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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 20 November 2018

As design element, ode to passion, big books are great gifts

By LEANNE ITALIE baud. Assouline.
Associated Press If you can afford a Rolex,
NEW YORK (AP) — Whether you can afford to gift this
as a design element or an stunning, limited-edition
ode to a passion or hobby, oversize book about the
coffee table books have it brand, its history and its
covered, especially as holi- celebrity following. By big,
day gifts. we mean 14-by-17 inches,
Splashy, special interest in a handcrafted clam-
books are in abundance shell case with color plates
this time of year and may hand-tipped on art qual-
seem extravagant when ity paper. The luxury time
self-purchased. That's ex- pieces are shown off on the
actly why wrapping them wrists of everybody from Pi-
up and handing them over casso to Pope John Paul II.
to a loved one can strike $845.
just the right tone. CULTURE
Some suggestions: "New York by New York,"
MUSIC by Wendell Jamieson. As-
"Women Who Rock: Bes- souline. "Something's al-
sie to Beyonce. Girl Groups ways happening here. If
to Riot Grrrl." Edited by Ev- you're bored in New York,
elyn McDonnell. Black Dog This cover image released by Guido Tommasi Publishing/ACC Distribution shows "Pantone it's your own fault." So says
& Leventhal. Yes, the dust Foodmood," a cookbook edited by Guido Tommasi. Myrna Loy in this gifty, pho-
jacket is bright pink, for bet- Associated Press to-driven tome with a fore-
ter or worse, but the essays had a lot of fun, and we re- sion from a tiny box house fixed on Moon's lens. Con- word by Jay McInerney.
are all-encompassing, as ally cared about what we into an expansive estate sider the Silver Phoenix fe- Big moments and little ones
the title suggests. Includes were doing. We wanted to still filled with items picked male paired with this from are celebrated. It took a
a range of writers, though be good at it." $40. by and created by Du- Virginia Woolf's "Night and two-page spread to do jus-
accompanying portrai- HOME quette and his wife, Eliza- Day": "I've done my best to tice in black and white to
ture may not be to taste. "City of Angels: House and beth. It's quirky and chic see you as you are, without Bianca Jagger marking her
Each profile is written by Gardens of Los Angeles," and comfy all at the same any of this damned roman- birthday in 1977 by mount-
a woman, with more than by Jennifer Ash Rudick and time. Have a look at the tic nonsense." $35. ing a white horse for a walk
100 in all. The subjects were Firooz Zahedi. The Vendom Monkey Room, a glassed- "Trees: Between Earth and into Studio 54, launching
chosen, as McDonnell says, Press. Drool worthy, eclec- in porch overlooking the Heaven," photographs by the club into the social
both painstakingly and ar- tic, renowned. These are in- garden. Duquette used it Art Wolfe, text by Gregory stratosphere. $250.
bitrarily as she went about teriors and outdoor spaces as storage and Wilkinson McNamee. Earth Aware FOOD
honoring "rock" as a verb, of film producers, directors, brought it to life. There's Editions. Wolfe is a land- "Food & Drink Infograph-
not a noun. $35. artists, photographers and the signature Duquette scape photographer who ics: A Visual Guide to Culi-
"Contact High: A Visual His- musicians. Over 25 houses, leopard-print carpet on has worked on every con- nary Pleasures," by Simone
tory of Hip-Hop," by Vikki bungalows, studios and the staircase leading down tinent. Here, he puts us Klabin, edited by Julius
Tobak. Clarkson Potter. Hip- compounds. The spaces to the summer and guest up close with a leopard Wiedermann. Taschen.
hop photographers share include homes designed bedrooms. $75. lounging in a thorn tree in Butchery in France, the
their contact sheets, paired by Frank Lloyd Wright and PHOTOGRAPHY Botswana. He shares the principles of molecular gas-
with interviews and essays. Rudolph Schindler, from "Vivian Maier: The Color colorful giant sequoias of tronomy, the health ben-
Spans nearly 40 years. Also Malibu and the Santa Mon- Work," by Colin Wester- California. Light dances efits of sweet cherries and
plenty of performance and ica Mountains to a Pacific beck. Harper Design. Re- through his images, as does everything you need to
audience imagery. There's Palisades villa decorated member the Chicago mys- the icy Moreno Glacier that know about chewing gum,
Fab 5 Freddy at a White by Oliver Furth. $75. tery nanny whose cache of serves as backdrop to the all represented in fun visu-
Castle in the Bronx, 1982. "From the Earth: World's some 150,000 prints, nega- tops of Southern beech in als that often double as art
Jump to 1993 for a never- Great, Rare and Almost tives, transparencies and Argentina. $75. in and of themselves. Some
before-seen photo of Tu- Forgotten Vegetables," rolls of undeveloped film FASHION are historical, others comi-
pac and Nas at a Club by Peter Gilmore. Hardie were discovered at auction "Roland Mouret: Provoke cal. Many may also be use-
Amazon party in Manhat- Grant Books. With hundreds after her death? Her name - Attract - Seduce," by Ro- ful in the kitchen or at the
tan. Time trip again to 2012 of varieties to choose from, was Vivian Maier and this land Mouret and Alexan- bar. $70.
Atlanta and Gucci Mane Australian chef Gilmore has book brings her meander- der Fury. Rizzoli. The French "Pantone Foodmood," ed-
on the set of the "Shooters" selected 50 heirloom veg- ing to life in color. One self- designer in conversation ited by Guido Tommasi.
video. $40. etables and plants. In the portrait says it all with a sliv- with fashion writer and Guido Tommasi Publishing/
"Hindsight & All the Things process, he delves into the er of her face reflected in a historian Fury. This ode to ACC Distribution. Drawing
I Can't See in Front of Me," history of both common va- hand mirror that rests on a Mouret and his company inspiration from the color
by Justin Timberlake. Harp- rieties and rare or nearly ex- bunch of yellow flowers on is more valuable for its Q- experts at Pantone, these
er Design. It's his first book, tinct ones. Interviews with street brick, from 1975. $80. and-A text than the photos dishes urge home cooks to
in which he writes: "You farmers. Recipes on how "Literary Chickens," by Beth of various models and col- create with their eyes. Reci-
have to dare to suck." As to cook up his discoveries. Moon. Abbeville Press. You lections. It's all very French: pes are organized by color
a 2-year-old in Memphis, $60. heard that right. The New "You know, I've learnt every- and each color is charac-
family lore goes, he har- "Tony Duquette's Dawn- York photographer Moon thing about fashion in bed," terized by mood.
monized nicely with Don dridge," by Hutton Wilkin- has paired 52 gorgeous Mouret says. "Every body Yellow includes mango
Henley on the car radio. He son. Abrams. Wilkinson black-and-white portraits I've touched has taught pudding with panna cotta.
revels in his years on "Sat- bought designer Du- of heritage-breed chickens me something about dress- Purple is beet and pumpkin
urday Night Live," and his quette's Beverly Hills home with literary excerpts. The ing it." ravioli. Savory asparagus
bromance with Jimmy Fal- after Duquette's death in beady-eyed gazes of ev- "Rolex: The Impossible Col- tarts represent for green.
lon. Of early 'N Sync: "We 1999, chronicling its expan- ery last one of the birds are lection," by Fabienne Rey- $50.q