Sotheby's, former Director Anne Ceresole, saying "art
historians are sometimes afraid of a good sensuous
photograph." The latter abound in de Nicolay-Mazery's
oeuvre, and I am happy, at this moment, to be exploring
a heap of four such tomes, reveling in their wise words
and lavish pictures.
French Interiors: the Art of Elegance, is, like all de Nicolay's
books, a classic, with in-depth portraits of just nine
interiors, the crème de la crème of a large field. In any case,
these dwellings alone give any reader, but particularly the
aspiring interior designer, nine courses of rich food for
thought, transmitted through photographs by Christina
Vervitsioti-Missoffe and de Nicolay-Mazery's eloquent
text. The interiors in the book are well known and have
been widely published, but never before with such depth
and delectation. De Nicolay invites us inside, among
others, Yves Saint-Laurent's and Pierre Berge's Siberian
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