Shot in Sicily: 20 Years of Photographs, 1987-2007 - Michael Roberts - 2007

Published by Electa 1992 in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, June 25-Sept. 25, softback in slipcase. On the 22nd July 1952, Giovanni Battista Giorgini, a Florentine fashion buyer, organised the fourth ‘Italian High Fashion Show’ in the Sala Bianca. He invited European and American press, buyers and designers, in order to showcase the best of Italian fashion...

A very scarce book published by Carla Sozzani founder of 10 Corso Como in Milan as a tribute to Walter Albini (1941-1983) and his contribution to Italian...

Published by Phaidon Press Limited, 1st edition, London 1998. Hardback with English text - an introduction by Patrick Kinmonth. Mario Testino and his oeuvre certainly need no intr...

Italian Empire Furniture, Furnishings and Interior Design 1800 -1843 Published by Rizzoli, New York / Philadelphia, 1998. Hard Cover in Slipcase. First Printing. Napoleon's arriva...

Palazzi of Sicily by Angheli Zalapi Hardcover. This book is the first to trace the evolution in style of the fabulous homes that have been built on the island of Sicily, from feudal...

Discovering Italian wines;: An authoritative compendium of wines, food, and travel through the nineteen producing regions of Italy Unbound. Balzar, Robert Lawrence (Introduction) & R...

View From My Window is a contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg. A room with a view in Palermo, Sicily -- a city founded in 734BC. Looking out towards the hills of Palermo...

Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book. To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples, and Rome. Countless books, paintings, poems, and sculptures are evidence of its undying appeal, and over the past 60 years, the country has become one of the world’s top travel and holiday destinations. The loveliness of Italy—its architecture, landscapes, culture and food (some of the world’s finest!)—if not eternal, is certainly enduring, and the easygoing and relaxed Italian lifestyle, il dolce far niente, is still unrivaled. Here, some of Italy’s most amazing landscapes are brought to life, like Lake Como (residence of George Clooney), Venice, Florence and Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, and no less magical, the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily. In these mythical surroundings are legendary hotels full of atmosphere, where novels are set, movies are made, weddings are celebrated, and famous love stories consummated: Villa d’Este on Lake Como, the Hotel Splendido...