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
When a Private Library Becomes an Institution
J. Pierpont Morgan built a room for his books. His son eventually gave the room, the collection and its future to trustees.
Provenance
The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux
A royal prayer book, less than four inches high, passed through kings, collectors, confiscation, recovery and finally The Cloisters.
Maison
The House Archivist
Private houses preserve wine, paintings, property and jewellery with great seriousness. Their own memory is often left in cardboard boxes.
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.