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From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, the photographs featured in the extravagant Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury, and grandeur prevail. Introduction by William Norwich, fashion and interior design editor, Phaidon Press Like its predecessors, Once Upon a Time and A Place in the Sun, Poolside with Slim Aarons offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. Yet this new collection of stunning photographs of the rich and well-connected doing attractive things in their favorite playgrounds has a new twist. The main character is pools, and everything that goes with themmagnificent, suntanned bodies; well-oiled skin; bikini-clad women; yachts; summer cocktails; sumptuous buffets; spectacular locations; and most of all: fun. Poolside is not so much a Whos Who of society, aristocracy, and celebrityalthough C. Z. Guest, Lilly Pulitzer, Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard, and many who have appeared in the previous books are hereas it is about leisure time and how the rich make use of it. This is a more intimate peek into very private lives, to which photographer Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties. Also available from Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons:Women Slim Aarons:Once Upon a Time Slim Aarons:A Place in the Sun Slim Aarons:La Dolce Vita
From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, the photographs featured in the extravagant Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury, and grandeur prevail.
Introduction by William Norwich, fashion and interior design editor, Phaidon Press
Like its predecessors, Once Upon a Time and A Place in the Sun, Poolside with Slim Aarons offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. Yet this new collection of stunning photographs of the rich and well-connected doing attractive things in their favorite playgrounds has a new twist.
The main character is pools, and everything that goes with themmagnificent, suntanned bodies; well-oiled skin; bikini-clad women; yachts; summer cocktails; sumptuous buffets; spectacular locations; and most of all: fun. Poolside is not so much a Whos Who of society, aristocracy, and celebrityalthough C. Z. Guest, Lilly Pulitzer, Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard, and many who have appeared in the previous books are hereas it is about leisure time and how the rich make use of it. This is a more intimate peek into very private lives, to which photographer Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties.
Also available from Slim Aarons:
Slim Aarons:Women
Slim Aarons:Once Upon a Time
Slim Aarons:A Place in the Sun
Slim Aarons:La Dolce Vita