The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook

Step into the glamour of Hollywood with Rizzoli's coffee-table book "The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook. Edited by visionary and Chateau Marmont owner André Balazs, this highly anticipated reissue takes you behind the velvet curtains of Los Angeles' most legendary hotel. The book captures nearly a century of Hollywood's creative heartbeat.

As happens in literature, where sooner or later the hero turns up in a hotel, so it happens that seemingly every creative talent in Hollywood eventually checks into the Chateau. To paraphrase Somerset Maugham, speaking of another illustrious hotel in the Far East, the Chateau represents all the fables of exotic Hollywood. Call it the view from the Citadel of Bohème.

The coffee table book "The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook" is a classic and now available again for the first time since the late 1990s. The book tells a collection of fact and fiction about this magical place in Hollywood for nearly a century. With photographs by Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Dennis Hopper, Jack Pierson and Wolfgang Tillmans. It is about the icons of an evolving neighborhood, the ethos of an evolving culture, with literary contributions by William Faulkner, Lilian Ross, Budd Schulberg, Gore Vidal, Jay McInerney, Dominick Dunne and Anthony Haden-Guest. The result is not only an extraordinary body of work of films, music and literature made in and about the Chateau, but also an attitude and perspective of the surrounding culture.

Specifications
Title: The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook
Author: André Balazs
Publisher: Rizzoli
Size: 215 x 140 x 27 mm
Size: 256 pages
Language: English
Material: Paperback
ISBN: 9780789324641

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