SPRING 2019 WWW.POINTEDLEAFPRESS.COM NEW DAWN The Career of the Legendary Fashion Retailer Dawn Mello BY JOHN A. TIFFANY Pointed Leaf Press is proud to present the first monograph on Dawn Mello in a lavishly- illustrated book that spans her impressive career. In 1975, Mello was hired in partnership with then CEO, Ira Neimark, as Fashion Director and VP of Bergdorf Goodman. Together they turned the ANTOINE BOOTZ once dowdy department store into the retail A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER center of luxury fashion. In the late 1980s, Mello left Bergdorf Goodman to revitalize the fading It gives me great pleasure to present the Pointed Leaf Press catalog and nearly-bankrupt Gucci. While there, she for the first half of 2019. Since the company was founded in 2002, it has hired Tom Ford as creative director and Richard grown to become one of the top—and award-winning— publishers of Lambertson as design director. By the time she illustrated books in the worlds of interior design, fashion, art, and left, Gucci was back on top as a bonafide photography. As a former art historian, and after over 35 years as a high-fashion brand. She has spent decades journalist, editor, and reporter, at such publications as the New York bringing other people’s stories to life, silently in Times, as well as at numerous magazines such as New York, Esquire, Elle the background while others took their bow. She Decor, and House & Garden, I continue to be fascinated by the careers identified talent, pursued designers, and helped and accomplishments—as well as the intimate and powerful stories—of launch and nurture their careers. Michael Kors, the talented people in the creative fields that are so influential and Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, essential to the world in which we live. At Pointed Leaf Press, I work Gian Franco Ferre, Azzedine Alaia, Claude closely as a team with Frederico Farina, our creative director, and Kelly Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, Koester, our managing editor, to ensure that each of our books is Jo Malone–and the list goes on. Discover the designed, produced, and edited to the highest standards. Each of our amazing career of the formidable Dawn Mello. titles is individualistic and created to suit the needs and aspirations of its author—whether to feature, for today’s audiences, the work of top interior JOHN A. TIFFANY grew up in California’s Santa designers and architects, or to introduce the work of legendary Ynez Valley and later graduated from photographers to a new generation. Collecting, one of my life- Pepperdine University’s International & long passions, is also the focus of many of our titles, offering a Intercultural Affairs program. He speaks at glimpse into subjects that are both original and stimulating. I am museums, corporations, clubs, and universities particularly proud that many of our custom-designed books have not only and appears frequently on television, radio, been successful in the marketplace, but continue to serve as and film, and is a frequent pundit in efficient marketing and branding tools for their authors. I hope you will newspapers, magazines, and online including also enjoy discovering our new website, interact with us through social The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, media, and continue to value the beautifully-designed illustrated book as Women’s Wear Daily, Town & Country, Harper’s one of the most vital and important cultural elements of our time. Bazaar, W, Elle Décor, and House Beautiful. He is the author of Eleanor Lambert: Still Here Suzanne Slesin published by Pointed Leaf Press. Publisher/Editorial Director [email protected] 9.5” X 12.125”, 241mm X 308mm HARDCOVER 198 Pages OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-1-938461-95-8 $37.50 USD WHOLESALE RIGHTS AVAILABLE 2 POINTEDLEAFPRESS.COM FASHION 3 NEW NEW IN DREAMS AWAKE JENNIFER POST MODERN JENNIFER POST I BY KATHY RUTTENBERG BY JENNIFER POST WRITTEN BY ANNA KASABIAN On April 27, 2018, six large-scale sculptures MODERN were unveiled along New York’s historic Jennifer Post Modern is the second monograph Broadway – from across from Lincoln Center, at on the AD100 designer best known for her 64th Street and extending up to 157th Street. sleek white minimalist interiors. The book The artist, Kathy Ruttenberg, most known for features Post’s latest and most significant her fantastical mix of human, nature, and plant projects to date–the majority of which have forms used in ceramics, watercolor, and never been published. Working in some of sculpture, spent months planning, designing, New York’s most impressive luxury buildings and executing the works. From an armless as well as in the Hamptons, Florida, and the mouse atop a squash-like pedestal, to an Caribbean, the style of these interiors reflects upside-down female Atlas, a woman caught in a shift in her design philosophy. As she moves a contemplative moment while inside a snail’s away from purely monochromatic spaces and shell, and a deer-man and his tree-lady partner introduces more vivid colors and dark who walk in an embrace–these fairytale- contrasts, Post still works tirelessly to create like creatures are juxtaposed against New modern lifestyles for her clients. Featuring York’s chaotic urban landscape. In Dreams three double-page gatefolds showcasing Awake–also the name of the installation–tracks a few especially jaw-dropping interiors, Ruttenberg’s progress from concept to the final Jennifer Post Modern is a reflection on her results. Sponsored by the Broadway Mall recent transformation as she looks forward to Association, the installation will be up through her next brilliant act. March 2019. JENNIFER POST is the mastermind and driving Artist KATHY RUTTENBERG has built a career force behind the award-winning architecture spanning three decades. Her work, which has and design firm, Jennifer Post Inc. For over garnered both critical acclaim and awards, has 20 years, she has been at the forefront of been exhibited and collected worldwide—from creating elegant modern, contemporary homes the Tisch Children’s Zoo in New York’s Central with a flair of sophistication sought after by Park to the Mamiraua Sustainable Development an elite clientele. Post’s ability to edit living Reserve in Amazonas, Brazil. spaces down to the most essential, uncluttered luxuries has earned her and her firm a world class reputation amongst the country’s leading architects and designers. 9.5” X 12.125” / 241mm X 308mm 9” X 12”, 229mm X 305mm HARDCOVER HARDCOVER 162 PAGES 240 PAGES OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS OVER 150 ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-1-938461-90-3 ISBN: 978-1-938461-88-0 $32.50 USD WHOLESALE $37.50 USD WHOLESALE RIGHTS AVAILABLE RIGHTS AVAILABLE 4 ART INTERIOR DESIGN 5 NEW NEW SUPER F**KING LUCKY ARTIFACT Lucien Pellat-Finet: King of Cashmere and The Art and Gardens of Jeff Mendoza (Anti) Fashion BY JEFF MENDOZA BY NATASHA FRASER-CAVASSONI Artifact presents the thoughtful and As Lucien Pellat-Finet and his eponymous sophisticated landscape designs of Jeff fashion label celebrate 25 years, he looks back Mendoza. A formally trained artist, his work on his life and career and how he became the often reflects the natural world–depicting King of Cashmere. A proponent of streetwear botanical forms with earthly palettes. He chic, he is reputed for his signature use of noticed this connection and opened his symbols such as the hemp leaf, peace sign, eponymous firm, J. Mendoza Gardens in 1987. iconic cartoon characters, and skulls on the While plants became his medium, he most exquisite and luxurious sweaters. Super approached the design of a garden in the F**king Lucky traces the moments and places same manner he would a drawing or painting– that have left a lasting effect on his style and considering form, color, texture, scale, and the aesthetic. From his childhood on France’s overall composition. Artifact is a portfolio of legendary Cote D’Azur, to getting stoned on Mendoza’s accomplished career tracing his Ipanema Beach in 1968, to being discovered various projects–whether a city terrace or a as a model by the iconic designer Pierre country yard–each is intellectually planned for Cardin; to styling Thierry Mugler’s fashion their unique environment and spatial layout. shows in the 1970s to witnessing the skateboard and biker cultures of California – JEFF MENDOZA is an artist and plantsman who these experiences come through in his created J. Mendoza Gardens in 1987.His work effortlessly elegant and collectible clothes has been widely published in numerous made for men, women, and children. Super publications including House and Garden and F**king Lucky is a bold and thrilling look, as Garden Design. His projects included both well as an intimate portrait, of an original, corporate and residential clients. Now retired, irreverent, and out-of-the-mainstream designer. he lives in New York City. NATASHA FRASER-CAVASSONI is an author, journalist, and leading expert on Paris, luxury and lifestyle. Her books include Sam Spiegel, Chanel Fashion, Tino Zervudachi, Dior Glamour, Monsieur Dior, Loulou de la Falaise, BiYan, Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent, Vogue on Calvin Klein and her memoir, After Andy–Adventures in Warhol Land. Fraser-Cavassoni has also taught at the American University in Paris and is the co-producer of Inside Dior, the two-part television series. From 1999–2004, she was the European editor for Harper’s Bazaar, after being a staff member at Women’s Wear Daily and W, and assisting Karl Lagerfeld at the Chanel 9” X 12”, 229mm X 305mm studio. Fraser-Cavassoni lives in Paris with her 8” X 10.375”, 203mm X 265mm HARDCOVER two daughters. HARDCOVER 216 PAGES 136 PAGES OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS OVER 75 ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-1-938461-91-0 ISBN: 978-1-938461-89-7 $32.50 USD WHOLESALE $25 USD WHOLESALE RIGHTS AVAILABLE RIGHTS AVAILABLE 6 FASHION LANDSCAPE DESIGN 7 MONSIEUR DIOR DRAWING FASHION Once Upon a Time The Art of Kenneth Paul Block BY NATASHA FRASER-CAVASSONI BY SUSAN MULCAHY FOREWORD BY YVES SAINT LAURENT Monsieur Dior: Once Upon a Time is an INTRODUCTION BY ISAAC MIZRAHI exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the ten years Christian Dior ran his esteemed house.