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Author : Frédéric Lievain
Publishing House: Le Cherche Midi
Publication Date: 28 novembre 2019
The elegance is in the detail, a subtle touch that changes everything. Watches in movies are more than just an accessory, even an iconic one. If they can enhance a costume, they are above all symbolic, underlining a status or passing on history. Masters of time, they are often of crucial importance for the hero. Some roles are inseparable from their watches: it is impossible to imagine James Bond without his mythical Rolex Submariner or Omega Seamaster on his wrist, Steve McQueen without his Tag Heuer or Ryan Gosling in Drive without his Calatrava. Sometimes watches even become actors in their own right, such as “the Gold Watch” in the cult scene in Pulp Fiction, the IWC worn by Sophie Marceau in Anthony Zimmer, or the historic Omega, actually worn on the moon by Neil Armstrong and which appears in Damien Chazelle’s First Man on the Moon. Discreet or famous, these watches are the object of a fascination that goes beyond genres and generations.
A fantastic book that relates the narrative strength of iconic watches in a form of art that relies on the imagery of seconds! Cult characters, like James Bond, and their legendary Rolex models, and the most memorable movie scenes — this book sheds a new light on these two professions, which feed on each other, and does so over the course of their common development in the 20th century.
Author: Tonne Goodman
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Publication Date: 2019
Description : Throughout her illustrious career, Tonne Goodman has made the famous stylish and the stylish famous. The Vogue fashion director has not only shaped the way women dress and see themselves, but she has also created a nexus in which the worlds of celebrity and style continually collide. Now, in Point of View, Goodman’s life and career are explored for the first time. Organized chronologically, this book charts Goodman’s career from her modeling days, to her freelance fashion reportage, to her editorial and advertising work, through to her reign at Vogue. The editor’s recollections of some of the world’s greatest photographers, models, celebrities, and designers of our time are illustrated throughout, with behind-the-scenes fashion photos and shots of Goodman’s personal life.
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It is the most prestigious appellation in the world – yet the iconic Romanée-Conti is the fruit of a vineyard that is small in size, but big in history. This is precisely what Laurens Delpech reveals in this book – the short story of the Prince of Romanée-Conti, the man who turned this modest vineyard into a grand cru, like a work of gustatory art!
Author: Laurens Delpech
Publishing House: Flammarion
Publication Date: October 2020
Description :Cousin of the King of France Louis XV, Prince Louis-François de Bourbon-Conti was a patron of the intellectuals of his time such as Diderot, Beaumarchais and Rousseau and a very famous collector of works of art. His stroke of genius was the purchase of the vineyard of the Romanée which was to be called Romanée-Conti. This book reveals the secrets of this mythical wine, object of a real cult by amateurs around the world. After a biography dedicated to the prince of Conti, it allows us, through recent tastings, to define the characteristics of this unique wine that must be placed within the Climates of Burgundy. These climates are terroirs where Burgundian grape varieties are optimally acclimatized. These long-recognized terroirs have enjoyed a unique historical continuity and were inscribed on the World Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2015. To understand Burgundy, it is necessary to know its climates but also to be aware of the climate, that is to say the meteorological conditions of each vintage, because the fact of producing great wines, to the northern limit of maturity of the type of vines used, is sometimes like an obstacle course where nature tries to play tricks on the winemaker. This is why Laurens Delpech reproduces large extracts from the harvest reports published since 1996 by Aubert de Villaine, who runs the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. This saga of successive vintages reminds us of the difficulty of winemaking. This original, very complete book, which highlights the duality of climates and climate that makes the greatest wines of Burgundy, is written with an alert pen. It is an excellent synthesis of the Romanée-Conti which will also be very useful to those who wish, quite simply, to refine their knowledge and appreciation of Burgundy wines.
Authors: Umberto Zapelloni, Roberto Rinaldi, Laurent Laget
Publishing House: Hugo Sport
Publication Date: May 2021
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF F1 BY A PASSIONATE JOURNALIST. In 2020, as wecelebrate the 70th anniversary of the first Silverstone Grand Prix, sports journalistUmberto Zapelloni retraces the history of the F1 World Championship from 1950 to the present day, punctuated by significant events and colorful personalities. A fast-pacedaccount, but also a tour of the greatest champions, manufacturers and designers, whosebiographies combine key moments in their careers, anecdotes and the author’s personalmemories. Among the 50 portraits: Fernando Alonso, Juan Manuel Fangio, Enzo Ferrari, Mika Häkkinen, Lewis Hamilton, Graham and Damon Hill, Soichiro Honda, Niki Lauda, Charles Leclerc, BruceMcLaren, Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Jean Todt, SebastianVettel…
