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This volume presents the most exquisite and refined designs of the worlds finest jeweler.

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Cartier epitomizes creativity and individuality in jewellery design. This book features 175 objects that exemplify Cartiers talent and represent milestones in 20th-century design.

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Offers a journey through 160 years of Cartier creations including over 350 jewels, timepieces, and luxury objects.

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Coco Chanel continues to beguile more than two decades after her death. The author describes Chanel's carefully crafted persona and then gradually elucidates each layer of intrigue that surrounded the great fashion designer to reveal the woman behind the enigma. She also includes photographs and new documents from the wartime period.

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The ultimate cookbook from the Valrhona school for chocolate makers, featuring a dozen essential techniques and seventy easy-to-follow recipes.

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This intimate tour evokes the lifestyle of eighteenth- century French nobility and provides a lesson in the art and technique of historic house and garden restoration.

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"Picasso's Les Demoiselles dAvignon" (Museum of Modern Art, New York) dubbed by Pierre Daix as the first painting in modern art represents a milestone in the history of art. Picasso's radical break with tradition was to be a decisive influence on modern visual art.

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Features a gallery of femmes fatales that guides us through the ages to rediscover incredible heroines. This title illustrates their stories with iconic works by masters such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Rubens, Goya, Sargent, Picasso, Dali, Warhol, de Saint Phalle, and Tracey Emin.

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Offers a window into the secret lives of more than seventy - five great artists by one of Frances most successful and best-known photographers.

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Nearly every day of the year, master chef Philippe Excoffier prepares dazzling meals and parties for foreign dignitaries, French friends of America, and Americans in Paris. In this illustrated volume, he shares forty of his favorite recipes, including grilled veal with sage sauce and stuffed zucchini flowers.

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Features over 200 magnificent colour illustrations and many rarely seen before, from royal figures standing in the shade to warriors. By juxtaposing images the author creates surprising comparisions, providing unprecedented insight into these works.

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This handsome volume presents France and its rich culture in all its bountyfrom landscape and tradition to literature and legend.

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Focuses on the hidden gems of interior design in the French countryside and unveils the decorative inspiration they offer.

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Features France's sumptuous interiors, including the private havens of the world's leading designers. This book features interiors that include classic hotels particuliers, Colette's former apartment overlooking the Palais Royal, a stately residence in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, and a traditional Russian-style log house.

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Azure blue skies and sparkling waves on the horizon are the perfect counterpoints to these cozy interiors inspired by life at the seaside. Sundrenched terraces are accessorized with nautical details including smooth pieces of sea glass, rows of sand dollars. This title celebrates the enduring popularity of nautically inspired interiors.

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Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon, Mercier, Krug, Ruinart, Veuve Clicquot, Cheval Blanc; across the world these names are synonymous with prestige, secrets passed down from generation to generation, and above all the genius of French wine production. This title discovers the magic of these beautiful retreats, and the institutions behind them.

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The 1970s were born out of the turbulent late 60s. This book explores the sociological aspects of 1970s design, examining how ergonomically-focused designers maximized efficiency through the creation of multifunctional furniture and invented a new design vocabulary that clearly indicated an objects function.

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A fantastic two thousand year history of Gardens around the world containing full colour photographs, and in-depth descriptions of the individual gardens, the people behind them, and their uses today.

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The diverse oeuvre of Gustave Dorillustrations, paintings, sculpturecombines with biography and critical essays and attests to the artists enduring impact on contemporary culture.