Word: rizzoli
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...today. The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco would not be holding "Happy Birthday, Louise" party to accompany a performance of Lulu, a play based on her signature film Pandora's Box. The Criterion Collection would not be issuing a double-disc edition of the Pandora's Box DVD. And Rizzoli would not have published Louise Brooks; Lulu Forever, a handsome volume with more than 100 large photos and a warm consideration of her career by Peter Cowie. (Yes, that's the same Peter Cowie who wrote a Janus Films book that I reviewed last Friday...
Oscar Niemeyer: Houses (Rizzoli) Alan Hess celebrates the work of the Brazilian architect with Alan Weintraub's photographs of houses designed by Oscar Niemeyer in his home city of Brasília. Some featured are those of Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende, Flavio Marcilio and Sebastião Camargo...
...bone up on your fashion history. This fall Assouline is publishing a trio of designer biographies--The Journey of a Woman: 20 Years of Donna Karan (228 pages), Carolina Herrera (208 pages) and Marc Jacobs (80 pages). On the heels of Ford's final catwalk bow comes Tom Ford (Rizzoli; 384 pages), which catalogs the meticulous designer's decade of work for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. And when the edifying is done, these books work even better on the coffee table than by the bedside. --BY KATE NOVACK
...bring their expertise in planning bashes for clients like Mercedes-Benz and Cartier to the rest of us with Fete Accompli! (Clarkson Potter) in September. But the best advice of all may be from Elsie de Wolfe's 1913 classic, The House in Good Taste, to be reissued by Rizzoli next month. "The color of [the dining room] should be selected with due consideration of its becomingness to the host or hostess," she writes. "Everyone has a right to look their best in their own dining room." Martha couldn't have said it better...
RUNNER-UP: Through the Shopping Glass: A Century of New York Christmas Windows by Sheryll Bellman (Rizzoli; $35) Browse through some 70 holiday tableaux in this pretty (though too small) book. The displays are artful, kitschy...