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Whenever the rich and famous are in Paris, they head for the city's most beautiful square, the Place Vendôme, and the two elegant streets leading to it--the Rue de la Paix and the Rue de Castiglione. In this delightful book, a veritable paean to conspicuous consumption, Alexis Gregory reconstructs a wonderfully rich and varied tapestry of the changing life of the Place Vendôme, originally conceived by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, First Architect to ...
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New York, New York, U.S.A. 1997 Hardcover 1st Edition Near Fine in Near Fine jacket Book Hard bound with dust jacket. Mild age toning to dust jacket, otherwise near fine. ... Whenever the rich and famous are in Paris, they head for the city's most beautiful square, the Place Vend?me, and the two elegant streets leading to it--the Rue de la Paix and the Rue de Castiglione. In text and photographs, Paris Deluxe traces the history of the Place Vend?me, from the square's beginnings as a high-risk property speculation, to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art, a playground for international society that converges at the Paris Ritz, undoubtedly still the most elegant, expensive, and comfortable hotel in the world. [Heavy-Please contact for overseas shipping quote] Read more Show Less

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Whenever the rich and famous are in Paris, they head for the city's most beautiful square, the Place Vendôme, and the two elegant streets leading to it--the Rue de la Paix and the Rue de Castiglione. In this delightful book, a veritable paean to conspicuous consumption, Alexis Gregory reconstructs a wonderfully rich and varied tapestry of the changing life of the Place Vendôme, originally conceived by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, First Architect to the Sun King Louis XIV, as a tribute to the monarch.

In text and photographs, Paris Deluxe traces the history of the Place Vendôme, from the square's beginnings as a high-risk property speculation, to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art, a playground for international society that converges at the Paris Ritz, undoubtedly still the most elegant, expensive, and comfortable hotel in the world. The cast of extraordinary personalities who have left their marks on the square covers the spectrum from fashion and jewelry--names like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Frederic Worth, Cartier, Boucheron--to financiers J.P. Morgan and John Law, and every prominent name in art and high society--Edward, Prince of Wales, the Vanderbilts, Baroness Guy de Rothschild, Lillie Langtry, René Lalique and the Crozats, whose art collection was bought by Diderot for Catherine the Great.

The presence of tycoons and crooks, dealers and collectors, couturiers and fashion plates, jewelers and their royal clients, politicians, Russian Grand Dukes, Indian Maharajas, and celebrities from movie stars to Ernest Hemingway has lent the Place Vendôme an ineffable aura. Thisluxuriously illustrated and evocatively written book will be cherished by every sybarite, francophile, and person of fashion.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780847820610
  • Publisher: Rizzoli
  • Publication date: 11/15/1997
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 8.12 (w) x 7.20 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Table of Contents

I 300 Years of History
Louis XIV 11
Property Speculation 13
Revolution 19
The First Empire 20
The Restoration 21
Today 31
II Money and Art
The Credit Foncier 34
Antoine and Pierre Crozat 39
John Law 41
John Pierpont Morgan 45
Collectors and Dealers 49
Morgan Today 56
Ivar Kreuger 57
III Fashion
Charles Frederick Worth 64
Christophe Charvet 76
Accessories 83
Revolution 90
Chanel 92
Schiaparelli 106
IV Jewelers
Napoleon and the First Empire 120
The Second Empire 126
Bijouterie and joaillerie 130
The Great Lalique 130
La haute joaillerie 131
Great Stones 134
The Garland Style 146
Expansion and Change 150
Maharajas and Nawabs 168
Accessories 172
Mystery Clocks 173
Depression and War 174
International 179
V Grand Hotels
Cesar Ritz 199
The Paris Ritz 206
Addresses 228
Bibliography 236
Acknowledgments 237
Photographic Credits 238
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