Parisian gallery owner, antiques dealer, and style tastemaker Pierre Passebon curates his favorite portraits of Marlene Dietrich by world-class photographers in this exquisite cloth-bound volume. Featuring rare images from Pierre Passebon’s personal collection, this volume celebrates Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood’s iconic femme fatale, as immortalized by master photographers including Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Milton Greene, George Hurrell, Antony Armstrong-Jones, and others. An active participant in her photo sessions, she constructed her own unique image of charm and seduction. Dietrich’s life was devoted to glamour for over forty years: in stage performances, on screen, and in concert. The public loved her. A modern and transgressive woman, she didn’t hesitate to break the rules by dressing in menswear (she was Yves Saint Laurent’s muse for his iconic tuxedos) or by being seen in public with her husband and her lovers (both male and female). Dietrich also refused to bend to Hollywood conventions around motherhood by raising her daughter in the limelight as well.  Her beauty, style, and elegance made her the archetypal femme fatale, but it was Dietrich’s unwavering confidence, gender fluidity, and firm stand against Nazism that made her a revolutionary and an icon. This volume reveals how her fascination lies not only in the way she inspired the greatest photographers and fashion designers of her time, but in how she continues to embody the essence of glamour and female independence today.

Obsession: Marlene Dietrich: The Pierre Passebon Collection

Arts & Photography

Passebon, Pierre

Servat, Henry-Jean

Dietrich, Marlene

Fashion

Flammarion

Painter, illustrator, decorator, and tastemaker Christian Bérard was a central figure in the creative heart of Paris when art and fashion in the city mingled at their apex. Christian Bérard (1902-1949) was a multidisciplinary artist whose talents can't be associated with a single school or style; his work sheds irreducible light onto his era, which continues to captivate today. Bérard painted ethereal figures and sublimated his high-fashion illustrations with a sharp and witty hand. He lived passionately and sought out enchantment in all forms--from high society to city life, fashion to theater, and stage-set design to interiors. He lived with the Russian poet, dancer, and librettist Boris Kochno, collaborated with creative powerhouses such as Jean-Michel Frank, Christian Dior, George Balanchine, and Elsa Schiaparelli, and designed rugs by Cogolin for Nelson Rockefeller. Drawn to theater and inspired by the classical world, he worked with Louis Jouvet and Jean Cocteau, creating the production design and costumes for Cocteau's masterpiece Beauty and the Beast. A regular at café society events, he contributed to and designed covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. This book, illustrated primarily with works from private collections, celebrates Bérard's vision--oscillating between seriousness and light, melancholy and joie de vivre, nostalgia and revival--that forever inspires collectors and aesthetes.

Christian Bérard: Eccentric Modernist

Hanover, Jérôme

Latimer, Tirza True

Bernasconi, Célia

Mauss, Nick

Individual Artists

Obsession masculin: La collection Pierre Passebon

Barbarossa, Florent

A celebration of the masculine body through an astonishing private collection of photographs, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and drawings.\nFrom the idealized nude heroes of ancient Greece to the confrontational frontal nudes of the 1970s and the intimate and sensual photorealist nudes painted by French artist Jacques Sultana, the infinite possibilities to represent the naked male body have fascinated collector Pierre Passebon for decades.\nThis new volume in The Pierre Passebon Collection series celebrates a powerful, revolutionary, and sometimes controversial selection of artworks depicting the male nude from Passebon’s outstanding personal collection of paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and drawings, challenging taboos surrounding male eroticism and inviting the reader to reassess notions of male identity and normative views of the human body.

Man to Man: An Obsession

History & Criticism

Thirty-one new projects by master Parisian interior designer Jacques Grange redefine his visionary talent.\nOver the course of his fifty-year career, Jacques Grange has designed homes for the world’s most respected collectors, artists, designers, and tastemakers, including Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, François Pinault, Robert Agostinelli, Valentino, Israel Englander, Stavros Niarchos, Terry and Jean de Gunzburg, Lauren and Andres Santo Domingo, Aerin Lauder, Per Skarstedt, and HRH The Princess of Hanover. His classical training at Paris’s École Boulle and École Camondo, his early experience with the French design legend Henri Samuel, and his passion for contemporary art have resulted in a uniquely discerning approach to interior design. Grange’s seemingly natural, “non-designed” aesthetic is revealed through his unusual way of grouping objects, and an unparalleled sense of style and attention to detail.\nThis essential volume illustrates Grange’s wideranging inspirations and exquisite taste through thirty-one new residential projects in Europe and America, from a luxury hôtel particulier in Paris to a chic beachside cabana in Comporta, Portugal, and a midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles. Texts and interviews by Parisian gallerist Pierre Passebon delineate Grange’s approach to design and decoration. Previously unpublished photography by François Halard captures these singular projects with profound sensibility.

Jacques Grange: Recent Work

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

The first book on this leading interior designer, who has worked with Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino, and was named one of the world's most influential designers by Time magazine. Combining good taste and audacity is a subtle art that interior designer Jacques Grange has perfected for over four decades. This volume is an all-access pass inside the luxurious homes created by this master interior designer. From rococo opulence to modern chic, and with Oriental and North African influences blending with Western styles, Grange's touch is unique.

Jacques Grange: Interiors

History

Americas

Jacques Grange occupe une place à part, prépondérante parmi les décorateurs et architectes d’intérieur français, internationalement reconnus. Éminente est la place qu’il occupe en France et Outre-Atlantique. Alors que paradoxalement un oeil non exercé, risque de ne pas reconnaître un décor de Grange, tant celui-ci semble s’effacer derrière la personnalité des occupants. En effet, un décor de Jacques Grange ne se comprend pas, on y est sensible. Il incarne à la perfection ce fameux goût français dont Paris est le dépositaire et qui depuis le XIIIe siècle, n’a cessé de perdurer au travers d’artistes et de décorateurs. Le trait le plus saillant de ses réalisations, sa marque de fabrique en quelque sorte, réside dans ce rien à peine perceptible dans un décor et qui cependant fait toute son unité. Un je-ne-sais-quoi qui relève du tour de main effectué avec maestria.Ancien élève de l’école Boulle et Camondo, Jacques Grange reste très attaché à l’artisanat qui lui permet de s’élever à la perfection du détail, sans jamais céder au pastiche.Abondamment illustré, ce livre retrace le parcours d’un décorateur qui depuis 40 ans ne vénère qu’une seule idole : l’excellence.

Jacques Grange

Graphic Design

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