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Vancouver Sun
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Cook This: 3 recipes for cooking with children from Paris's Rose Bakery, including breakfast crêpes
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Our cookbook of the week is Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children by Rose Carrarini, co-founder of Paris's Rose Bakery, with her daughter, nutritional therapist Marissa-Catherine Carrarini. Jump to the recipes: breakfast crêpes , cranberry and oat scones , and chicken balls with teriyaki sauce . Discover the best of B.C.'s recipes, restaurants and wine. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of West Coast Table will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. The idea for Rose Carrarini's third cookbook, Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children (Phaidon, 2025), took root during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Watching her then four-year-old granddaughter, Ada-Rose, perched on a stool stirring melted chocolate through the computer screen was one of the sparks of inspiration. 'The scariest thing ever,' says Rose, laughing. 'But it worked, and it made a lovely photograph. I've still got it.' Rose, who founded Rose Bakery in Paris, France, with her husband, Jean-Charles Carrarini, didn't often cook with their children. The couple spent a decade designing knitwear collections and visiting cities such as Milan and Tokyo. 'I was always very, very busy, and we didn't have much time to cook with them. And they weren't that interested, frankly. My daughter was vaguely interested. I was cooking, and she'd chat.' When the oldest of Rose's four grandchildren passed toddlerhood, 'I learned to deeply love cooking with little ones.' The weekly cooking lessons she held with Ada-Rose and her brother, Elijah, on Zoom during the pandemic helped inform the book (which Rose wrote with their mother and her daughter, nutritional therapist Marissa-Catherine Carrarini ). 'It's a bit idyllic for me to say, 'Every time I'm in the kitchen, they join me.' They don't. It depends on the mood of the day and what they want to do. Sometimes they'll say, 'Yes, can I help you, Granny Rose?' And then sometimes they would say, 'No, no, no, I don't want to do that.' So, it's very much at the moment — a thing that happens sometimes.' It's too soon to tell with her younger grandchildren, but Rose's lessons stayed with Elijah, now 14. Even though, as a teenager, he has other interests, Elijah is the one people rely on to bake cakes for birthday parties and other celebrations. 'So, what I've taught him was very important, and he'll have that, I suppose, all his life. He'll know how to make a cake.' The way Rose Bakery chef Aska Yoshino cooks with her two young sons at home also offered inspiration. Unlike Rose's grandchildren, Yoshino's kids like vegetables. 'I teach my children that the way vegetables are prepared, especially how they're cut, can change the taste, aromas and finish of the meal,' the chef said in the book. Recipes such as a spiky beet and apple salad came from Yoshino's household, where the young cooks carefully cut the produce into matchsticks. 'It's a different way of cooking with the children than I do. That's because my children are really fussy — super fussy — and that's why some of the recipes I've done are quite simpler than they could be, like the chicken balls (with teriyaki sauce). If I were doing it for myself, the restaurant or other people, I would put chopped herbs and all kinds of things in it. But for the children, I had to make it very plain. It's very, very plain, not very spicy.' As anyone who's cooked with children knows, it can be challenging to hold their interest and keep the pace up. More important than the outcome is that they enjoy what they're doing and have fun with it, says Rose — to achieve something that makes them proud and piques their interest in food. Rose initially hesitated when her publisher asked if she would write another book. 'I didn't want to do it because I felt that I said everything I had to say about our recipes in the first one ( Breakfast, Lunch, Tea ; originally published in 2006 and reissued in 2025), although that's actually wrong because we've gone so far away from that in many ways. And in my kitchens at Rose Bakery, we don't work from recipes — apart from the pastry, that is. We work very much instinctively, so to do recipes again was a bit of a nightmare for me,' she says, laughing. It was Marissa-Catherine who convinced Rose to dive in, becoming her co-author. 'She's brilliant at writing. So, she's the one who finally persuaded me, 'Come on, Mom. I write it, you do the recipes,' and that's how we did it.' The 50 recipes range from scrambled eggs and crêpes to more complex okonomiyaki and madeleines. Rose and Marissa-Catherine wrote Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children not as a kids' book but as a guide for adults who want to cook with the young people in their lives. In 1987, Rose and Jean-Charles left careers in fashion for food. After running a restaurant and food shop in London, they moved to Paris and opened the first Rose Bakery in 2002. Today, they have locations in London, Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles. After decades of cooking professionally, spending time in the kitchen with her grandchildren has taught Rose a few things. 'I've learned to be more forgiving and patient and, in many ways, more organized. You have to be organized when you're cooking with children. They have to have not only a safe place to work but also to know what they're doing.' She's also learned to give them space to express themselves and to be easygoing about messes. Rose recalls one virtual lesson with Elijah and Ada-Rose, during which they managed to dust every surface with flour. 'The whole kitchen was a complete bombshell. And we all had to laugh about it because, otherwise, you just start crying.' Serves: 4 Equipment: Small saucepan Pitcher Whisk Sieve Large bowl Large frying pan Fish spatula 1 1/2 tbsp butter, plus extra for frying 2 large eggs 3/4 cup (175 mL) milk 1 cup (120 g) all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt Maple syrup, lemon and sugar, cinnamon sugar or honey, to serve Melt the butter in a small saucepan. In a pitcher, whisk together the eggs, milk, melted butter and generous 1/2 cup (125 mL) water. Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and carefully whisk to create a homogeneous mix. Refrigerate for at least an hour but preferably overnight. Heat a little butter in a large frying pan over medium heat. Pour in a thin layer of batter, tilting the frying pan to spread the batter evenly. Cook for 3-4 minutes, until the bottom is lightly browned. Using a fish spatula, flip the crêpe and cook for another 3 minutes. Transfer to a serving plate and repeat with the remaining batter. Serve with your favourite toppings. Serves: 6-8 Equipment: Baking sheet Parchment paper Large bowl Wooden spoon Food processor (optional) Medium bowl Rolling pin 5-cm (2-inch) cookie cutter Small bowl Fork or whisk Pastry brush (optional) Wire rack 7 tbsp butter, plus extra for greasing Generous 1 cup (125 g) all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting Generous 1 cup (125 g) whole-wheat flour 4 tbsp sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 2/3 cup (60 g) oats 2/3 cup (160 mL) buttermilk 1 cup (125 g) dried cranberries Zest of 1 orange 1 egg, for glazing Preheat the oven to 190C (375F). Grease a baking sheet, then line it with parchment paper. In a large bowl, combine both flours, the sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and oats. Mix well using a wooden spoon. Add the butter. Using clean fingers, blend together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. (Alternatively, use a food processor to mix the mixture.) Combine the buttermilk, cranberries and orange zest in a medium bowl. Add this to the other bowl and combine until it forms a dough. (It can be nice to use your hands for this, but watch out for over-keen little hands, as it is important not to overwork the dough.) The dough should not be wet or sticky. Lightly dust a clean work counter with flour. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough about 4 cm (1 1/2 inches) thick. Cut out the scones. Place them on the prepared baking sheet, evenly spacing them 5 cm (2 inches) apart. In a small bowl, whisk the egg with a fork or whisk. Using your fingers or a pastry brush, brush the egg glaze on top of each scone. Bake for 12 minutes, or until lightly golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Serves: 4 Equipment: Sharp knife Cutting board Grater Medium saucepan Wooden spoon Fine-mesh sieve (optional) Medium bowl Large frying pan Plate Baking dish For the teriyaki sauce: 1 onion 1 (5-cm/2-inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled 1 tbsp olive oil or sesame oil 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp mirin 2 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp sake (optional) For the chicken balls: 700 g (1 lb 9 oz) ground chicken or 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts 2 onions 5 tbsp olive oil 2 cloves garlic 3 tbsp breadcrumbs or panko 1 egg 1/2 tbsp soy sauce (optional) 1 tsp cayenne pepper (optional) Salt and pepper, to taste Finely chop the onion. Grate the ginger. Heat the olive oil or sesame oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and ginger and sauté for 5 minutes, until the onion is softened, translucent and without colour. If necessary, add a splash of water and reduce the heat. Add the soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sake, if using. If you want a lighter sauce, you can add a tablespoon of water. Cook for 3-5 minutes, until slightly thickened and syrupy. Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow to cool. Some people like the sauce with the onions and ginger, some people like the sauce strained and smooth — either way is lovely. Finely chop the chicken breasts, if using. Put the chicken into a medium bowl. Thinly slice the onions. Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the onions and sauté for 7 minutes, until softened, translucent and golden. If the onions start to turn dark, add a splash of water and reduce the heat. Using the flat part of the knife, press the garlic against the cutting board. Repeat the motion until a fine paste forms. Add the mashed garlic, then season with salt and pepper. Cook for another minute. Transfer the onion mixture to the bowl of chicken. Mix with a wooden spoon. Add the breadcrumbs, egg and soy sauce, if using. Mix with a wooden spoon. (This is definitely a fun task for younger children, as the mixture is squishy and can't be over-mixed.) Stir in the cayenne pepper, if using. In the palm of your hands, roll a tablespoon of mixture into a golf-sized ball. (The balls can range in size, depending on the size of your hands. A combination of sizes can also make a more interesting plate!) Place on a plate, then repeat with the remaining balls. Preheat the oven to 180C (350F). Heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the chicken balls and turn continuously for 10 minutes, until golden. Transfer to a baking dish. Pour the teriyaki sauce over the chicken balls and roll them in the sauce until the balls are evenly coated. Add any remaining sauce. Bake for 10 minutes, until glossy and cooked through. Recipes and images excerpted from Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children ©2025 by Rose Carrarini with Marissa-Catherine Carrarini. Photography ©2025 by Anne-Claire Héraud. Reproduced by permission of Phaidon. All rights reserved. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our cookbook and recipe newsletter, Cook This, here .


Vogue
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
In a New Volume Out This Fall, Annie Leibovitz Revisits Her Women
'This project was never done,' Annie Leibovitz once said of Women, the landmark book of portraits she created in 1999 with her late partner, Susan Sontag. Speaking to The New York Times nearly two decades later, Leibovitz made clear that the project—then touring the globe as an exhibition—wasn't meant to be finite. 'It's not one of those projects that will ever have an ending.' Making good on that concept, this November, 25 years after its original publication, Women is returning in a new slipcased edition: a two-volume set from Phaidon pairing the original book with an entirely new companion volume of portraits made between 2000 and the present. Together, they offer a sweeping meditation on femininity, power, vulnerability, and the visual vocabulary we use to define all three. Left: Susan Sontag; Right: A showgirl Photo: Courtesy of Phaidon The original Women was a deeply personal endeavor—not only due to Sontag's involvement (she penned the incisive essay that accompanied the imagery), but also because of the reverence with which Leibovitz approached her subjects. The portraits of Louise Bourgeois, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Eileen Collins weren't simply about visibility—they were about legacy. Sontag's text, first excerpted in Vogue in 1999, interrogated the very idea of a book of women's portraits, positing that no such effort for men would be received in the same way. 'But then a book of photographs of men would not be undertaken in the same spirit,' she noted. 'Each of these pictures must stand on its own. But the ensemble says, so this is what women are now.'


Washington Post
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
A treasure trove of new books to read during Pride Month
The dazzling variety of current and upcoming books on LGBTQ themes is a reassuring reminder of how far we've come. This year, fans of queer romance can read books set in the worlds of Formula 1 ('Crash Test'), clandestine Victorian clubs ('To Sketch a Scandal') and Italian restaurants ('Pasta Girls'). In July, Phaidon is publishing a lavish survey of global queer art as a companion piece to Jonathan D. Katz's Chicago exhibition 'The First Homosexuals,' while the queer Korean vampire murder mystery 'The Midnight Shift,' by Cheon Seon-Ran, will draw first blood in August. Joe Westmoreland's autofiction classic 'Tramps Like Us,' a sort of gay(er) 'On the Road' first published in 2001, is being reissued. Alison Bechdel is back. There are two new studies, one by Daniel Brook and another by Brandy Schillace, of the groundbreaking LGBTQ advocate and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, whose books were burned by the Nazis. Phil Melanson's entertaining historical fiction debut, 'Florenzer,' imagines the early life and same-sex longings of Leonardo da Vinci against the backdrop of a conflict between the Medici family and the Vatican. The novel, which owes a debt to Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' trilogy in the detail and immediacy of its telling, feels freshly contemporary in its papal intrigue and plutocratic power battles. These books — and those I discuss at greater length below — are variously warm, comic, sad, jubilant, curious, violent and erotic. Each has insights of its own to offer, but they're united by their awareness of the continuing vulnerability of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people. 'Gaysians,' which is 'Flamer' author Mike Curato's first graphic novel for adults, doesn't shy away from violence, racism and transphobia, outside the community or within it. The colors of the trans flag give the book its dominant palette, working especially well for its many nightclub scenes. The story, about a group of young Asian Americans living in Seattle in 2003, is most powerful when Curato unleashes his more expressionistic side to capture different characters' traumatic flashbacks and glimpses of historical tragedy. But this darkness is offset by the story's cozy, reassuring focus on friendship and found family. Some may find Curato leaning too heavily on sentimentality — his 'gaysians' give themselves the cutesy name 'The Boy Luck Club,' riffing on Amy Tan's novel 'The Joy Luck Club,' and speak mostly in catty clichés, as if auditioning for 'Drag Race.' For me, this mawkish tendency stunted the book's emotional range. One of the most curious books of the season comes from 'the emerging field of queer ecology.' In 'Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature,' Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian makes a powerful case for trying to understand nature without the artificial binaries and hierarchies of human societies. Though she is, by training, a mycologist — a fungi specialist — she embraces all life forms, a disposition derived from her understanding of diversity being nature's 'very premise.' Sometimes this embrace borders on the erotic; one might well blush reading how, 'turgid with spring rains, mushrooms carefully arrange themselves into fruiting bodies, poking up through the soil to disperse their spores.' True to its nonbinary ethos, the book is really many things: an account of growing up in New York's Hudson Valley surrounded by snakes and slugs; a survivor's memoir about the path to healing following a childhood sexual assault; a story about growing to love one's own 'ambiguous,' 'amorphous,' 'amphibious' nature. It can sometimes feel a bit more like a manifesto than a work of science — 'How we treat swamps is an indicator of our societal health' is a typical assertion — but the radical-green politics are all part of the book's charm. And while Kaishian's inclination to romanticism occasionally threatens to undermine her mission as a scientist, as it does when she claims she'd prefer the mysteries of eel reproduction to remain outside human knowledge, it's nevertheless a fascinating book that celebrates difference in unexpected ways. I certainly know more about snail sexuality than I did before I opened it. One of the summer's most hotly anticipated titles is 'Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told.' Jeremy Atherton Lin's follow-up to 'Gay Bar,' for which he won a National Book Critics Circle Award, is a strong cocktail of memoir, legal history and sociology. He proceeds along parallel tracks to tell the romantic (and very horny) story of his relationship with a British man he met in 1996 and the jagged path taken by American and British legislatures and courts to eventually grant basic rights to people in same-sex relationships. 'We were aliens in each other's countries,' he writes, 'because in our own we remained second-class citizens.' Lin beautifully captures the Bay Area at the turn of the millennium: the creeping gentrification, the tech bros, the video shops, the aging hippies. He's also not shy in his descriptions of sex of many kinds and configurations, with all the attendant sensations. (At times you can almost smell it.) The liberated familiarity of these scenes in our less-prudish age makes it a little jarring when Lin reminds us of the difference a couple of decades make. 'By the year 2000,' he writes, 'when we rented our first weird, damp apartment, eighteen states still had sodomy laws on the books.' He and his boyfriend — who overstayed his visa by years to remain with Lin in California — dreaded immigration authorities so much that they became 'convinced you couldn't go to a hospital without being deported.' The metaphysical impact on Lin's boyfriend, who is addressed throughout in the second person, was drastic: 'I think after years without legal status, you sometimes considered yourself to be insubstantial.' Reading Lori Ostlund's excellent new short-story collection, 'Are You Happy?,' I found myself reflecting indignantly on the subtitle Lin chose for 'Deep House.' Surely laying claim to being the gayest love story ever told — or the gayest anything, however flippantly — risks devaluing that which isn't quite so … overt? Promiscuous? Coastal? Male? Though Ostlund's stories dwell less on heady sex and front-line politics, other hallmarks of the LGBTQ experience are everywhere present. Her protagonists have parents who never accepted them and colleagues they never told about their significant others. They sleep with their partners in the basement on separate couches when visiting home. Ostlund's stories may be less graphic than Lin's memoir, but there's nothing less gay about them. Besides, the lesbian couple that runs a furniture store named after Jane Bowles's 'Two Serious Ladies' could hardly be gayer — that's a pretty sapphic bit of branding. Don't let 'Are You Happy?' pass you by: There's not a word out of place in these brilliant Midwestern sketches. They're lonesome, for sure: Family members greet each other from a distance, 'like two people on opposite banks of a fast-flowing river.' But they're also hilarious. 'How is it possible,' one character wonders, 'for a family to have two stories about eating glass?' Also set a little further from the madding crowd is Seán Hewitt's first novel, 'Open, Heaven,' which takes place largely in a 'foggy northern village' in England. It's all a bit reminiscent of the film 'God's Own Country' — in rural Thornmere, to be gay is to be lonely and furtive — though with more longing and less flesh. As in Lin's 'Deep House,' we're reminded of how recently the culture has shifted toward tolerance. When James, our sensitive, stammering hero, comes out in 2002, Britain is still a year away from repealing Section 28, a sliver of legislation that effectively quashed discussion of sexuality in England's schools, and he is left feeling like a stranger in the only home he's ever known. While delivering milk bottles one morning before school, he meets Luke, a boy lodging with his aunt and uncle while his dad is in prison. Before long the strong-jawed Luke is all James can think about — but does Luke feel the same way? The book's appeal may depend on its readers' willingness to take adolescent romantic longing as seriously as we do when we're young. It succeeds because Hewitt knows when to stop — he casts a spell, like first love, that he knows can't last forever. Or can it? Throughout this short book, Hewitt muses on the passage of time, the way 'the years spin like this all of a sudden,' and considers how easy it might be for time to fold in on itself and the world to revert to an earlier state, taking us with it. The consequences of such a regression for our narrator, and for us all, are potentially dire. We have plenty of regressions to worry about outside of fiction, not least from the Supreme Court, which hinted only last year that it may be willing to revisit marriage equality. Progress in immigration reform also appears vulnerable: Lin, who finished 'Deep House' before January, has observed of the crackdown under Trump that 'our paranoia has become the reality.' Yet there is some consolation to be found, amid all this, in the humor, hope and humanity in the stories still being told. Charles Arrowsmith is based in New York and writes about books, films and music.


Business Mayor
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
ulises studio's digital images stage hypnotic procession of golf carts tracing invisible lines
Curious Conformity, the latest digital work by Ulises studio, meditates on repetition, order, and quiet resistance. The studio presents a series of looping digital images and videos where white golf carts glide across saturated green fields in perfect, hypnotic formation. Empty of drivers, the vehicles trace silent trajectories in line, a surreal ballet of repetition and quiet coordination that evokes both harmony and unease. The work continues Ulises' exploration of surreal minimalism and speculative worlds, inviting viewers to question the systems we follow and the illusions we live inside. Rendered with the studio's signature digital aesthetic, Curious Conformity places movement at the center of its conceptual inquiry, not as freedom, but as habit. The perfectly looping motions mimic rituals we perform without noticing, drawing attention to the tension between aesthetic satisfaction and philosophical disquiet. all images by Ulises studio Curious Conformity reflects on structures of routine The project reflects on deeper structures of routine and alignment, through a guiding statement that serves as its philosophical core: 'In the garden of order, not all harmony is freedom. We follow lines drawn long before us, mistaking movement for meaning. But the perfect path rarely asks questions. Let the loop unsettle you. Let the pattern reveal its silence,' add the designers. Ulises frames the work as a meditation on conformity, not as oppression, but as seduction. In the world of Curious Conformity, the loop is beautiful, the alignment comforting. And yet, beneath the surface, a question lingers: who drew these lines? Why do we follow? With no clear beginning or end, the fields in Curious Conformity become symbolic landscapes of obedience, scenes where progress dissolves into pattern, and calmness conceals control. Drawing from speculative design and digital animation, Ulises studio blurs the lines between visual pleasure and conceptual tension, crafting a work that is as charming as it is quietly subversive. Read More Phaidon's Forthcoming "Mid-Century Modern Designers" Book white golf carts glide in perfect formation across green fields the vehicles move without drivers, tracing silent, looping paths a surreal ballet of repetition and alignment unfolds loops repeat endlessly, inviting deeper reflection READ SOURCE


Forbes
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Phaidon ‘Defining Style' Book Offers Singular Look Into An Array Of Interior Possibilities
Pop art, street art, recurring curious characters and motifs, and a blend of traditional Japanese art and contemporary pop culture and anime, co-exist in a colorful array of hundreds of collectible figures. The playful cast — created by artists such as Kenny Scharf, Ron English, Matt Gondek, KAWS, and Takashi Murakami — is carefully curated and displayed on shelves or mischievously placed on an eclectic selection of sofas, chairs, and rugs, that delight our inner art-loving child. Mixed-media artist Móyòsóré 'Moyo' Martins invites us into his 3,00-plus-square-foot studio in Mott Haven, Queens, replete with framed prints and his own inimitable large-scale paintings that convey complex narratives that look to his family's legacy in his native Lagos, Nigeria, his ongoing artistic journey which has taken him to world-leading auction houses and European galleries, and the future of art and humanity. 'The figures are representations of childhood and evoke nostalgic memories,' says Martins. Martins' inimitable inside peek is among 150 residential interiors from leading designers and artists around the world featured in Defining Style: The Book of Interior Design, a tour through 25 design styles. The 296-page hardback book with 260 illustrations published by Phaidon is available for $69.95. For design geeks and folks who enjoy creative interiors and seek to learn more, this book chronicles a wide range of styles from modernist and minimalist to biophilic (which strives to bring the outdoors into homes, creating a sense of harmony between the built environment and the natural world) and textured (utilizing various textures to evoke different moods). Organized alphabetically by style, Defining Style showcases rooms from designers such as Pamela Shamshiri, Lorenzo Castillo, Laura Gonzalez, and Vincenzo De Cotiis, and welcomes us into the homes of musicians Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats, artist Mariko Mori, and writer Umberto Pasti, revealing how personality and tastes can influence personal space. Author Joan Barzilay Freund opens each chapter with introductory text describing characteristics of each style, empowering readers to identify and implement featured design elements in their homes. 'Wow, it's just so amazing to be in a room with all of you. I've been writing about you, and you've sprung to life right here. So it's really exciting. I want to start by thanking Alex and Michael Schuman. I can't think of a more beautiful place to celebrate design and style and art and beauty and these lovely rooms. So we are here to talk about defining style. The room above us is featured in the book. … and it really does encapsulate the kind of magic that happens when a designer, in this case, Jeffrey Bilhuber, meets the public clients, Alex and Michael, who are the most discerning people, and just something beautiful happens,' Freund said at a March 5 launch event at the Moroccan-flared New York townhouse of Alexandra and Michael Shuman, co-sponsored by Phaidon, online luxury marketplace 1stDibs, and fine art management services company UOVO. 'So thank you to all the designers and photographers and artists who are here tonight. Thank you for contributing your work. This is about you. This is your book. This is very much your moment.' 'This book offers an antidote to that more passive way of looking and offers an opportunity for context,' Asad Skyrett, former editor-in-chief of Elle Decor writes in the introduction. 'Under the direction of a gifted designer, a room's decor speaks its intention clearly.' The book's textural paper cover, replete with a debossed foil type and a color wheel referencing a particular color assigned to each style within the book, underscores the goal of informing and engaging and informing readers. Take a dose of maximalism on 1980s steroids with architect and designer Sig Bergamin, whose brazen Brazilian style that's true to his mantra, 'mix, mix, mix,' color, pattern, and provenance. Or indulge in the dreamy elegance of London-based multidisciplinary artist Faye Toogood's collector's flat, engaging with her with exploration of materiality and experimentation. Whether it's inspired by one design spread, or an amalgam of many, you'll find your style with Phaidon. Rising Master-Painter Móyòsóré Martins Takes Europe By Storm With Concurrent Exhibitions In Geneva And ParisMóyòsóré Martins Solo Show Celebrates A 'Better Painter Than Basquiat', Renowned Art Expert Declares