Jérôme Hanover

Christian Bérard highlights the multifaceted talents of a remarkable artist who navigated freely across diverse artistic domains. Bérard thrived as a painter, designer of theatre and film sets and costumes, fashion designer, interior designer, and was a masterful draftsman and colourist. His iconic drawings epitomised the Paris fashion world and featured on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Women's...

Celebrating Dior's floral inspirations in fashion and perfume, this unique volume features a portfolio of rose portraits by acclaimed fashion photographer Nick Knight. For Christian Dior, perfume was "a door opening into a hidden world." His first, Miss Dior, inspired by the lush gardens of his childhood home in Normandy, forged an inextricable link between his fashion and fragrance creations....

The Hôtel de la Marine, an exemplary monument on Paris's Place de la Concorde, is a superb architectural achievement constructed in the eighteenth century by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, the official architect of King Louis XV. The institution it housed was charged with choosing, purchasing, and maintaining all of the king's furniture—from beds to the simplest chair—and the crown's treasures were stored...