This book turns aside from the official portraits and the great historical events to rediscover the private places and objects that reflect Marie Antoinette's personality and reveal her more directly to our modern gaze. In retreat from the stifling protocol of the French court and in pursuit of her own tastes (influenced by her free and happy childhood in the Austrian court), Marie Antoinette created her own personal domain - and cultivated a new royal 'style'. At Rambouillet, Versailles and Fontainebleau, her apartments, her pavilions, cottages and dairies set in 'rustic' landscapes, were exquisitely designed and furnished by the most gifted artists and craftsmen, among them the cabinet-makers Riesener and Sene, and the architect Mique. Beautifully photographed by Francois Halard, these rooms and buildings are shown here in fascinating detail. From the distinctive fabrics and furnishings to the queen's favourite objects - an amber curiosity, a Chinese lacquer gift from her mother, a porcelain bowl - Marie-France Boyer's practised eye perceives the essence of the queen's taste and its appeal to modern sensibilities. This is an opportunity to decide whether the queen was the arbiter, the creator even, of a style, or merely the most exalted expression of the eighteenth-century French art of living.

The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette

HALARD, François

Boyer, Marie-France

Biographies & Memoirs

Thames&Hudson

This extravagant volume is the magnum opus of today’s most celebrated interiors photographer. One of François Halard’s first assignments, to photograph Yves Saint Laurent’s legendary Paris apartment when he was in his early twenties, cemented his reputation as one of the most original eyes of our era. His unique photographic sensibility—old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal—is instantly recognizable. Thirty years later, Halard still captures our imagination with his breathtaking photographs. Included in this highly anticipated volume are Halard’s images of the glorious homes of the most important tastemakers, artists, and designers of the twentieth century: Axel Vervoordt, Roger Vivier, Richard Avedon, the Duchess of Devonshire, Julian Schnabel, Schiaparelli, Carlo Mollino, Balthus, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, and many more, including Halard’s own homes in New York, Paris, and Arles. Photographed in his inimitable "grand manner," often for Vogue, this book also shows for the first time the more intimate "house portraits" that Halard would photograph for himself, where his personal vision shines through. François Halard will be a coveted, indispensable resource for all lovers of interior style and a master class in visual education.

Francois Halard

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Rizzoli

This volume presents the famed photographer's newest lush images of the stunning interiors of acclaimed designers, artists, and tastemakers. Francois Halard's unique photographic sensibility--old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal--is unmistakable. Each image is imbued with the intimate knowledge of design history, each story a lesson in a master's point of view. This book is a continuation of his last volume of gorgeous photography of grand interiors, artists' studios, and architectural pilgrimage sites. Each story's subject matter is not just a personal passion of the photographer, but also an indispensable chapter in design history: Philip Johnson and Charles James's de Menil House, Giorgio Morandi's studio, Rick Owens's radical Paris apartment, Eileen Gray's recently restored modernist home on the French coast, Dries Van Noten's verdant garden and home, the home and studio of Louise Bourgeois in New York, and many more. Like his first book, Francois Halard: A Photographic Life will be a coveted, indispensable must-have visual resource for all lovers of interiors, glamour, and style.

Francois Halard: A Visual Diary

Reference

For the past four decades François Halard has had the most privileged view on the world of art, interior design, and culture. From his perch as the photographer of choice of Vogue to World of Interiors, he has captured many of the world’s most cherished spaces. Many of these have been catalogued in the first two volumes of his Rizzoli series. New Vision is the final of his three-volume magnum opus.\nFrom film director Michelangelo Antonioni’s and actress Monica Vitti’s modernist hideaway in Sardenia to the painter Cy Twombly’s family retreat on the Italian coast, from Isamu Noguchi’s private studio in Japan to Luis Barragan’s lost masterpiece in Mexico, these are Halard’s most personal and intimate images yet published. Going beyond mere documentation, these photographs are the results of decades of a trained eye to see beyond the space into its essential soul. As the lover and collector of art and objects himself, each of Halard’s photo is a masterclass in acquiring by looking. Traversing between interior portraiture, authentication, and a cultural x-ray vision, the photographs collected here are a testament to a personal and unique visual imagination.

François Halard 3: New Vision

History & Criticism

François Halard: L'intime photographié

Actes-sud

Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye est une collection d'albums photographiques qui donne à voir une destination à travers l'œil d'un photographe de mode. Elle instaure un dialogue inédit entre des talents émergents, des photographes chevronnés et des légendes de la photographie de mode; Fashion Eye met en regard la création actuelle et des trésors d’archives méconnus pour constituer une collection d’ouvrages de référence, tant dans son approche que dans son esthétique.\nFrom the Back Cover\nLouis Vuitton Fashion Eye est une collection d'albums photographiques qui donne à voir une destination à travers l'œil d'un photographe de mode. Elle instaure un dialogue inédit entre des talents émergents, des photographes chevronnés et des légendes de la photographie de mode ; Fashion Eye met en regard la création actuelle et des trésors d’archives méconnus pour constituer une collection d’ouvrages de référence, tant dans son approche que dans son esthétique.

Fashion Eye Greece

Photography & Video

LOUIS VUITTON

Saul Leiter

Libraryman Co., Ltd.

FranCois Halard Papa /anglais

LIBRARYMAN

Francois Halard 56 Days in Arles /anglais

FranCois Halard Gods First /anglais

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