design for numerous Italian and international periodicals. Lorenzo Pennati is an interiors and advertising photographer. He works with many specialty publications in Italy and internationally, including Elle Decoration China and UK, Wohnrevue, Architectural Digest, and Marie Claire Maison.

Publish Date: March 07, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: House & Home - Decorating & Furnishings

Publisher: Rizzoli

Pages: 224

This new bilingual French/English edition offers colorful poses and a bilingual display of the poses. Following on from the PedaYOGA guide and the various accompanying educational books, author France Hutchison presents a game that will get children moving while practicing yoga poses. What better way to learn, move, let off steam, and focus than with the Bingo YOGA game? Parents, teachers, and children alike will know how to play this reinvented bingo game!

Edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cécile Girardeau, Author Yaëlle Biro and Simonetta Fraquelli and Cécile Girardeau and Marie-Amélie Senot


Edited with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, this catalog demonstrates how Modigliani’s partnership with his gallerist Paul Guillaume influenced his painting.

Amedeo Modigliani, a Jewish-Italian painter, arrived in Paris in 1906. His meeting with Constantin Brancusi in 1909 inspired Modigliani to sculpt—almost exclusively—until 1914, when he met art dealer Paul Guillaume. He returned to painting and produced countless portraits from 1914 until his death in 1920. Modigliani painted prominent contemporaries such as Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob, but also unknown models and the women in his life, including writer Béatrice Hastings and painter Jeanne Hébuterne, his partner and the mother of his child. Guillaume encouraged Modigliani, rented him an atelier in Montmartre, promoted his paintings in Parisian art and literary circles and abroad, and bought, sold, and collected more than a hundred of his paintings, fifty drawings, and a dozen sculptures. Guillaume’s writings offer intimate insight into Modigliani, highlighting their rapport and shared interests in African art, literature, and poetry. Modigliani in turn immortalized Guillaume in four portraits. This volume accompanies an exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie (September 20, 2023–January 15, 2024).



About The Author

Cécile Girardeau is a curator at the Musée de l’Orangerie. Simonetta Fraquelli is an independent curator and art historian. Yaëlle Biro is assistant curator of African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Marie-Amélie Senot is a curator of modern and contemporary art.

Publish Date: February 06, 2024

Format: Hardcover

Category: Art - Individual Artists - Monographs

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 168

Author Jean-Dominique Rey, Foreword by Sylvie Patry

A detailed and highly personal account of the life and works of Berthe Morisot, the most influential female impressionist painter.

Berthe Morisot won over the impressionists with her talent and became the first woman of the group alongside Monet, Degas, and Renoir. She was the foremost female painter of the impressionist movement and, to quote Apollinaire, “one of the most complete artists of her day.” Underestimated for more than a century, today her works demonstrate how visionary she was, pioneering a new style of painting.

Including correspondence with key members of the impressionist movement, this book focuses on the most important stages of Morisot’s career: her precocious artistic talent as a child, her participation at age twenty-three in the Salon de Paris of 1864, her marriage in 1874 to Eugène Manet and the birth of their daughter, Julie—a frequent subject in Morisot’s paintings—and the expressive freedom of her later works. This intimate portrait of the artist and her work is an essential reference on the impressionists.



About The Author

The late Jean-Dominique Rey, art historian and writer, curated numerous exhibitions and published many books including Monet Water Lilies: The Complete Series (Flammarion, 2008/2018). Sylvie Patry, global artistic director for the Kamel Mennour contemporary art gallery in Paris, is former director of conservation and collections at the Musée d’Orsay, and former conservation consultant at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.





Publish Date: September 05, 2023

Format: Trade Paperback

Category: Art - Individual Artists - Monographs

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 224

Author Jean-Louis Cohen and Guillemette Morel Journel

This broad survey of modernism—the most scintillating creative era in Paris—spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography.

The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassaï, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

About The Author

Jean-Louis Cohen is France’s most authoritative historian of twentieth-century architecture. He has published more than forty books, including Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces (Flammarion, 2021), and curated numerous architectural expositions. He is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture department at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and holds a chair at the Collège de France. Guillemette Morel Journel is an architect and urbanist; she has published several books on Le Corbusier including Villa Savoye.

Publish Date: October 17, 2023
Format: Hardcover
Category: Art - History - Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945)
Publisher: Flammarion
Pages: 356

Author Didier Ottinger

George Condo’s unconventional paintings are illuminated in context with his vast range of artistic influences—from Tiepolo to Picasso to Basquiat, and from psychedelic to new wave.

George Condo is renowned for his eclectic mix of artistic influences—from the Old Masters to cubism to pop art. The artist who coined the term “artificial realism” blends imagery and styles from various movements in works that critique contemporary Western culture and its excesses. His paintings and sculptures feature Humanoids—figures that are metaphors of our humanity, magnifying our emotions and revealing our high and low points. For the first time in his own words, Condo reveals the genesis and significance of his distorted creations and unveils previously unseen paintings created during the pandemic and the political turmoil in the United States.

Didier Ottinger examines the career, influences, and works of this unconventional artist who is at once rewriting the history of art and caricaturing the immoderation of the modern world. An exhibition of Condo’s Humanoids at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opens nearly a quarter century after he created set and costume designs for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

About The Author

Didier Ottinger, general curator of heritage and specialist in modern and contemporary painting, is assistant director of cultural programming at the Centre Pompidou where he curated exhibitions on Edward Hopper (2013), David Hockney (2017), and Georgia O’Keeffe (2022). American artist George Condo’s work is in the permanent collections of the Met, MoMA, Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, Tate, and Centre Pompidou. Exhibitions of his work have been shown in New York, London, Rotterdam, Berlin, Venice, Shanghai, and more. H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover is a philanthropist.

Publish Date: September 05, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: Art - Individual Artists - Monographs

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 192

Vintage Egypt: Cruising the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel

Author Alain Blottiere

As wealthy tourists descended upon Egypt in the early-twentieth-century, a well-heeled jet set emerged in Cairo and Alexandria. Period photographs celebrate the glamour: a Bugatti at the foot of the pyramids, high tea served in jasmine-draped gardens. . .

About The Author

Alain Blottiére lives in Egypt and France.

Publish Date: September 01, 2009

Format: Trade Paperback

Category: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 216

Techniques from the Ferrandi School of Culinary Arts

Author FERRANDI Paris


The ultimate reference on hearty French charcuterie boards and other savory spreads from FERRANDI Paris.

This complete course on charcuterie, which comprises cooked terrines, pâtés, and savory pies, from the world-renowned culinary school FERRANDI Paris includes seventy French charcuterie recipes with step-by-step instructions for preparing doughs, sausages, and a variety of meat and meatless spreads. Recipes are organized by category—pâtés, pies, and tarts; terrines and pressed meats; rillettes and pulled meats and fish; stuffed dishes; and cooked charcuterie.

Written by the school’s experienced teaching team of master chefs and adapted for the home cook, this cookbook explains the fundamentals of French charcuterie recipes, including condiments to accompany them (chutney, mustard, pickled vegetables), the importance of quality ingredients (meat, fish, vegetables), and cooking and conservation techniques.

From country pâté to eggplant miso terrine, Scotch eggs to stuffed tomatoes, blood sausage ravioli to duck Parmentier, mushroom and potato pie to beef Rossini, chickpea and vegetable terrine to a revisited croque monsieur, the easy-to-follow recipes are graded for difficulty, allowing readers to hone skills over time. The French comfort food tradition has been elevated by the team at Ferrandi with a touch of modernity by reinterpreting certain recipes for vegetarians. This extensive reference—replete with 200 illustrations—provides everything both home chefs and experienced professionals need to master the world-class culinary school’s recipes.



About The Author

FERRANDI Paris opened in 1920 to train culinary professionals. Internationally renowned for excellence, the school offers courses of all levels to students from France and abroad. They published French Pâtisserie (2017), Chocolate (2019), Vegetables (2020), and Fruits and Nuts(2021).



Publish Date: February 21, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: Cooking - Regional & Ethnic - French

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 288

The Most Beautiful Villages of France: Discover 164 Charming Destinations

Author Les Plus Beaux Villages De France

Discover the 158 most picturesque villages to visit in France in the newest edition of this illustrated travel guide.

From Vézelay with its UNESCO listed Sainte-Madeleine basilica, to Piana’s dramatic cliffs in Corsica, and from Ménerbes’s Provençal charm to Olargues’s origins dating back to prehistory, this illustrated guide unveils the beauty of rural France, providing complete visitor information for these exceptionally preserved destinations. Carefully selected each year, the featured French villages are replete with historical, architectural, and natural riches.

A brief history of each village is accompanied by recommendations for monuments, museums, places to visit, accommodation options ranging from hotels to campsites, restaurants, markets, artisanal products and local specialties. Details on leisure activities encompass festivals, events, and excursions that encourage visitors to explore the surrounding area on foot, by canoe, or on horseback.

This fully updated new edition includes a supplement on the history of more than twenty sweet gourmet regional specialties. In addition to an overview map of France, each village is featured on an easy-to-read detail road map, accompanied by indications for the best way to arrive by car, train, and airplane. Suggestions for neighboring villages that should not be missed simplify itinerary planning. Cross references and an index by region complete this practical, authoritative, and accessible illustrated guide.



About The Author

Les Plus Beaux Villages de France, founded in 1982, protects and promotes the heritage of villages rigorously selected for their patrimonial wealth and architectural quality. It pioneered an international federation of the Most Beautiful Villages of the World, which is committed to sustainable development and the preservation of historical and cultural heritage in Belgium, Quebec, Italy, and Japan.


Publish Date: May 03, 2022

Format: Trade Paperback

Category: Travel - Europe - France

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 280

Entre Nous: Bohemian Chic in the 1960s and 1970s: A Photo Memoir by Mary Russell

Photographs by Mary Russell, Edited by Pierre Passebon



Glamorous fashion editor Mary Russell's personal photographs capture the effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s from within the international fashion and art scenes.

As Paris fashion correspondent for Glamour, Vogue, Women's Wear Daily, and the New York Times, and as photo stylist for Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Lord Snowdon, Francesco Scavullo, and Henry Clarke, Mary Russell both captured the mood and became part of the international clique of elite bohemians who ruled the world of art and fashion. Participating in fashion history as it happened, Russell traveled from couture events to glamorous holidays with the people who invented cool modernity, mining the élan of the period and exploding the boundaries between reportage and fashion.

Published here for the first time and accompanied by Russell's personal memoirs, this collection includes intimate portraits of Andy Warhol's visit to Paris with the Factory, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé's circle, Jane Birkin, Peter Beard, Gunter Sachs, and others.



About The Author

Mary Russell's career in fashion journalism was launched when Diana Vreeland recommended her for a job at Glamour in New York; she eventually opened the magazine's Parisian office. She worked closely with celebrities from film, fashion, music, and dance. Pierre Passebon owns the Galerie du Passage in Paris.

Publish Date: March 10, 2020

Format: Hardcover

Category: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Fashion

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 112

Bordeaux Grands Crus Classés 1855: Wine Châteaux of the Médoc and Sauternes

Author Hugh Johnson and Franck Ferrand, Photographs by Guillaume de Laubier, Foreword by Philippe Castéja



Step inside the châteaux of the fabled red wines of the Médoc and white wines of Sauternes on this insider’s tour, complete with tasting notes for the great vintages.
The landmark creation of the Grands Crus Classés in 1855 set the benchmark for wine quality around the world. The sixty-one reds of the Médoc and twenty-seven whites of Sauternes are considered the finest wines in the world. The care that goes into creating these exceptional wines is an art, and the picturesque domaines where this craft is perfected are as beautiful as their wines are refined. This is the first book dedicated to the red and white wines that offers the history of each domaine, along with a guide to the great vintages and an address book to the vineyards. Newly commissioned photographs capture the region throughout the seasons, making this handsome volume both a glorious voyage and an important reference for any wine lover.

The wineries stand beside the stunning properties and belie the meticulous and magical work that they shelter, where a long line of elite winemakers fastidiously watch over the laborious tradition that has defined these exceptional wines for more than 150 years. A château’s history can be a riveting saga, but it invariably demonstrates that the splendor of great Bordeaux wines resides in perfect balance.

This volume includes a focus on Château d’Yquem, a Premier cru supérieur and the only wine of the Sauternes region to be awarded this rating through the 1855 classification.



About The Author

Franck Ferrand is a historian. Hugh Johnson is a world-famous wine expert, and Philippe Castéja is President of the Conseil des Grands Crus Classés in 1855. Guillaume de Laubier is a lifestyle photographer.

Publish Date: February 06, 2018

Format: Hardcover

Category: Cooking - Beverages - Alcoholic - General

Publisher: Flammarion

Pages: 264

Spritz Fever! Sixty Champagne and Sparkling Wine Cocktails

Author Elouise Anders, Illustrated by Sarah Hankinson



Become a certified fizz whiz with this illustrated guide to creating sixty ultra-refreshing spritz cocktails.

The 60 spritz recipes in Spritz Fever! are in the cocktail style of the decade. Seeing as most spritzes are low(ish) in ABV (well, certainly lower than wine, anyway), they're the ideal companion for any day-drinking event. Plus, as most Instagram feeds can attest, spritzes aren't just a drink...they're a lifestyle. These bubbly wonders speak to a careless Italian summer spent reclining by the beach in fine and flowing linen.

What can be so easy to forget is that spritzes are so much more than just Aperol and bubbles. In this book, you'll learn about the classic European liqueurs, like Cynar, Campari, Luxardo Bitter, Meletti, and more. Moreover, you'll discover the nuances between prosecco, cava, and champagne can create different textures as the bubbles in each effervesce uniquely. Plus, read up on how citrus garnishes must be matched appropriately to each drink's flavor profile and, of course, color. Above all, the perfect ratio of liqueur-to-bubbles changes for each recipe. Spritz Fever! explains all of this, alongside its dreamy illustrations.

It's time you get to the very essence of effervescence. Your next party guests will love all the cocktail recipes you glean from Spritz Fever!, and just in time for summer!
About The Author

Elouise Anders is a mixologist turned culture writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She also consults the city's finest bars and restaurants on how to best curate their drinks list. Sarah Hankinson is a food and fashion illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia.

Publish Date: September 03, 2019

Format: Hardcover

Category: Cooking - Beverages - Alcoholic - Bartending & Cocktails

Publisher: Smith Street Books

Pages: 152

How to Be French: Eat Drink Dress Travel Love

Author Janine Marsh

Delve into the art of loving and living in every moment.

What does it mean to be French?

Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? Being a flâneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic?

This book is a celebration of the French lifestyle—an education in drinking to savor the moment, travelling indulgently, and cherishing food and culture. A lesson in the joy of taking things slowly. We may not all live in France, but anyone can learn how to be un petit plus français with this guide by Janine Marsh.



About The Author

Janine Marsh is a writer and Francophile with one foot in France and one foot in the UK. In 2012, she set up The Good Life France to keep in touch with family and friends. Today, she reaches millions of readers, has written three best-selling books, publishes The Good Life France as a quarterly magazine, and hosts The Good Life France podcast.

Publish Date: October 31, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: Reference - Personal & Practical Guides

Publisher: Smith Street Books

Pages: 216

Peináo: A Greek Feast for All: Recipes to Feed Hungry Guests

Author Helena Moursellas and Vikki Moursellas


Modern Greek feasts to feed those you love.
Peináo is a contemporary celebration of traditional tried-and-tested Greek food, delivered feast style: cooking for roommates, brunch with your besties, or making Sunday dinner for the whole family. It isn’t another taverna cookbook; authors Helena and Vikki Moursellas are here to share their fun and modern spins on the Greek classics, presented in a beautiful coffee table cookbook.

Peináo translates to “I’m hungry” in Greek, and that’s how you’ll feel flipping through this book. Whether you’re cooking for a dinner party, breakfast with the in-laws, a mezze with the neighbors—name the occasion or palette and there is a suitable, mouthwatering feast to accompany it, presented with love and a great story that will leave readers with warmth in their hearts and their stomachs.



About The Author

Helena and Vikki Moursellas are identical twins born in Adelaide, South Australia. They learned how to cook from their Greek grandmother, Koula, and grew up with a passion and love for Greek cuisine. Finalists on Australian TV show My Kitchen Rules, the twins won the hearts of the nation with their Greek family food. In 2015, they published their first cookbook Taking You Home: Simple Greek Food for Friends & Family with Hachette Books Australia.

They have spent the last ten years working in the food industry in Sydney and currently work in publishing. Helena and Vikki Moursellas are freelance food photography chefs, recipe developers, and content creators working with brands such as Bonnie and Neil, Bed Threads, WÜSTHOF, and Olea Olive Oil.

Publish Date: October 31, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: Cooking - Regional & Ethnic - Greek

Publisher: Smith Street Books

Pages: 256

Author Rosa Cienfuegos


Mexican recipes from one of the world’s most vibrant cities

CDMX is the follow-up cookbook to Comida Mexicana by Rosa Cienfuegos. It is a celebration of the food of Mexico City and the dishes that Rosa grew up eating and now recreates in her two Sydney restaurants: Tamaleria and Icatate. It is the food that chilangos (residents of Mexico City) enjoy at home, on the streets, in markets, and in cafes and bars. Authentic and often unique to Ciudad de México, as the locals call it, CDMX’s colorful recipes reflect the vibrancy, history, and modern urban life of Mexico’s liveliest city.
Filled with stunning food photography and on-the-scene shots of Mexico City, this is more than a cookbook. In addition to the unique dishes found only in the capital, CDMX is also where the country’s regional cuisines come together, giving you the opportunity to eat your way through Mexico without ever having to leave the city. CDMX is the Mexico City guide for those who crave authenticity and who strive to accurately recreate their favorite food memories or head straight to the source, visiting Rosa’s recommended bars, restaurants, street eats, and markets.



About The Author

Rosa Cienfuegos was born in Azcapotzalco, a suburb of Mexico City. She grew up surrounded by friends and family in this vibrant suburb before eventually relocating to Sydney, Australia, to be close to her father. Once in Sydney, she missed the food of her home country and began importing Mexican ingredients as a small business. This ignited the local Mexican community in Sydney, which encouraged Cienfuegos to open her tamaleria and sell the street-food dishes she loved most in Mexico. Fast-forward several years and her second restaurant, and deli, Icatate, opened in popular Redfern, extending her food offerings and authentic ingredients from Mexico City. She regularly returns to Mexico to gain more knowledge and insight into her beloved cuisine. CDMX is her second cookbook.

Publish Date: October 10, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Category: Cooking - Regional & Ethnic - Mexican

Publisher: Smith Street Books

Pages: 256