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Vera Wang On Weddings by Vera Wang Large Hardcover Book. In this superbly produced volume by Callaway Editions, Ltd.; the world′s most successful bridal gown designer shares her thoughts and vision on weddings. Culled from years of experience in the wedding business, Vera Wang offers ideas on every aspect of the wedding day from invitations to flowers, from cakes to attendants. Of course, a wedding book by Vera Wang wouldn′t be complete without detail on the bride′s gown...

Paris Hermes Vintage Auction Catalog June 2014 Published by Gros & Delettrez, Hermes Vintage Paris Auction Catalog 2014. Published by Gros & Delet...

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...

Published in 1998 by Assouline with text by Francoise Mohrt, this beautiful book chronicles the fashions and interiors of iconic French designer, Hubert de Givenchy. The 206 page har...

Oh what a charmed and fashionable life she led! C.Z. Guest still remains the epitome of American style ... fresh, sporty, simple and yet elegant. This beautiful 2013 coffee table b...

Sotheby's "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Auction" Book Catalogs. This is a three volume boxed set of sale catalogues which were produced by Soth...

Vogue Magazine - November 1972, Number 14. Whole number 2025. Volume 128. 180 pages, in color and black. white Cover: Winter Fashion, Missoni's Blue fur, photography by Norman Parkin...

Sotheby's "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Auction" Book Catalogs. This is a three volume boxed set of sale catalogues which were produced by Soth...

Snowdon: A Life in View Hardcover – Illustrated, September-23-2014. by Antony Armstrong Jones (Author), Frances Von Hofmannsthal (Editor), Patri...

DIOR Women's Runway Show Lookbook Cruise Collection 2013-2014. DIOR: Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2013-2014. In French and English text. Hardcover small book. Book is in good conditio...

Haute Couture and Luxury Leather Goods by Besch Cannes Auction Catalog France, Juillet 2015. Regular sales in one of the best luxury hotels of Cannes Haute Couture and luxury leather goods, tableware, luxury leather goods, designer bags, jewels and shoes, signed furs, fashion accessories: all these objects have in common an incomparable know-how and creativity. They are appreciated for their sewing technics, the choice of the fabrics and materials, the quality and rarity of the skins, the originality of their design, the name they bear. They “make” the fashion and necessarily the auction market : Hermès, Louis Vuitton...

Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks Hardcover Book by Bedoyere D. E. La Camilla. Louis Comfort Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, as well as ceramics, enamels, and metalwo...