Lance Avery Morgan
1. CHANEL: HIGH JEWELRY By Patrice Leguéreau
From Gabrielle Chanel’s 1932 collection to the newest interpretations of her signature signs and symbols, this book was helmed by the Director of the CHANEL Fine Jewelry Creation Studio, Patrice Leguéreau. CHANEL High Jewelry remains eternally modern and true to the spirit of her enterprise. We love the breathtaking new photography and classic images from the CHANEL archives bring together revealing combinations in a stunning visual narrative, privileging aesthetic form over four chapters: the origins, the symbols, the spirit, and the allure. Gabrielle Chanel’s passion for fabulous and improbable marvels is celebrated in a covetable book-object that pays tribute to the House’s unparalleled insistence on luxury and refinement, creativity, and beauty. Based on extensive research and exploring CHANEL’s inspirations and art through some of the most precious of all her creations and the eternally modern ideas they have inspired, the tome features superb photographs by Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier, François Kollar, Roger Schall, George Hoyningen- Huene, André Kertész, Sarah Moon, Koto Bolofo, Karim Sadli, Dominique Issermann, and many others. It is also illustrated with images from CHANEL’s archive and sketches that express the creativity and joie de vivre of the world’s finest High Jewelry collection. $200. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
2. JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: ARRESTING BEAUTY
By Victoria & Albert Museum
Here’s a celebration of the life and work of the pioneering photographer, in association with the V&A. Drawing on this unparalleled collection, this book represents an engaging introduction to Cameron’s life and work through more than 120 images. Lavishly illustrated, this book explores Cameron’s unique artistry and range in three sections: her early experiments in the art of photography; her pioneering portraits of public figures, such as Charles Darwin and Sir John Herschel; and her allegorical compositions and artistic tableaux, including those created to illustrate Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. With reproductions of pages from the original manuscript of Cameron’s autobiography and insightful explanatory photo captions throughout, this remarkable volume reaffirms her position in photography history. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was one of the most innovative and influential photographers in the history of the medium. Though criticized in her own lifetime, her distinctive use of close-up and soft-focus is now considered groundbreaking. The Victoria and Albert. $35. At ThamesHudsonUSA.com.
3. LOUIS VUITTON TAMBOUR
By Fabienne Reybaud
Published to mark the twentieth anniversary of Louis Vuitton’s entrance into the field of high-end watchmaking, this landmark volume tells the audacious tale of the Maison’s renowned Tambour watches. Essays by journalist and luxury watch expert Fabienne Reybaud explore the creative origins of the Tambour design and the history of Louis Vuitton watches, along with the precision work of La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, the Geneva watchmakers behind the brand’s reputation for excellence. A catalogue of major models and exclusive insights from watch specialists make this a useful resource for collectors and connoisseurs. With more than 350 illustrations and a lavish design, this book is a beautiful object in its own right, for all lovers of watchmaking and the Louis Vuitton lifestyle. $150. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
4. NEW NORDIC GARDENS: Scandinavian Landscape Design
By Annika Letterman
This beautifully illustrated book presents the best contemporary gardens to have been produced in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland over the past ten years, organized by themes that encapsulate the special ambience and lifestyle of the Scandinavian countries— Simplicity, Silence, Fragility, Nakedness, Attunement, Boldness, Openness, and Care. Exploring each garden’s unique aspects and characteristics, this volume is full of fresh ideas for creating modern outdoor spaces in any environment. $35. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
5. WEDGWOOD: CRAFT AND DESIGN
By Victoria & Albert Museum
Love that familiar blue and white motif for which Wedgwood is known? This beautifully designed book, published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, looks back at key moments in Wedgwood’s design history and celebrates the achievements of the renowned firm and its energetic founder: the union of art and industry; the introduction of design and artistic collaborations; and the iconic blue and white of Wedgwood jasper. Showcasing highlights from the V&A Wedgwood Collection, these ceramics and their stories demonstrate the artistic heritage, craft, and innovation that have become synonymous with the Wedgwood name for more than 250 years. $19.95. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
6. THE LAND GARDENERS: CUT FLOWERS
By Bridget Elworthy & Henrietta Courtauld
Why not explore all aspects of creating a productive, glorious cut-flower garden, from enriching the soil to creating floral arrangements. They recount how they revived the cutting gardens at Wardington Manor in Oxfordshire, England, which had once provided cut flowers for London society, and started growing and gathering glorious blooms for florists and homes, bringing the manor and gardens back to life with their floral vision. Blending inspiring visuals with detailed and practical knowledge, this book invites readers to spend a year in the garden with best practices for planting; lists of flowers to gather seasonally; and the authors’ advice to grow organically and create and maintain a healthy soil, with notes on everything from favorite garden tools to creating compost to when and how to pick flowers and display them. $34.95. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
7. MAKING WAVES: BOATS, FLOATING HOMES AND LIFE ON THE WATER
By Portland Mitchell
Here’s the ultimate inspirational guide for anyone dreaming of living on a boat, featuring practical tips on everything from clever design solutions to finding moorings and living off-grid, For thousands of years, water-borne vessels have provided livelihoods and catered to the spirit of adventure, as well as retreats from the pressures of modern life. It is little wonder that life on the water calls out to the creative and the curious—the mavericks, artists, architects, crafters, and designers who have made their homes on barges, clippers, and houseboats.
$40. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
8. VICTORIAN MODERN: A DESIGN BIBLE FOR THE VICTORIAN HOME
By Jo Leevers
Loved for their period character, Victorian homes aren’t always suited to modern living. This book is the ultimate resource to help make sense of those inherited quirks and features, showing how leading designers and creative homeowners are turning their own homes into contemporary showstoppers.
This beautifully illustrated book is organized around how we use spaces in our homes: dining, cooking, entertaining, sleeping, bathing, working, and transitional areas, such as hallways. Each chapter explains how the Victorians designed and decorated these spaces before moving on to their modern interpretations. The author offers plenty of tips, tricks, and inspiration for transforming a 19th-century home into a light-filled modern abode, ready for the 21st century. $40. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
9. STUDIO CERAMICS: BRITISH STUDIO POTTERY 1900 TO NOW
By Alun Graves
This magnificent catalogue—with more than 900 illustrations, a pictorial timeline of ceramics, and an enlightening A-Z of artists—is a vibrant record of the national collection of 20th-century and contemporary British ceramics held at the V&A. Author Alun Graves, senior curator at the museum, chronicles the medium’s shift into an expressive, and sometimes interventionist, art form over the past century and provides historical context for this rapid evolution. Among the many artists featured, the book showcases work by Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry, Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and Alan Caiger-Smith. Please see the attached press release for more details. $85. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
10. LIVING WILD: New Beginnings in the Great Outdoors
By Joanna Maclennan and Oliver Maclennan
The author/photographer sibling due chronicles the stories of people around the world who have made the leap into the unknown, to live closer to nature. From one young couple in Paris moving to run an olive farm in Provence to another rebuilding a mountaintop cabin in Switzerland where they create plant-based products to a fashion designer-turned-regenerative gardener living in an old railway carriage in Australia to a big-city businessman-turned-artist making his home in a yurt at the foot of the Tetons in the US, this eye-opening volume explores what inspired them and how the changes have impacted their families and livelihoods. Depicting the simple pleasures—as well as the daily challenges—of living off-grid, minimizing waste, and growing your own food, this tomewill inspire anyone dreaming of a simpler existence that benefits the environment and resets the mind. $40. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
BONUS BOOKS WE COULDN’T RESIST…
FOREVER SAUL LEITER
By Saul Leiter
In recent years, photographer Saul Leiter has been in the spotlight with a series of exhibitions and publications. His studio in New York’s East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation. The Foundation has begun a full-scale survey and organization of more than 80,000 works by Leiter, with the aim of compiling the “complete” archive. This contains works discovered through this process: valuable documents that reveal secrets of Saul Leiter’s creation; previously unknown works; popular color and black-and-white works that have not been published yet; as well as works that trace the memories of those closest to him, taken in private. Leiter remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated during the last two decades. His painterly images evoke the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous color, at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. $27.95. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT
By Philip Ziegler
We all know Queen Elizabeth II was a remarkable figure on the global stage for well over half a century. Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle each year are attracted by an image of this exceptional monarch that has been shaped, in significant part, by the work of royal photographers, many of whom are internationally distinguished practitioners of their art.
Drawing from an unparalleled collection of official portraits of the queen, each of the book’s chapters begins with a text by best-selling historian and biographer Philip Ziegler, covering the key royal and historical events of the period, with some contextual photographs, followed by a sequence of plates in chronological order. With over two hundred images of the queen by photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Lord Snowdon, and Rankin, the queen is captured in a variety of poses, from formal photographs as a working monarch to intimate portraits relaxing with her family at Balmoral and Windsor. All the images have been officially approved by the palace, making this the ultimate illustrated book chronicling the life of England’s longest-reigning monarch. $55. At ThamesAndHudsonUSA.com.
