2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers (The Artsy Edit)
As a long-time lover of design and the decorative arts (as well as being your resident design professional!), this holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a quick go-to guide for the fellow design enthusiasts in your life!
In this series, I’ll present a curated mix of unique items to satisfy everyone on your nice list from the hostess with the mostest to the good boys who’ve managed to stay out of the doghouse this year! This fifth installation is all about gifts for book lovers (part two!).
Specifically the girlies who love art and a beautifully curated shelf or coffee table. After all, that office won’t decorate itself!
(looking at myself in the mirror, evil Kermit style iykyk 😅)
Whether you’re looking for genuine gift ideas for the art lovers in your life or if you plan to save this post as you prepare to gift something to yourself- I’ve still got you covered!
Hoping this list is helpful and makes this season a bit more merry and bright
xo Cherish-Joie xo
For Art Book Lovers
Gray Malin: The Essential Collection (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $43.99
Gray Malin: The Essential Collection celebrates the work of the fine art photographer, featuring more than 300 beloved images from his most iconic shoots, as well as material that has never been seen or published.
Journey high above Manhattan’s skyline, return to the sunny beaches of Positano, and take a stroll through the Parker Palm Springs with Malin’s unforgettable four-legged hosts. With vibrant imagery from all seven continents and stories of how each collection was made, this stunning volume will invite you into the colorful world of Gray Malin and help make every day a getaway.
Body: The Photography Book (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $44.72
Curator and art historian Nathalie Herschdorfer brings together over three hundred and fifty images created predominantly in the twenty-first century that explore our relationship with the body. This watershed publication presents work from major names in art photography… Capturing the complex and often paradoxical relationship we have with our bodies―from fantasy to reality and curiosity to obsession―Body is a timely homage to, and introspection of, the human form as it sits in our current culture.
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence (Hardcover)
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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features a new body of paintings and sculptures by American artist Kehinde Wiley confronting the legacies of colonialism through the visual language of the fallen figure. Hans Holbein’s painting, the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–22), triggered an ongoing investigation into the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art that Wiley traced across religious, mythological and historical subjects. An Archaeology of Silence extends these considerations to include men and women around the world whose senseless deaths, often unacknowledged or silenced, are transformed into a powerful elegy of global resistance.
Wiley is best known for his vibrant portrayals of contemporary African American and African-diasporic individuals that subvert the hierarchies and conventions of Eurocentric portraiture.
Beatriz Milhazes: Avenida Paulista (Hardcover)
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This is the most comprehensive book to date on Beatriz Milhazes, featuring many previously unpublished paintings and prints. Milhazes, a pivotal figure in contemporary art and the history of abstraction, works with a complex repertoire of images associated with different motifs, origins and sources. She works mainly in painting, printmaking and collage, but also in drawing, sculpture, artist’s books and textiles, among other mediums. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, geometry and free form, her compositions are intricate, dense, multicolored and literally full of layers―of colors, paints, papers and meaning.
Frida Kahlo: The Masterworks (Hardcover)
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As a woman artist who confronted many taboo subjects—and herself—head-on, Kahlo produced groundbreaking work that shifted the terrain of the art world. In these pages, new high-resolution photographs present the most accurate reproductions ever of her visionary artworks, including many ravishing details. That astounding fidelity and the detailed analysis of the artist’s life and process combine to make this a must-have book for Kahlo’s legions of fans worldwide.
Readable and illuminating, Frida Kahlo is illustrated with rarely seen paintings from private collections alongside iconic favorites, including many of Kahlo’s striking self-portraits and her sensual still-life.
Kelly Wearstler: Synchronicity (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $54.00
Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and successful designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent residential and commercial interiors.
Celebrated for pioneering and provocative interiors that guide global trends, Kelly Wearstler is known for her iconic designs of residences and boutique hotels. Pairing an exploration of materiality, color, and form with an intuitive juxtaposition of contemporary, vintage, architectural, and organic sensibilities, she has defined an aesthetic that is all her own. With a social media following that has grown to exceed two million and expansion into her own lines of furniture, lighting, and decor, hers is one of the most distinctive voices in the interiors world.
Accidentally Wes Anderson (Hardcover)
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A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-so world of his films, presented with fascinating human stories behind each façade.
Accidentally Wes Anderson began as a personal travel bucket list, a catalog of visually striking and historically unique destinations that capture the imagined worlds of Wes Anderson. Fueled by a vision for distinctive design, stunning photography, and unexpected narratives, Accidentally Wes Anderson is a passport to inspiration and adventure. Perfect for modern travelers and fans of Wes Anderson's distinctive aesthetic, this is an invitation to look at your world through a different lens.
Andy Warhol Polaroids 1958 - 1987 (Hardcover)
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Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos.
Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are included alongside images of Warhol’s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol’s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.
Beauty & Mischief: The Design Alchemy of Blackman Cruz (Hardcover)
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With a keen eye for evocative design, Adam Blackman and David Cruz have been delighting their showroom audiences with their insatiable avidity for acquiring show-stopping furniture, lighting, and decorative arts for over thirty years. Gravitating toward the rare, dramatic, and playful, these purveyors of “life enhancers” create environments with objects that captivate with their multisensory design aesthetic and unusual provenance.
Beauty & Mischief showcases the merchants’ predilection for the quirky and the quintessential, inviting readers to indulge their senses and curate their own spaces.
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting (Hardcover)
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This landmark publication accompanies an international touring exhibition devoted to Black figuration in painting from the 1920s to now, featuring artists from Africa and the African diaspora.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, CapeTown, When We See Us presents a comprehensive exploration of Black representation through portraiture and figuration, celebrating Black subjectivity and Black consciousness from Pan-African and Pan-Diasporic perspectives.
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