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I hope you will visit us on our website, interact with us through social media, and continue to value the beautifully- designed illustrated book as one of the most vital and important cultural elements of our time. Suzanne Slesin Publisher/Editorial Director [email protected] 5 NEW NEW LOOK AT ME SKOLNICK ARCHITECTURE BY FIROOZ ZAHEDI +DESIGN PARTNERSHIP Public/PrivateSKOLNICKARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PARTNERSHIP SKOLNICKARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PARTNERSHIP From acclaimed Hollywood photographer BY SKOLNICK ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN Firooz Zahedi comes Look at Me, a collection of PARTNERSHIP his most distinguished and intimate celebrity FOREWORD BY PAUL GOLDBERGER portraits. From editorial commissions from magazines—including Vanity Fair, Glamour, Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership: InStyle, GQ, and Entertainment Weekly, to iconic Public/Private presents the first monograph movie posters such as Pulp Fiction, Edward from the award-winning New York-based Scissorhands, and The Addams Family—Zahedi architectural firm. Covering nearly 40 years of has been photographing Hollywood’s biggest work, the book—presented in a unique stars for over 35 years. Each photograph is double-sided, two-cover format—exhibits accompanied by a short text offering personal projects in both the public and private sectors. insight into how each shot came together. Also IncludedP R in the Ipublic VAT section is a sprawling E PUBLIC included are never-before-seen photographs as center for entrepreneurial education, a science well as special behind-the-scenes snapshots center built in an old turbine hall, a light-filled and notes from Zahedi’s appreciative subjects. synagogue, two colorful and bright public Look at Me is a celebration of this golden age libraries, and a children’s museum inspired by SKOLNICKARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PARTNERSHIP SKOLNICKARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PARTNERSHIP of celebrity as seen through the lens of one of Leonardo da Vinci. The private side features a Hollywood’s most accomplished photographers. serenely spatial six-story townhouse, a sublimely linear beach house, a residence and FIROOZ ZAHEDI was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1949. matching studios for two painters, and luxurious After a brief career as a diplomat he enrolled twin villas in Anguilla. With text by founding at the Corcoran School of Art and graduated principal Lee Skolnick, and a foreword by in 1976 earning a degree in Visual Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Communication. While still at art school he Goldberger; each chapter provides valuable began working as a photographer for Andy insight into the sensitive planning and highly Warhol’s Interview. Later, Elizabeth Taylor intellectual process that goes into each project. became his mentor and friend and in 1978 he Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership: accompanied the actress to Hollywood and Public/Private celebrates the accomplishments P R I VAT E PUBLIC worked on a film set as her personal of a firm that continues to operate at the top of photographer. He remained in Los Angeles and their game. built a successful career that culminated in a contract with Vanity Fair in 1990. He has SKOLNICK ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PARTNERSHIP exhibited his celebrity portraits as well as his is an award-winning, integrated design firm fine art photography at galleries in Los Angeles, specializing in architecture, exhibit design, New York, London, Dubai, and Basel. His interpretation, master planning, and graphic photographs are in the permanent collection of design. Since 1980, their New York City-based the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well studio has provided these services in the as the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, planning and design of museums, visitor Florida. A pictorial book of his 35 years of centers, corporate offices, residences, and friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, My Elizabeth educational institutions. 9.875” X 12.625”, 320mm X 250mm was published by Glitterati Incorporated in 11” X 11.875”, 280mm x 308mm HARDCOVER 2016. City of Angels, a book on a select group HARDCOVER 272 PAGES 248 PAGES OVER 230 ILLUSTRATIONS of architectural homes in Los Angeles was OVER 190 ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-1-938461-84-2 published by Vendome Press in 2018. ISBN: 978-1-938461-83-5 $85 USD RETAIL $95 USD RETAIL RIGHTS AVAILABLE RIGHTS AVAILABLE 6 PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHITECTURE 7 NEW THE GRAPHIC GARDEN BLOOM The Luminous Gardens of Frederico Azevedo BY KEITH WILLIAMS PREFACE BY ALEXA HAMPTON BY FREDERICO AZEVEDO The Graphic Garden is the first monograph from Bloom: The Luminous Gardens of Frederico Keith Williams, a partner, with Mario Nievera, at Azevedo presents the accomplished work of Nievera Williams Design—one of the country’s Frederico Azevedo—a leading landscape leading landscape architectural firms. Based in designer whose work carries an emphasis on South Florida, Williams has been designing flowers, which he uses to “lure the eye through sumptuous outdoor spaces for over 20 years. the flow of the design.” This stunning body of In The Graphic Garden, Williams highlights his work explores the hallmarks of an Azevedo most impressive projects to date that include garden, featuring his signature curving, floral the revitalization of several historically borders, and his creative integration of native or landmarked homes and properties. He often well-adapted plants. He also often creates integrates both native and exotic plants, builds multi-dimensional vistas using layers of flowers, opulent swimming pools, and brings in mature trees, grasses, shrubs, and hedges to dramatic trees and stone work, all of which result in effect. The results of his impeccable designs stunning gardens that are brimming with lush, are soft and romantic, always sophisticated and tropical foliage. More than just plantings, other well-executed, and most importantly, site- design elements featured include whimsical specific to the unique conditions of any pool cabanas, a vertical garden wall, a loggia environment. Discover the luminous world of inspired by the architecture of Bermuda, Frederico Azevedo and his dazzling gardens. Moorish-tiled fountains, and stone-paved motor courts. In showing the transformations and FREDERICO AZEVEDO was born in Brazil and process of these monumental design projects, studied landscape design in Brazil, England, the book highlights Williams’ penchant for and the United States. Azevedo founded sustainability, and his efforts to honor the Unlimited Earth Care, Inc. in 1993, to create natural, existing landscape while never beautiful, sustainable landscapes. He is a compromising the design. As Williams says: member of the Association of Professional “I design gardens—gardens that give back, Landscape Designers, the American that are forward-thinking, that can calm, that Horticultural Society, and the Horticultural have emotion, each with its own scale and Alliance of the Hamptons. Azevedo divides his texture, and that change and provide time between the Hamptons, New York City, Los experiences and human interaction.” Angeles, and Miami, and travels abroad frequently. For over two decades, Azevedo’s KEITH WILLIAMS, a partner at Nievera Williams award-winning, curated, and holistic approach Design Incorporated, based in Palm Beach, to landscape design has been recognized Florida, joined the firm in 1998. Originally from nationally and internationally in both Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Williams has spent architectural and landscaping publications. the past 30 years living in South Florida, where he resides with his wife, Nicole Williams, and “This stunning body of work explores his daughter, Colette. Keith also has two older the hallmarks of an Azevedo garden, 11” X 11,875”, 280mm X 300mm sons, Maxwell and Logan Williams. Keith featuring photographs of his signature 9.5” X 12.125”, 241mm X 308mm HARDCOVER Williams is involved in designing and managing curving