"Terrific."--Edmund de Waal, author ofThe Hare with Amber Eyes andLetters to Camondo "Makes you want to travel, do somersaults and stretches, drink champagne in evening dress, read, think ... Intoxicating."--Publishers Weekly Along the French Riviera in the early 1900s, an illustrious family in thrall to classical antiquity builds a fabulous villa--a replica of a Greek palace, complete with marble columns and frescoes depicting mythological gods. The Reinachs--related to other wealthy Jews like the Rothschilds and the Ephrussis--attempt to recreate a "pure beauty" lost in the 20th century. The narrator of this brilliant novel calls the imposing house an act of delirium, "proof that one could travel back in time,just like resetting a clock, and resist the outside world." The story of the villa and its glamorous inhabitants is recounted by the son of a servant from the nearby estate of Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Paris tower, and the two contrasting structures present opposite responses to modernity. The son is adopted by the Reinachs, initiated into the era of Socrates and instructed in classical Greek. He joins a family pilgrimage to Athens, falls in love with a married woman, and survives the Nazi confiscation of the house and deportation to death camps of Reinach grandchildren. This is a Greek epic for the modern era. Reading group guide forVilla of Delirium is available free of charge at newvesselpress.com.

Villa of Delirium

Literature & Fiction

Goetz, Adrien

Literary

New Vessel Press

117pages. 17x10,6x1cm. Broché. Traduit de Sénès Florence -Illustrations de Jankovics györgy.

La Dormeuse de Naples

Volumen

This beautiful slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet’s home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings. Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883. Monet was an artist with a passion for painting landscapes and outdoor scenes, and the garden at Giverny soon became the Impressionist master’s greatest artistic accomplishment and a catalyst for his work. In 1890, Monet began renovating it, installing a picturesque water lily pond inspired by the Japanese prints he avidly collected. The setting of Monet’s Water Lilies series—his most famous works—it is now the most visited garden of its size in the Western world. The beautifully vivid illustrations of Monet’s paintings, his home, and the grounds give readers unprecedented access into the flowery paradise to which Monet dedicated the last forty years of his life. Lovers of garden design and Impressionist art are invited on an intimate tour via this handsome volume.

A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Flammarion

A comprehensive tour of the magnificent Château de Chantilly, its superlative art collection, important stables, and beautiful gardens. The Domaine de Chantilly is an exceptional treasure of French culture and heritage, rebuilt after the Revolution by Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale-son of King Louis-Philippe-as a home and museum for his unrivalled collection of furniture, decorative arts, books, and paintings. These constitute the Condé Museum's extensive galleries-second only to the Louvre in France-with masterpieces including paintings by Raphael, Clouet, Poussin, and Ingres; the world famous French Gothic illuminated manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry; furniture; porcelains; drawings; and early photographs. Chantilly's elegant private apartments, kept precisely as they were during the duc d'Aumale's lifetime, are beautifully preserved examples of the Louis Philippe style unique to France; its recently restored French garden was designed by celebrated landscape architect André Le Nôtre; and the still-functioning Great Stables are the largest and most opulent in Europe. This slipcased volume offers a behind-the-scenes visit to one of France's most complete and beautiful stately homes and its world-class art collection that is carefully conserved today by the Institut de France.

A Day at Château de Chantilly: The Estate and Gardens of the Duke of Aumale

Travel

Deldicque, Mathieu

Europe

Take an exclusive tour of three presidential residences in France--their histories, art, gardens, and architecture--discussed and photographed for the first time. &nbsp; This volume offers a visit to the presidential residences of France: the Élysée Palace and its neighboring Hôtel de Marigny, the Lantern Pavilion hidden away in the park of Versailles, and the Brégançon Fort. These are the places where one can discover the excellence of French artisans, its art conservators and restaurateurs, and its famed gardeners. These sites of political theater and residences of the French president showcase France's exceptional artistic heri­tage and present the great treasures of "French taste," in perpetual reinvention from the eighteenth century through today, to diplomatic visitors from all over the world. &nbsp; The text presents a new way of understanding these buildings and their history, one which puts in perspective their evolution in decor, public or secret, and which decrypts their symbolic power thanks to the author's unprecedented access to the buildings and to archival documents.

Presidential Residences in France

History

Jewelry has always captivated art enthusiasts, highlighting as it does the splendor of great historical figures and the symbolic meaning behind the attire of powerful rulers. Works from the Louvre’s departments include Pourbus’ portrait of Catherine de Medici, Velasquez’ portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa, and the Regent diamond. Each painting or sculpture is shown in its entirety and in detail with a commentary illuminating the particular significance of jewelry in the work in question. The specialist authors divulge their own reflections on the works featured in an informative preface and in detailed captions. Devotees will welcome the fresh perspectives on these masterpieces, while jewelry aficionados will be delighted with the breadth of the collection.

Jewels in the Louvre (Musee Du Louvre)

Joannis, Claudette

Editeur : Grasset Date de parution : 2009 Description : In-8, 408 pages, broché avec jaquette parfaite, occasion, très bon état. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplémentaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Réponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Référence catalogue vendeur: 40878. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks

Intrigue à Versailles

Genre Fiction

GRASSET

Intrigue à Giverny: roman

La nouvelle vie d'Arsène Lupin (French Edition)

Voici la cinquième enquête artistique et historique de Pénélope, la pétulante (quoiqu’inquiète) conservatrice de musée, et de Wandrille, éternel pigiste qui n’arrive pas à se prendre au sérieux. En 1799, lors de l’expédition d’Egypte, Bonaparte aurait caché un objet destiné lui permettre de régner sur la France. De nos jours, un cambriolage a lieu à Reims, dans le trésor des sacres des rois, faisant disparaître un anneau égyptien portant le cartouche de Néfertiti qui avait été offert au musée par l’impératrice Eugénie. Pénélope, chargée des collections de bijoux égyptiens au Louvre, est dépêchée de toute urgence sur le site archéologique des ermitages coptes de Baouit. Quel est le lien secret qui unit les Bonaparte et les Bourbon, et dont la clé se trouverait encore au pays des Pharaons ? 
Erudite et humoristique, cette Intrigue qui, comme les précédentes, nous fait apprendre mille détails de l’histoire de l’Art mêlés à des aventures rocambolesques. Pénélope et Wandrille courent à la recherche de la clef (ou de la bague) de l’affaire, accompagnés de nouveaux personnages tout aussi pittoresques, comme Diane, irrésistible blonde aux yeux verts qui veut épouser Wandrille, ou la présidente du musée du Louvre, qui résiste à des manifestants ayant envahi le département des Antiquités égyptiennes, sans parler d’un médecin médiatique et d’un escroc corse. Nous voici conduits, sur un rythme frénétique, de Paris à l’Egypte, en passant des hauteurs d’Ajacccio. Quel est donc le secret du talisman égyptien de Bonaparte ?

Intrigue en Egypte: roman

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