Assouline
The Impossible Collection of Fashion
The hundred most iconic dresses of the twentieth century, hand-bound.
$995.00
Curated by LIBRO · Milano
The Library
Knowledge is the oldest private capital. The Library is the maison’s curated institution: every work admitted under the Charter, kept from the world’s most distinguished publishers, and from our own press.
Two programmes and the maison editions; collections curated as arguments, not shelves. Enter by door, or go straight to the catalogue.
Programme IArt BooksArt, photography, design, fashion: the great visual volumes, curated for the eye.Enter
Programme IIWisdom BooksStrategy, economics and judgment: the books an owner returns to.Enter
The PressMaison EditionsThe maison’s own works: numbered, sewn, and cased.EnterThe house, writing
From the Journal
Institutions
The Library That Fled Hamburg
Aby Warburg built a library around the belief that books should be placed beside the books that made them more dangerous. In 1933, the library had to leave Germany before the men who owned the country decided what should happen to it.
Provenance
The Curtains at Verteuil
The Unicorn Tapestries passed through a château, a revolution, a barn, a Rockefeller house and finally The Cloisters. Their survival depended several times on somebody recognizing what was in front of them.
Objects
The Signet Ring
Before the signature became a line of ink, authority could be carried on the hand.
From the Shelves
Taschen
Annie Leibovitz
The collector’s edition of a career that defined the modern portrait.
$2,500.00
Phaidon
Andy Warhol “Giant” Size
The visual biography of the century’s most consequential artist.
$150.00
From the Canon
The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.