Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was far more than a style icon. In an age of visual excess, she stood for a new kind of elegance: restrained, precise, and uncompromising. Her style was quiet yet unmistakable—and continues to resonate to this day.
This Callwey book traces her journey from her early years to the very centre of the fashion world, revealing how a minimalist code emerged at Calvin Klein that shaped her entire appearance. Iconic street-style images, rare private photographs, and selected editorials illustrate how colour, cut, material, and attitude merged into a timeless aesthetic.
Alongside key garment silhouettes, accessories, and materials, the book also explores the role of privacy and distance as part of her public image. Featuring around 150 carefully curated photographs, it offers a precise portrait of a woman whose style never sought to be a trend—and is therefore still inspiring today.
Traces of Time – Crafting the Authentic Home continues the spirit of The Authentic Home (2021). This new volume reveals thirty remarkable private residences from across the globe, each shaped by a profound respect for traditional craftsmanship and the quiet poetry of natural materials.
Within these pages, stone worn by generations, timber mellowed by light, and objects carrying the patina of life come together to form interiors with genuine presence. Every home reflects an intimate dialog between past and present, where ancestral techniques are not revived as nostalgia, but embraced as living, enduring values. The architects and designers featured here share a devotion to creating spaces with true soul—homes that move beyond fashion, resist the fleeting, and honor the beauty of what is real. Their work celebrates imperfection, authenticity, and the subtle traces left by time itself. Traces of Time invites readers into environments that feel grounded, warm, and deeply human—timeless refuges crafted with care, memory, and meaning.
“So far, there haven’t been many women who have dared to dream on a truly megalomaniac scale—and see those dreams through to completion.” — Niki de Saint Phalle.
The story of the Tarot Garden, created by Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002), unfolds like a fairy tale. For the first time, this book documents the extraordinary adventure of its construction, from 1978 to 1998. It all began when, at the age of twenty-five, Niki de Saint Phalle visited Gaudí’s Park Güell and decided to give form to her lifelong “desire for grandeur.” The result was the creation of twenty-one monumental and esoteric sculptures spread across two hectares in Tuscany’s Maremma region—an artistic interpretation of the Tarot’s major arcana, a system that had long captivated her imagination. The Tarot Garden stands within a visionary lineage of fantastical environments, alongside the Palais Idéal of Ferdinand Cheval, Gaudí’s Park Güell, Alain Bourbonnais’s Fabuloserie, and the Gardens of Bomarzo in Lazio. Enriched with rare archival material, this book reveals the behind-the-scenes story of Niki de Saint Phalle’s magnum opus, shaped by Etruscan heritage, local craftsmanship, and rituals drawn from cultures around the world.
“Seeing the garden Gaudí built in Barcelona changed my life. From that moment on, my path would be a slow apprenticeship—until the day I, too, would be capable of creating a magnificent work like his, a place of joy.” — Niki de Saint Phalle.
Text in English, Italian and French.
In the fourth edition of World’s Best – Interiors From Around the Globe series the journey continues through some of the most remarkable residential projects created by leading architects and interior designers across the world.
This new addition to the series brings together around 80 carefully selected features, each offering a unique perspective on contemporary living. From serene urban apartments to expansive countryside homes, the projects presented here reflect a rich diversity of styles, cultures, and design philosophies. A range of inspiring interiors is explored: a refined residence in São Paulo shaped by natural materials and quiet restraint, a sculptural villa in Amman where art and architecture intertwine, a light-filled San Francisco Pied-à-terre blending heritage and modernity, a relaxed Californian home in Los Angeles, a carefully restored Edwardian town home, and many more distinctive spaces across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond.
Ann Demeulemeester PRINTS collects a series of carefully selected invitations and prints that have shaped her unique signature over the years.
High Tide dives into the profound role of water, the sea, and the ocean in the creative imagination of fashion designers and contemporary artists, portraying water as a dynamic, generative force and poetic reality. Through multisensory installations and works by both established and emerging talents, it explores themes of fertility, rebirth, threat, migration, and feminist perspectives. From mythological figures like Venus and Narcissus to contemporary reflections on climate, migration, and emotional depths, the exhibition reveals how water mirrors our destiny while connecting art and fashion. Icons such as Versace, Iris Van Herpen, Bill Viola, and Dries Van Noten bring this oceanic vision vividly to life.
This is the exhibition catalog of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s exhibition starting September 2026 dedicated to Gustave Fayet as an artist and a collector. This book focuses on his collection: he bought works to resell them at a profit, allowing him to acquire new, even more remarkable pieces. His collection included over 200 works by Gauguin and the ‘Gauguin Room’ in his Parisian apartment was legendary among the Parisian elite of the time. He was also a very close friend of Odilon Redon, and he acquired works by famous artists such as Matisse, Bonnard, Degas, Monet, Matisse, Renoir, Cézanne, Rodin and Van Gogh among others. Following his death in 1925, the collection was sold by his family. However, these works can now be found in the world’s most prestigious museums, and are reunited during the exhibition.
Rhythm of Yuloh is Chen Duxi’s new monograph collecting recent artworks and spatial projects. Titled after the traditional sound of the yuloh — an oar used in Chinese sculling — the book reflects Chen’s origin in the water-rich region of Sichuan and his sustained engagement with Chinese traditions across art, philosophy, and music. This book presents Chen Duxi’s systematic aesthetic paradigm grounded in an Eastern sense of poetic realm. It documents his reflections on life, investigations into fundamental patterns, and the ways he maps cognitive structures onto image and space — rendering those inquiries onto the page for readers and viewers to engage.
Photographs taken during Grierson’s wanderings in Mexico and Guatemala in the late Eighties, and Nineties. While continuing his preoccupations, from where he’d left off several years earlier (his RCA work), Grierson was now met with a different reality, and a fresh challenge. Would the post modernist, formalist playfulness, in his earlier work, continue within this new third world environment? We are always ultimately shaped by our environment, but within the work, the environment is also shaped by both the photographer’s own subjectivity and the medium itself. ‘Grierson indeed is a particular kind of witness and his work is as much about the medium as the world’, (Gerry Badger).
Putting away his flash gun (which had characterized much of his earlier work), in respect for the indigenous people, he wanders through Central America, recording his interactions on b/w film. The resulting emotive images, have a strong sence of humanity, but they are never sentimental, and their power still owes much to Grierson’s formalist eye, and the subtle, yet visceral connections between the objects and people, within each frame.
The renowned Scottish artist Dame Barbara Rae DBE RA has long been fascinated by the polar regions. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, in its bicentenary year, this sumptuous volume reproduces a host of new works made on Rae’s recent voyages to Antarctica. There she traced the journeys of the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton during the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17), visiting such remote locations as South Georgia and Elephant Island.
From the refined urban apartments of Paris, Budapest, and Berlin to serene villas in Tuscany and coastal retreats in Australia, the projects featured in this book reflect a rich diversity of places, cultures, and lifestyles. Cities such as Istanbul, São Paulo, Munich, Dubai, and Sydney stand alongside tranquil rural landscapes in Belgium, Mexico, and Italy, illustrating how contemporary living transcends geography while remaining deeply rooted in context.
The homes presented in this edition embrace a wide spectrum of styles—from warm minimalism and modern-classical elegance to sculptural architecture and nature-driven design. We encounter Japandi-inspired interiors, refined penthouses defined by light and texture, and countryside residences where stone, wood, and landscape merge seamlessly. Across all projects, a shared commitment emerges: a pursuit of harmony between functionality, materiality, and emotional experience.
What unites these works is not a single aesthetic, but a common intention—to create spaces that are both beautiful and livable. Whether it is a contemporary loft in Barcelona infused with cultural depth, a Georgian house in Cork reimagined with minimalist precision, or a lakeside retreat shaped by light and atmosphere, each residence tells a story of individuality and thoughtful design.
A high-performance tribute to Richard Mille watches, Monograph (II) showcases Rafael Nadal collaborations, signature watch models, titanium and carbon TPT cases, advanced movement design, tourbillon engineering, winding systems and the cutting-edge materials that define every Richard Mille timepiece — a universe where watches drive innovation, where each case expresses extreme precision, where Nadal inspires new model developments, where automatic and manual winding technologies evolve, and where Richard Mille watches continually redefine performance through radical case construction, forward-thinking movement architecture and iconic watch model identity.
A landmark celebration of Richard Mille watches, Monograph (III) explores the latest Richard Mille watch creations, movements, tourbillon innovations and Formula-inspired engineering, showcasing Richard Mille partnerships with elite athletes such as Felipe Massa and Rafael Nadal. This new limited edition reveals the evolution of the brand through luxury materials, advanced automatic and chronograph mechanisms, cutting-edge titanium case architecture and the precision-driven culture of modern haute horology, including its French artistic heritage.