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The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Berge

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In this lavish volume, enjoy detailed views of the eight splendid homes Yves Saint Laurent shared with friend, former lover, and lifelong business partner Pierre Bergé. Notoriously shy, the designer lived in luxury with Bergé, and Ivan Terestchenko’s photographs capture their exquisite surroundings in full. Nineteenth-century French décor, important paintings by Picasso, Matisse, and other modern and Romantic artists, and masterpieces of furniture, sculpture, and silver ranging from the Renaissance to the Art Deco era—all are beautifully showcased in this book. From the serene interiors of their apartment on the Rue Babylone, Paris, to the incandescent beauty of the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech, Bergé and Saint Laurent’s sensibilities come alive. The homes presented here have all been sold, with their contents auctioned to benefit HIV/AIDS research, but The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé preserves their memory. This coffee table book is a beautiful testament to a rare union of passion, elegance, and supreme connoisseurship. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vendome Press


Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2009


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 280 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865652511


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 14


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.85 pounds


Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 1.25 x 12.25 inches


Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up


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    • Very Inspiring
This book is fabulous! The cost of the book is a little steep, so I always preview before I purchase. It is simply stunning and it eludes to the lifestyle that can be afforded by someone with unlimited resources. It is great for inspiration and dreams.The photographs are beautiful and the verbage is amazing. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2011 by Tai I. Rivera
    • Very Beautiful Book
A selection of decors, mainly by Jacques Grange, that illustrate the sophistication of the houses shared by Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Berge. This is about as "high end" decor as you can get. However, several of the places are quite simple yet brilliantly furnished with a kind of taste rarely seen elsewhere. In a some of the homes or apartments simple objects and rare treasures are mixed together, but in an unpretentious manner. In others, extreme opulence is the key. However the workmanship of everything is the best that can be had anywhere. This is what places look like when money is no object. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2009 by Roy A. Chefets
    • OMG!
Like a time machine to a place and a time were standards where the norm. Where beauty and harmony were not bad words. Everything pleases and inspires. So sad it was sold in auctions but the book remains as a record of such a treasure trove.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2014 by Jose F. Santiago-llorens
    • Extraordinary book. Beautiful, sumptuous, rich photos and text.
As a collector of both fashion and interior design books, this book looked interesting (despite the cover). But, it exceeded my expectations: it's a visual feast. I was hoping for wonderful, inspirational photos, and it is a treasure trove. If you followed the YSL auction, this is an exhaustive look at their homes, antiques, collections in their proper context. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012 by Haskell
    • sumptuous settings and photos largely offset inadequate text and editing
Given the material that is covered by "The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge," a reader might have expected this book to be one of the most fascinating interior design volumes issued in decades, and in this regard it does not disappoint. Indeed, the richly-layered environments and richly-enjoyed lifestyles crafted by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge compel one to delve into the book over and over again. "The Private World" is divided into eight chapters. The first is a 12-page analytical essay on the philosophy that guided Saint Laurent's and Berge's residential designs, while the remaining seven are each devoted singly to three homes in Paris, a work studio in Paris, a seaside house in France, and two homes in North Africa. These seven establishments are generously dealt with by photographs that cover exterior and interior spaces, full-room sweeps and focused close-ups of individual objects. Some of the seven locations and specific rooms have appeared previously in design magazines and other books. Still, the sum of the images offered here is stunning in revealing the care and resources that Saint Laurent and Berge devoted to collecting, decorating, and simply creating extraordinary backdrops for their lives and dreams. Overall then, it is fair to say that the book is an ode to the wondrous extremes to which a cultivated French taste for antiquities, modern art, and even adapted stage settings can go. What limited text is offered in this otherwise ambitious book sets the scene for understanding what inspired Saint Laurent's and Berge's tastes and sensibilities, but one wishes for so much more. This desire for additional material is most strongly felt in looking at the individual residences, especially the villa at the seaside resort of Deauville. Here, for example, I longed for a great deal more information regarding the influence of Marcel Proust on the main house and Leon Bakst on the dacha. (That material is better handled, in fact, in the two chapters that Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery devotes to the Deauville property in her "French Interiors: The Art of Elegance.") One wishes too that the publishers of "The Private World" had taken the time to eliminate the many typographical, grammatical, and syntactical errors found throughout the book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2009 by Merrily Baird
    • A true gem of interior decoration
This is the gem of the interior decoration dreams. How on earth can a human brain encompass all this elborate taste and know-how in building homes not museums ? I was astounded from the first time I let my fingers walk through this artful masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2013 by Stefan Herseus
    • Wonderful insight to a wonderful couple!
This book is a brilliant look into the clandestine life of a power couple and a glimpse of their countless collections spanning many decades'. It is obvious that the life they shared was filled with class, elegance, and above all love!
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2011 by David
    • Yves St. Laurant opulent world
Yves St. Laurant not only designed some of the most magnificent clothing in the world, but what an opulent life he and Pierre shared. The photography showcasing the magnificent collections of these two is superb. They truly had quite an eye for many treasures in the world.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2009 by R. K. Spangler-vellios

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