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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2007 American Fashion Hardcover Coffee Table Book Assouline
By Assouline Publishing
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
American Fashion Hardcover Coffee Table Book Assouline 2007. American Fashion by Assouline, published in 2007 is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of the history o...
Maharaja's Jewels Table Book by Katherine Prior, Assouline
By Assouline Publishing
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Maharaja's Jewels Table Book by Katherine Prior, Assouline. The stories of Indian princes and their jewelry and precious stones are brought together in this illustrated narrative tracing the rise and fall of India's leading royal houses through the dramatic fortunes of their crown jewels. Traditionally, precious metals and jewels have been, for Indians rich and poor, a repository of wealth and a status symbol. For the reigning families, jewels also had symbolic and religious significance. Also here are the original drawings by great European jewelers of the pieces they designed for their exotic and demanding clients. The text is both lively and scholarly, drawing from descriptions of such travelers as Marco Polo and Tavernier as well as Sanskrit dramatists extolling the riches of India. The core of this lavishly photographed book is the encounter between Indian princely magnificence and the best of European Jewellery designers in the 20th century when many of the Maharaja's travelled to Europe with trunks filled with traditional Indian jewels and unset stones...
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler Hardcover Book by Ruth Peltason
By David Webb, Assouline Publishing
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler hardcover book by Ruth Peltrason c 2013. This large heavy hardcover luxury book is an amazing archive of Webb's extraordinary 20th cent...
Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People With Photography by Horst, 1968
Located in Atlanta, GA
Beautiful people, lush gardens and stylish interiors ... Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People, published by Viking Press in 1968, offers an insider's view of fascinating people an...
Valentino Fashion Book Collections from the 1960s thru 1990 c 1991
By Valentino
Located in University City, MO
Valentino soft cover fashion book with collections from the 1960s thru 1990 The books features Valentino's beautiful fashions spanning from the 1960s thru 1990 An incredible archive ...
Chanel The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hardcover Book circa 2005
By Chanel
Located in University City, MO
Chanel The Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover book c 2005 A beautiful collection of Chanel's luxurious garments; with fine and costume jewelry designs Showcases the exquisite co...
$475Sale Price|38% Off
W 9.75 in D 1.5 in L 13.25 in
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler Hard Cover Book by Ruth Peltason
By David Webb
Located in University City, MO
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler hard cover book by Ruth Peltrason c 2013 The book is an amazing archive of Webb's extraordinary 20th century jewelry designs Webb is be...
$295Sale Price|21% Off
H 13.25 in L 10.25 in
Christian Louboutin 1st Edition Hardcover Book for Rizzoli c 2011
By Christian Louboutin, Rizzoli
Located in University City, MO
Christian Louboutin 1st Edition hardcover Rizzoli book c 2011 The hardcover book is an archive of Louboutin's exquisite shoe designs There is a forward from actor John Malkovich...
$225Sale Price|52% Off
W 8.5 in D 1 in L 10 in
Angels of Anarchy Rare Women Artist & Surrealism Hard Cover Book c 2009
Located in University City, MO
Angels of Anarchy Rare women's artist & surrealism hard cover book by Patricia Allmer c 2009 An archive of twentieth century avant-garde Surrealist international women artist from the 1920's through the 1950's The hard cover book is 225 pages with 141 paintings, photographs & illustrations of beautiful full color plates. Plus 50 smaller illustrations Features works by Frida Kahlo & Leonora Carrington. Includes works by lesser known female artists Emmy Bridgwater & Valentine Penrose...
The Great Lady Decorators Coffee Table Book, 2009
By Rizzoli
Located in Atlanta, GA
2009 Rizzoli publication compiled by Adam Lewis, The Great Lady Decorators: The Women Who Defined Interior Design 1870-1955, is a who's who of the most influential designers of the l...
Chopard The Passion for Excellence Hard Cover Book c 2010
By Chopard
Located in University City, MO
Chopard The Passion for Excellence large scale hardcover book with dust jacket c 2010 The 296 page book is a lavish archive of Chopard's exquisite precious jewelry designs. It prim...
$245
W 9.75 in D 1.5 in L 11.75 in
Couture The Great Designers Book by Caroline Rennolds Millbank c 1985
Located in University City, MO
Couture The great designers hardcover book by Caoline Rennolds Millbank c 1985 The 415 page hardcover begins in the 1840s with Charles Frederick Worth...
2002 Louis Vuitton City Guide French Edition - Madrid Barcelona Grenada Seville
By Louis Vuitton
Located in London, GB
2002 Louis Vuitton City Guide French Edition - Madrid Barcelona Grenada Seville Lisbon, Pastel Lime Green Paper cover Dimensions: 12.1 x 20.5 x 0....
1975 British VOGUE Vintage Magazine Anna Andersen by Eric Boman
By Vogue
Located in London, GB
BRITISH VOGUE Magazine, 1st October 1975, Number 13, Whole Number 2120, Volume 132, 190 pages, Anna Andersen by Eric Boman on the cover Features: Photographs by Bary Lategan, Tosca...
Vintage 1950's Soviet Era Russian Pocket Traveling Chess Set USSR AVTOVO
Located in Алматинский Почтамт, KZ
Vintage Travel Chess Set "Journey to Leningrad" — USSR, 1970s-1980s. Manufacturer: Lentochmekh Condition: Used, in good condition, but one chess piece is missing (the defect is clea...
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler Book c 2013
By David Webb, Assouline Publishing
Located in University City, MO
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler Book c 2013 The hard-bound book is an incredible archive of Webb's extraordinary precious jewelry designs His designs were coveted by ...
2011 Presentation Coffee Table Book of The Impossible Collection of Fashion
By Assouline Publishing
Located in Atlanta, GA
Beautifully printed by Assouline Publishing, this 18.5" x 15.5" hardback version of Valerie Steele's picks of the 100 most iconic dresses of the twentieth century is artist...