Assouline Valentino: At The Emperor’s Table Book

Photographed by renowned Italian photographer Oberto Gili, and organized by residence, the “Valentino: At the Emperor’s Table Book” from Assouline invites the reader to enjoy various table settings and recipes specific to each home.

As fashion editor and friend André Leon Talley writes in the introduction, “Valentino Garavani designs his luncheons and dinners, in all of his homes, the way he has created crescendos and allegros vivace throughout his forty-plus-year career as one of the greatest haute couture designers and high-fashion leaders in the world.” A flan au chevre may be served on Portuguese porcelain at his ski chalet in Gstaad, while a visit to his home in London reveals a “decorating masterpiece”–says Talley in his text–with an orientalist dining room of blue and white china.

The New York City pied-a-terre showcases “table decorations…limitless in their exquisiteness” including Russian dinner-service sets and ruby red Irish glass plates. On T.M. Blue One, guests are served Mediterranean-inspired cuisine atop custom, seafaring-themed dinner service sets. “I love sharing the things in my life with my friends,” Valentino says. Make a statement with this beautiful book – a perfect piece for your home or office that also makes the perfect gift for your fashion-conscious loved ones.

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