Where Chefs Eat
In a world full of angry Yelp reviewers and social media savvy foodies, its about time that we get a compendium of eatery knowledge from the people who know it best, Chefs. Over 400 of the world's best chefs have compiled over 2,300 recommendations from spots around the world in a new must have book ($20 - January '13) for food-lovers of every sort with Phaidon's Where Chefs Eat:
"Forget the restaurant guides chosen by a panel of mysterious 'experts' or self-appointed food-lovers. This is a guide by the real experts, the people who care about eating the most: more than 400 of the world's best chefs.
Recommending a minimum of three restaurants each, today's hottest food talent reveal their favourite breakfast places; where they like to eat late at night; which restaurant they wish they’d opened and more. Whether it's their favourite sushi bar when traveling or where they eat locally on a rare night off all 2300 chef recommendations will be based on the food alone. With entertaining reviews, stunning maps for reference and an easy-to-use geographical system of organisation, Where Chefs Eat will appeal to all chef-conscious restaurant goers and food lovers worldwide."
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Cadillac by Assouline
Assouline joins Cadillac in celebrating the 110th Anniversary of not just any American luxury automobile, THE American luxury automobile:
"In celebration of 110 years of one of the most iconic brands in the world, Assouline presents the first luxury book on America’s foremost luxury car. Cadillac takes readers on a visual journey through all the decades of its history. Here are presidents and Hollywood stars, closed-body cars and concept cars, the classic and the cutting-edge. Cadillac enthusiasts and car collectors alike will delight in an edition that brings to life the powerful and seductive energy of an American legend."
Assouline, $75. Link
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The New York Times, 36 Hours: 125 Weekends in Europe
Taschen and the NY Times follow up the acclaimed and comprehensive travel guide, 36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada with a new title that collects Times' 36 Hours columns for Europe:
"Culture, history, natural beauty, fine cuisine, artistic masterpieces, cutting-edge architecture and style—Europe overflows with so many riches that a lifetime seems too short to appreciate them. But with the right guidance, you can go far in a single weekend. Stylishly written and carefully researched, this updated and expanded collection of the popular New York Times 36 Hours feature offers you 125 well-crafted itineraries for quick but memorable European trips, accompanied by hundreds of color photographs to fire your imagination. Explore the expected: the Renaissance in Florence, surfing in Biarritz, flamenco in Seville. And discover the unexpected: Sicilian mummies dressed in their Sunday best, a dry-land toboggan ride on Madeira, a hotel in Tallinn with a KGB spies’ nest on the penthouse floor. World capitals, ancient nations that once ruled wide domains, tiny countries with big personalities—it’s all Europe, and all fun to read about (whether you actually go or not) in this handsomely designed and illustrated book."
$40, Taschen Link
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The Sartorialist: Closer
Scott Schuman, better known as The Sartorialist, follows up his first book with "Closer", a 512 page photographic volume covering a variety of shots from Schuman's travels across the globe. The book will be available in an individually numbered limited edition ($137) and paperback which will both be available on August 29th. Link / Via Selectism
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Phaidon 20th Century World Architecture
Hitting shelves this October, Phaidon releases a massive volume detailing over 750 works of architecture from 1900 to 1999 in the definitive, 824 page, 20th Century World Architecture:
"20th Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes architectural icons with regional masterpieces.
Specially designed and commissioned graphics at the start of the atlas explore the changing economic and political contexts of architectural production throughout this fascinating century, and highlight the flow of architectural ideas and architects around the globe. The selection of projects brilliantly illustrates the built outcomes of these formal and cultural influences in every corner of the world, with some surprising revelations.
Divided into six world regions and 29 sub-regions, over 80 countries are represented. The collection is the result of a rigorous selection process and the input of more than 150 specialists from around the world, ensuring that each region has benefited from expert advice.
Every building is located on maps that are defined by contemporary political geography, with detailed information accompanying each project, which is fully illustrated and described by a short text. In addition, a mass of useful information is provided in extensive indexes."
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Saturdays Magazine
Style.com gets a first look at NY-based Saturday Surf's first print magazine. While the magazine will feature a variety of surf-based coverage, don't go expecting a full on surf publication. The magazine will cover a variety of topics including interviews with hotelier Sean MacPherson and fashion designer Jimmy'Z. Plans are to publish the magazine biannually and look out for the first issue to hit Saturdays boutiques on August 1st. Link
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Stone Island Archivio '982-'012
Pioneering the utilization of technical fabrics in menswear, Stone Island details three decades of its fashion forward sportswears with Archivio '982-'012. The book features over 300 images from the Stone Island archives and is a trilingual edition, translated in Italian, English, and French. Link
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Hypebeast Magazine
The ultimate online streetwear resource expands into print with Hypebeast Issue 1: The Synthesis Issue:
"From Hypebeast.com comes the much anticipated eponymous printed publication. A 200 page magazine that encompasses the very essence of Hypebeast, yet also forms as a platform that delves into and divulges the subjects featured throughout. Released quarterly throughout the year, each themed issue will offer rich interviews and in-depth features, as well as vivid shoots and photo-spreads that makes this magazine aesthetically engaging. Relevant to what is contemporary and pleasing in its simplistic layout design, the Hypebeast magazine is your source for understanding fashion, culture and lifestyle."
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Marc Newson
Taschen collects design icon Marc Newson's complete works to date in a massive 610-page design bible covering everything from his restaurants to his foray into watches:
"This comprehensive tome leaves no stone unturned in cataloguing all of Newson’s works to date, from early pieces such as Lockheed Lounge (which holds the world record for the highest price paid for a piece of designer furniture, at over two million dollars) through designs of household objects and more recent, large scale projects such as the Ford 021C concept car, the Kelvin40 plane, the interior of Qantas’s A380, and the Aquariva boat."
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Mario Testino. Private View.
Mario Testino's legendary fashion and pop-culture photography has been collected in a new book entitled, Mario Testino. Private View.:
"The mere mention of Mario Testino’s name evokes a rush of adrenalin in anyone that cares, even a bit, about the worlds of fashion and celebrity. So omnipresent is he at major magazine shoots and A-list events—an insider if ever there was one—that he has become a celebrity himself. The launch of Testino's latest book, to celebrate his inaugural exhibition in China, brings together an exciting selection of his best studio work with glamorous examples of his candid shots. A beaming Gwyneth Paltrow clutching her freshly-won Oscar, a fur-cloaked Jennifer Lopez atop a commode, and the unforgettable portraits of royalty including Diana, Princess of Wales, and her sons are just a few of the hundreds of iconic pictures that are brought together, for the first time, inside the book."
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