Paris by Paris

In Paris, you need only look up to be captivated by the beauty of the city's monuments, bursting with history and stories. The center of Paris? That's everywhere. Paris offers no insignificant spaces, no impersonal desolate nowhere. For centuries Paris has seemed indifferent to that globalized, voracious, giddy form of cannibalism called "urban development." Indeed, even if you know all 6,500 streets of the city perfectly, Paris will always remain the capital of wandering. To roam Paris, you need no pretext; you simply adopt this city that has long considered itself ideal for the flâneur.

An ode to the City of Lights, the coffee table book "Paris by Paris" is a true journey through the 20th century through the lens of history, as well as art, fashion, culture and style. In seven chapters, readers discover the glory days of the Belle-Epoque, the Roaring Twenties and the revived intellectual and artistic creativity of the postwar era. They stroll the grands boulevards, where the beauty of the city's monuments is bursting with history and stories to tell, and get to know the city in a way that only the brightest insiders know.

Following Assouline's bestseller New York by New York, the coffee table book "Paris by Paris" contains rarely seen photographs, including some of the first-ever photographs of the 2024 Olympics published in a book. Carefully presented in the distinctive Assouline style, the book offers a unique celebration of the City of Lights. The book comes in a deluxe slipcase and is narrated by authors Ariel Wizman and Harold Cobert. It is also accompanied by an insightful foreword by Frédéric Beigbeder and is made complete with a timeline of the city's key moments over the past few centuries.

Specifications
Title: Paris by Paris
Author: Ariel Wizman
Publisher: Assouline
Size: 280 x 360 x 80 mm
Size: 368 pages
Weight: 4.5 kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781649802668

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