Assouline Publishing has made the coffee-table book cool again. The revolutionary company is best known for sumptuously illustrated books on fashion, art, travel and photography. Its exquisite hardcover volumes are beautiful to look at and are of impeccable editorial quality.
Assouline Publishing was established in 1994 by Prosper and Martine Assouline. The family company quickly outgrew its modest initial office, which was located in the basement of what was then the couple’s apartment, and the pair eventually opened a proper office on rue Danielle Casanova in the French capital city. Assouline’s initial offerings focused on designers, artists and fashion houses, with books about Azzedine Alaïa, Dior and Chanel captivating readers in the publisher’s early days. These books have sold millions of copies all over the world.
Owing to the decline of print media, luxury companies found in Assouline a venue to help showcase their products and adequately position their branding in front of consumers. From its earliest days, Assouline has published opulent hardcovers that broke the mold, from illustrated tomes celebrating fashion legends and high-society doyens to hand-bound limited-edition art monographs with Italian linen covers.
Highly anticipated Assouline titles, such as Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection, Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection and Art Deco Style, are published with consistency every year.
While books remain at the forefront of Assouline, the publishing house has also expanded into producing alluring decorative objects and furnishings for the home.
Today, Alex Assouline, the son of Prosper and Martine, heads Assouline Publishing. Under his guidance, the brand developed a lucrative new branch that is focused on curating private libraries for homes, offices, hotels and other commercial properties.
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The Living Room by the Design Leadership Network
By Assouline Publishing
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Design Leadership Network. This captivating volume is a celebration of the living room across styles, moods, and locales. From mountaintop chalets to urban abodes, country retreats t...
Linen
$300
H 16 in W 12.5 in D 1.5 in
Houses, Volume I, by Thierry Despont, Large Art Book, United States, 1990
By Assouline Publishing, Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
A large, color book of houses designed by artist and architect Thierry Despont. Volume I of VI. Born in France, Thierry Despont studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and earn...
Paper
The Impossible Collection of Fashion - Assouiline
By Assouline Publishing
Located in Miami, FL
In this limited edition, Ultimate Collection format linen clamshell and handmade oversized fashion coffee table book, Valerie Steele flexes her curatorial muscle by showcasing the mo...
Fabric, Paper
$400
H 17 in W 13.5 in D 15 in
Le Cabinet de Curosités, by Thierry Despont, Large Art Book, United States, 2013
By Thierry Despont, Assouline Publishing
Located in New York, NY
A large, color book about artist and architect Thierry Despont's studio & practice. ISBN 10: 161428072X ; ISBN 13: 9781614280729 Publisher: Assouline Publishing Born in France,...
Paper
The Well-lived Life: One Hundred Years of House & Garden
By Assouline Publishing
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
The Well-lived Life: One Hundred Years of House & Garden by Dominique Browning. Assouline Publishing, Inc. 2008. Large hardcover coffee table book. Size: 12 1/8" x 9 1/2" x 1" 1/4. House & Home - 238 pages. Few magazines can lay claim to a century of history or to having published work by some extraordinary and distinguished photographers and writers as House & Garden. Now, straight from the pages of this well-loved periodical, The Well-Lived Life presents a lavish chronicle of a country and a culture coming into its own, documenting America's continuing education in matters of house, home and garden over the course of the 20th century. Selecting high points from the magazine, this book surveys the growing confidence and imagination reflected in American interiors and entertaining over the last century -the dinners, picnics and parties of a country dedicated to welcoming others- and the changing definition of home. It also illuminates the joys -sedentary or sporting- Americans have always found in the out-of-doors. The Well-Lived Life surveys the landscape of our lawns and gardens...
Paper
Planets by Thierry Despont, Large Art Book, United States, 2008
By Thierry Despont, Assouline Publishing
Located in New York, NY
A large, color book of paintings of planets by artist and architect Thierry Despont. ISBN 10: 2843237955 ISBN 13: 9782843237959 Publisher: Assouline Publishing Born in France, Thi...
Paper
Insects by Thierry Despont, Large Art Book, United States, 2008
By Assouline Publishing, Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
A large, color book of found object sculptures by artist & architect Thierry Despont. ISBN 10: 2759403017 ISBN 13: 9782759403011 Publisher: Assouline Publishing Born in France...
Paper
$1,500
H 18.5 in W 15.5 in D 2.7 in
Assouline: Oscar Niemeyer Architecture Coffee Table Book, First Edition
By Assouline Publishing, Oscar Niemeyer
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Niemeyer one of the fathers of modernist architecture, is remembered through Assouline's handmade limited-edition Ultimate Collection volume.
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