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Vitoux, Frederic. Photography By Jerome Darblay In Collaboration With Nanou Billault. Translated By Alexandra Bonfante-Warren. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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Vitoux, Frederic. Photography by Jerome Darblay in collaboration with Nanou Billault. Translated by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren. VENICE: THE ART OF LIVING.
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, (1991), Ist edition.
252 pp, square small 4to (10 1/8" H x 10 1/8" D), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely and beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs and map. "(R)eexamines Venice with a fresh eye, climbing over garden walls, peeking through keyholes and slipping unnoticed through portals to reveal the intimate side of theis majestic city...we enter the modern apartments, small country homes, and the palazzos as well as the workshops of the glassmakers, weavers, lacemakers, and other artisans who have made Venice crafts famous. We experience Venetian holidays and the pleasures of rowing (Venetian-style, of course). Leaving aside the famous monuments and museums, the author takes us into the city's many neighborhoods, each with its own color and unique soul, and introduces us to their inhabitants. The book also includes a listing of more than 200 addresses of the finest hotels, restaurants, and shops...captures the diverse tastes of the Venetians for the first time, creating a fascinating portrait of a people and their remarkable art of living." A small oval light stain at top of front board, very minor edge wear tiny light mark on front pastedown. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling - moderate with two tiny tears at top of spine, light rubbing, small light liquid stain with some surface paper loss at top inside edge of front panel. VG/VG-
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37.50 USD
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