Beaux Books

BEAUX BOOKS is an independent book dealer specialising in Fine & Rare Books on Art & Culture, with a

The shelves are stocked with a hand-picked selection of established classics and new discoveries, as well as unique, signed and ephemeral items.

06/12/2021

Picasso teaching Claude and Paloma to draw, La Galloise, Vallauris, 1953.
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From PICASSO. THE MEDITERRANEAN YEARS 1945-1962, John Richardson, Elizabeth Cowling and Claude Arnaud, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2010.
Available on the website.

01/12/2021

Cotton dress embroidered with tomato motifs, Spring/Summer 1952, Givenchy (Givenchy Archives)
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Featured in THE GIVENCHY STYLE, Francoise Mohrt, Assouline, Paris, 1998. We have an scarce English language edition available on the website.

29/11/2021

Christian Bérard and Boris Kochno. Both photographed by John Deakin.
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Reproduced in A MAVERICK EYE. THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY OF JOHN DEAKIN, Robin Muir, Thames & Hudson, 2002. Our copy has now sold but we're sure to have another copy in soon. DM me if you'd like to add it to your wish list.

17/11/2021

Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough.
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From COUNTRY HOUSE CAMERA, by Christopher Simon Sykes, 1980. A collection of amateur photographs taken at country houses between the 1850s and the 1930s. Simon Sykes sought out albums and tranches of photos in the homes of the British and Irish aristocracy and presents them here as a record of how the upper classes lived in a vanished era.
One copy available on the website. £15

05/11/2021

Hamish Bowles wearing blazer, shirt, pants, and scarf by Aquascutum; overcoat by Aquascutum at Old England; shoes by Hackett. From 'Vogue Homme', Paris, March 1987. Photograph by Lord Snowdon. Copyright Conde Nast.
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Featured in JOCKS AND NERDS. MEN'S STYLE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Richard Martin & Harold Koda, Rizzoli, 1989.
We have one copy available on our website. £90.

03/11/2021

King of Fashion. The Autobiography of Paul Poiret. 1931.
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The first English-lanuage edition of Paul Poiret's autobiography, with a striking black and gold binding. The designer recounts how he changed the course of Parisian fashion, liberating women from their corsets. We learn about his influences and his designs, his fashion house, and his interior and perfume businesses. Poiret wrote his biography after his couture house had collapsed in 1929 and when he was struggling to make ends meet, although this side of his life is largely omitted from the book.
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One copy available on our website.

02/11/2021

The Dior Edit
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1. Dior by Dior - The Penguin edition of Christian Dior's autobiography
2. Dior by Dior - The first English edition of Dior's autobiography from 1957
3. Miss Dior - 's beautiful new book on Catherine Dior
4. Dior and his Decorators - Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy and the New Look
5. Dior in Vogue - An illustrated history of the private and public worlds of Christian Dior
6. Dior. Christian Dior 1905-1957 - Francoise Giroud's masterful monograph on Dior published by in 1987
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All on the website. Hint: all perfect Christmas gifts.

27/10/2021

Hitting the Bookshelves this Week
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Jocks and Nerds. Men's Style in the Twentieth Century
The Givenchy Style
The Nureyev Image
Francesca Woodman
David Hicks. Living with Design
Helmut Newton Portraits
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A link to all new stock is in our bio.

22/10/2021

Horst, 1931. Photograph by George Hoyningen-Huene.
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Hoyningen-Huene and Horst had a complex and involved relationship. Horst was Huene's model and photographic assistant. Huene was Horst's photographic mentor. The pair were also lovers. This photograph of Horst's torso was taken when he was 24 and working in Huene's studio. It was taken on the 'Vogue' roof. An athletic Horst takes up a heroic, Olympic pose.
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Currently reading THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART OF HOYNINGEN-HUENE by William A. Ewing.
The book is available on our website, hardback, £90

11/10/2021

National Time, Detroit, 2009. Photograph by Andrew Moore.
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This Dali-esque image is featured in ANDREW MOORE. MAKING HISTORY. SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS 1980-2010, Reflex Editions, Amsterdam, 2010, limited to 500 copies.
One copy available on the website - £70

28/09/2021

Cecil Beaton's witty account of the first 25 years of his career, filled with anecdotes and photos. Published before the diaries, Photobiography is an early memoir from Beaton. It's focus is on his career as a photographer, from his early boyhood with his Box Brownie to the post-War photographs of the Royal Family, taking in Hollywood, Vogue and the War along the way.
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PHOTOBIOGRAPHY, Cecil Beaton, Odhams Press, London, 1951.
Want it? We have one copy on the website, £50.
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22/09/2021

Hitting the bookshelves this week.
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1. Mariano Fortuny. His Life and Work
2. Edward Bawden
3. Rex Whistler 1905-1944. A Memorial Exhibition
4. Bacon
5. Lucian Freud on Paper
6. Country Houses of the Cotswolds
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All from the library of theatre designer David Collis.
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