Word: rizzoli
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...Frampton) had a life before the 1970s. Learn this and more at "Shoes: A Lexicon of Style," a quirky exhibition of contemporary footwear on display now through April 17 at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. An eponymous companion book is available from Rizzoli...
...upscale bookseller Rizzoli announced plans to open a branch in a little boite in the main Benetton outlet on Fifth Avenue. The store, full of books about fashion, food and style, is meant to be the last word in trendiness. Its name? The e Cafe. For a decade, the alphabet's most culturally significant letter has been X. First there was Malcolm X, then the X-Men, The X-Files, the X Games, the fX network, and Gen X. But X, alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins...
...Eternal City looked in its glory days. An even older civilization is presented in Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico (Abrams; $80). These people, who thrived some 3,000 years ago, left no written documents, but their great stone faces and elaborate masks speak mysterious volumes. Splendors of Imperial China (Rizzoli; $60) affords a sweeping overview of some 5,000 years of artifacts and art produced by a still vibrant culture...
Against the background of the violence in Jerusalem this fall, The Dome of the Rock (Rizzoli; $60) offers a bit of blissful repose: a stunning series of photographs of an Islamic holy place that shares a spot equally precious to Christians and Jews. Another great city forms the centerpiece of St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars (Abbeville; $95). Peter the Great founded it in 1703 as Russia's "window to the West"; after the hiatus of Soviet rule, that window is open again and marvelous to see. Back to Mandalay: Burmese Life, Past and Present (Abbeville; $55) captures contemporary people...
Norman Parkinson: Photographs 1935-1990 (Rizzoli; $65). "I do not promote the idea that photography is an art form," said the late British fashion photographer, who attributed his success to "hobgoblins that live inside the camera." An impish lightness of being animates these superb images, all of them marked by a sure sense of the elegant line, be it the pose of a long- legged beauty or the curvaceous fuselage of a 1930s airliner...