Sudpsuez A Mechanical Bestiary: Automaton Clocks from the Renaissance by Alexis Kugel
Words by Alexis Kugel
This exhibition, Galerie Kugel’s tenth, continues the tradition of seeking out little-known but fascinating fields in the art world. Renaissance automaton clocks have never been the subject of scientific study, authors of horological reference works devoting at best merely a chapter to them.
These automaton clocks date from 1580 to 1630 and were for the most part created in Augsburg, the main German artistic centre of the time. These wonderful objects combine the arts of sculpture and horology. Rivalling in fantasy and ingenuity, they fascinated the European courts. Today, they can be found in museums holding great princely collections in Vienna, Dresden, Munich. Automaton clocks were also used as diplomatic presents.
The thirty-one automaton clocks presented in this exhibition and book are the largest group ever displayed. While studying them we have made surprising discoveries. For example, the troubling similarities between some of the most extraordinary anonymous clocks displayed here: the Elephant (cat. 3), the large Pacing Lion and his Tamer (cat. 7), the large Seated Lion (cat. 9), and the Chariot of Bacchus (cat. 11), which strongly argue for their having been produced in the same workshop. Among all the clocks published in this book, only one comes from Nuremberg (cat. 21). The chronological presentation that we chose also led us to rethink the conventional dating of certain pieces.
The title “Mechanical Bestiary” is somewhat restrictive, for among the clocks presented here, a quarter represent human figures without animals, and certain pieces possess no mechanical movements. Yet the thirty-one pieces assembled here clearly form a homogeneous and coherent whole. All were created for the same reason: to amuse and delight the collectors of their time.
Sudpsuez A Weekend in Italy
From family trattorias where recipes pass through generations to hidden Renaissance gardens, in Italy authentic experiences are born from local whispers, not tourist maps. Thoughtfully curated by the Family, our city guide unlocks the most enchanting corners of the Italian peninsula.
Destinations Featured: Asolo, Bologna, Catania, Ferrara, Florence, Genoa, Lecce, Lucca, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Napoli, Noto, Padova, Palermo, Parma, Perugia, Ravenna, Rome, Siena, Siracusa, Taormina, Termoli, Turin, Trieste, and Venice.
Sudpsuez A Year in the French Style, Interiors and Entertaining by Vincent Farelly
Written by Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin
Foreword by John Derian
Photographs by Ruth Ribeaucourt
The founders of Antoinette Poisson take readers inside their historic townhouse on the Atlantic coast to discover a style and art of entertaining rooted in French tradition and elegance.
Maison Lescop—the historic residence of an eighteenth-century French importer for the Indian trading company in Port-Louis, Brittany—seemed predestined to become the new home and restoration project for the creative duo behind Antoinette Poisson, a Parisian design team dedicated to reviving the savoir faire of domino paper for home decoration and furnishings. The art historians became enchanted by the poetic beauty of this artisanal craft—derived from an Indian block print technique—when they uncovered original hand-painted eighteenth-century domino wallpaper while restoring a mansion in central France.
Enchanted by the repeat-pattern domino prints, which range from florals and fauna to geometric and ikat, they have appointed their new home with the charming decorative touches that are their signature—handmade lampshades, wallpaper lined armoires, paper-mâché marriage boxes, assorted table settings, and luxurious textiles.
Celebrating the rhythm of life in France, they bring readers on adventures—shopping at the local market, antiquing, mushroom hunting, sheep’s cheese making, paper making, and textile dying—and share classic seasonal French meals inspired by antique cookbooks, served-up on hand-dyed indigo tablecloths or on nautical striped throws for a seaside picnic. They also include creative insight from their style icon friends, like American decoupage artist John Derian and French musician Clara Luciani.
Published by Flammarion
Sudpsuez Aerin Lauder: Living with Flowers
Words by Aerin Lauder
Legendary hostess and style icon Aerin Lauder shares ideas for how to bring flowers into our home, entertaining and décor, inspiring both special occasions and the everyday moments with beauty and joy.
Aerin Lauder’s love of flowers is deeply personal, being passed down to her by her celebrated grandmother, Estée Lauder, as well as her mother, Jo Carole Lauder. From fresh bouquets to floral patterns on wallpaper, fabric, and tabletop pieces, in Living with Flowers Lauder shares the many ways she brings flowers into her home. Whether it’s an arrangement of daisies in the kitchen to welcome friends or family for dinner, or a single stem on her desk to brighten the workday, flowers are an essential part of her home and her lifestyle.
With creative ideas for designing arrangements—from embracing the simple elegance of a neutral palette or incorporating a whimsical mix of color, to enhancing your holiday décor with seasonal blooms—Lauder generously shares her favorite tips and secrets.
Lauder also takes readers through her homes, showing how she brings the garden indoors through her decor. Elegant floral wallpaper in the dining room feels sophisticated and timeless, floral drapes in the bedroom are traditional and luxurious, while her contemporary floral-patterned tabletop collections add effortless, yet modern florals to her entertaining.
Reflecting her unique blend of beauty and ease, Lauder’s floral designs and decor offer endlessly inspiring ideas for how readers can integrate flowers into their own homes to create inviting and personal spaces.
Published by Rizzoli
Sudpsuez Amber: Treasures from The Baltic Sea, 16th-18th Century by Alexis Kugel and Rahul Kulka
Words by Alexis Kugel and Rahul Kulka
This richly illustrated catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition “Amber: Treasures from the Baltic Sea,” traces the history of artworks made from this mysterious material through the centuries.
In addition to the fifty works assembled and showcased by Galerie Kugel, this book focuses on the geographical and political context of the region from which Baltic amber originates, as well as the extensive typology of amber objects known in international museums.
Sudpsuez Basilius Besler. The Garden at Eichstätt
Words by Basilius Besler
When Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593/95–1612) undertook a radical renovation of the Willibaldsburg Castle, overlooking the Altmühl River in Eichstätt, Bavaria, he also created a surrounding palatial pleasure garden of magnificence and grandeur. To preserve the garden for future generations – and provide an ‘evergreen’ record of its contents, compiling plants from all four seasons and presenting them in that order – he commissioned the garden’s director, Nuremberg apothecary Basilius Besler (1561–1629), and a team of engravers to immortalize its treasures in print.
The resulting Hortus Eystettensis, published in Nuremberg in 1613 and containing 367 hand-colored plates and detailed descriptions, was a work of meticulous execution and spectacular diversity, and remarkably expensive for its time. As the garden contained a variety of plants imported from exotic locales, the three volumes exhibited a remarkable range, covering a total of 90 families and 340 genera. Due to the decorative, stylized execution of these illustrations, which began to see plants in aesthetic, rather than merely practical or medicinal terms, the book is seen as a milestone in the art of botanical illustration. While published before a time of standardized classification systems, it was nonetheless later described by Carl Linnaeus as an “incomparable work”.
Besler’s catalog long outlived the gardens, which were destroyed in 1634 by invading Swedish troops during the Thirty Years’ War. However, a lengthy redevelopment project at the historic site has culminated in the opening of the modern Bastion Garden in 1998, containing many of the plants shown in the Hortus Eystettensis.
Offering high-quality reproductions of these arresting illustrations, based on the copy of the Hortus Eystettensis at the University Library of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, this facsimile edition is accompanied by detailed plate descriptions of each plant’s botanical, pharmaceutical, and symbolic significance and an appendix of further essays which place the garden and the book in their historical contexts.
This edition presents a valuable piece of botanical literature which, on the rare occasions where a copy appears on the market, can fetch prices of over $1,000,000 at auction. In line with Besler’s original intentions, this facsimile unfurls the garden to a wider audience and captures it for posterity.
Published by Taschen
Sudpsuez British Museums: Silk Roads
Words by Sue Brunning, Luk Yu-ping, Elisabeth R. O’Connell
‘The true soul of this new exhibition has been encapsulated within a single book, a treasure trove of stories, images, and insights that brought the ancient trade routes to life.’ – .Cent magazine A richly illustrated publication that explores the networks of contacts and exchanges spanning Afro-Eurasia from 500 to 1000 ce, highlighting how the movement of people, objects and ideas shaped cultures and histories. The term ‘Silk Road’ conjures a range of romantic images. Camel caravans crossing desert dunes. Merchants trading silk and spices. Far-flung commerce between ‘East’ and ‘West’. The reality was far richer. Focusing on a defining period between 500 and 1000 CE, this beautifully illustrated book reimagines the Silk Roads as a web of interlocking networks linking Asia, Africa and Europe, from Japan to Ireland, from the Arctic to Madagascar. It tells a remarkable story of people, objects and ideas flowing in all directions, through the traces these journeys left behind – including ceramics from Tang China recovered from a shipwreck in the Java Sea, sword-fittings set with Indian garnets buried in England, and a selection of letters and legal texts from a synagogue in Cairo revealing a Jewish community’s links from India to al-Andalus. Woven throughout, encounters with various peoples active on the Silk Roads, from seafarers to Sogdians, Aksumites and Vikings, reveal the human stories, innovations and transfers of knowledge that emerged, shaping cultures and histories across continents centuries before the formation of today’s globalised world.
Published by Flammarion
Sudpsuez David Hicks In Colour by Ashley Hicks, Chevron
Limited Edition
Written & Edited by Ashley Hicks
Foreword by Tory Burch
David Hicks in colour is a tribute to the exceptional talent of interior designer David Hicks, a renowned decorator, and master of pattern, color, and design. With an introduction by Tory Burch, this limited-edition book offers a fresh insight into the life and work of David Hicks. Organized into ten color-themed portfolios, the book is a visual feast, showcasing David Hicks' most iconic designs and color palettes and previously unseen photographs, many in color for the first time. It delves into Hicks' design process and the influences that shaped his unique aesthetic.
Each copy is bound in one of three iconic David Hicks prints, designed by Christoph Radl as a Magazine-style reimagining Hicks' early books, combining their bold 60s graphics and imagery with a tactile, sensual feeling that is very much of today and very Cabana.
Published by Cabana
February 2023
Sudpsuez David Hicks In Colour by Ashley Hicks, Clinch
Limited Edition
Written & Edited by Ashley Hicks
Foreword by Tory Burch
David Hicks in colour is a tribute to the exceptional talent of interior designer David Hicks, a renowned decorator, and master of pattern, color, and design. With an introduction by Tory Burch, this limited-edition book offers a fresh insight into the life and work of David Hicks. Organized into ten color-themed portfolios, the book is a visual feast, showcasing David Hicks' most iconic designs and color palettes and previously unseen photographs, many in color for the first time. It delves into Hicks' design process and the influences that shaped his unique aesthetic.
Each copy is bound in one of three iconic David Hicks prints, designed by Christoph Radl as a Magazine-style reimagining Hicks' early books, combining their bold 60s graphics and imagery with a tactile, sensual feeling that is very much of today and very Cabana.
Published by Cabana
February 2023
Sudpsuez David Hicks in Colour by Ashley Hicks, Topkapi
Limited Edition
Written & Edited by Ashley Hicks
Foreword by Tory Burch
David Hicks in colour is a tribute to the exceptional talent of interior designer David Hicks, a renowned decorator, and master of pattern, color, and design. With an introduction by Tory Burch, this limited-edition book offers a fresh insight into the life and work of David Hicks. Organized into ten color-themed portfolios, the book is a visual feast, showcasing David Hicks' most iconic designs and color palettes and previously unseen photographs, many in color for the first time. It delves into Hicks' design process and the influences that shaped his unique aesthetic.
Each copy is bound in one of three iconic David Hicks prints, designed by Christoph Radl as a Magazine-style reimagining Hicks' early books, combining their bold 60s graphics and imagery with a tactile, sensual feeling that is very much of today and very Cabana.
Available In Three Cover Patterns: Topkapi, Chevron and Clinch
Published by Cabana
February 2023
Sudpsuez David Hicks: A Life of Design
Words by Ashley Hicks
Back in print for the first time in years, this classic of interior-design history showcases the masterful work of David Hicks (1929–1998), who is acknowledged as one of the most important designers of the late twentieth century, in the company of Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley.
Known for his bold use of color, eclecticism, and geometric designs in carpets and textiles, Hicks turned English decorating on its head in the 1950s and ’60s. His trademark use of electrifying color combinations, and mixing antiques, modern furniture, and abstract paintings became the “in style” for the chic of the day, including Vidal Sassoon and Helena Rubinstein. By the 1970s, David Hicks was a brand; his company was making wallpaper, fabrics, and linens and had outposts in eight countries, including the United States where he worked with the young Mark Hampton, and where his wallpaper was used in the White House. “My greatest contribution as an interior designer has been to show people how to use bold color mixtures, how to use patterned carpets, how to light rooms, and how to mix old with new,” he stated in his 1968 work, David Hicks on Living—With Taste, the last authoritative book on his work. Written by his son, Ashley Hicks, with unprecedented access to Hicks’s archives, personal photographs, journals, and scrapbooks, this book is a vibrantly illustrated celebration of a half century of stunning interiors.
Sudpsuez Flower Couture: From My Garden to My House
Words by Cordelia De Castellane,
Photography by Billal Taright
A second book by French tastemaker Cordelia de Castellane, celebrating her garden as an endless source of inspiration for entertaining.
Cordelia de Castellane, true ambassador of French lifestyle, returns with a sequel to Life in a French Country House and offers her inspiring ideas and secrets for gardening, unique flower arranging, and entertaining.
De Castellane turns her eyes to the gorgeous garden of her own private residence in the French countryside to offer insight into how she makes nature her muse. From delicate spring blossoms to vibrant summer bouquets starring on sun-kissed tables, autumnal herbariums, and enchanting winter fetes, each chapter is about a color of her favorite flowers and is complete with informative captions and texts uncovering her tips for living and entertaining à la française. De Castellane offers her recipes for bouquets and perfect tablescaping with examples from her own house: readers discover the journey of a flower from the garden to the tabletop. This book is a must-have guide on how to imbue every day with flair, beauty, and joie de vivre.
Published by Rizzoli