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The Lives of Others: Sublime Interiors of Extraordinary People Hardcover – September 8, 2020

by Simon Watson (Author), Marella Caracciolo Chia (Contributor), Tom Delavan (Contributor),
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A privileged invitation into a world of beauty--from a seventeenth-century Italian palace and retreats in the Swiss Alps and Morocco to artists' studios and noble residences in Austria and Spain. Simon Watson takes the reader into highly personal environments that reveal the creativity and personality of their esteemed inhabitants.

Since the 1990s, Watson has been one of the most prolific chroniclers of remarkable interiors and portraits, gracing the pages of W magazine, Vanity Fair, AD, and T Magazine. From hard-edged modernity and historical exoticism to pure classicism, the photographer has documented rooms of note in cities, atop mountains, and by the sea.

Complementing his masterful images, Watson gives an intimate description of each location. On this journey with the photographer, one experiences the Duchess of Alba's Palacio Liria in Madrid, filled with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masterpieces; interior designer Roberto Peregalli's splendid riad in Tangier; the magnificent and vast Castello Gardena in the Italian Alps owned by the Franchetti clan; Guinness
heir Garech de Brun's hillside retreat in County Wicklow, Ireland; the Renaissance Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne in Rome, designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi in the sixteenth century; shoe designer Christian Louboutin's fanciful Parisian apartment; and many other splendid places around the world.
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    September 8, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    10.31 x 1.74 x 13 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0847869008
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"The photographer Simon Watson has long trained his lenses on interiors. He is a master of capturing the personalities of homeowners through his atmospheric photography. In his book The Lives of Others, he takes us on a journey to homes in Italy, Austria, Spain, Morocco, Ireland and France. Homes that have history and a sense of place, which he captures ever so magnificently with his poetic eye for composition and lighting." — FORBES.COM

"The chicest person on your list who is sad about not being able to travel should receive The Lives of Others: Sublime Interiors of Extraordinary People by photographer Simon Watson."
— HABITUALLY CHIC

"Travel the world with photographer Simon Watson as he visits exquisite homes from Switzerland to Morocco—all with inhabitants as interesting as their decor. No passport required." —HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

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Simon Watson, a native of Dublin, is one of the leading interiors photographers of today. His work appears in notable fashion, travel, and interiors publications. Marella Caracciolo Chia is a design journalist for several industry publications. Tom Delavan is the design/interiors director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. James Reginato is writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and a contributing editor of Sotheby's Magazine.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli (September 8, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847869008
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847869008
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.31 x 1.74 x 13 inches
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G-Raf
5.0 out of 5 stars The book is a piece of art.
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2021
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The book itself is a piece of art. Beautiful stock paper with wonderful photos that let you take a peak into the past and lives of others.
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Leon Q Le
5.0 out of 5 stars STUNNING!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2021
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Absolutely stunning. And bonus point for the fact that the paper were matte and not glossy.
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Klementine
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful work of beautiful photographs. Hard to understand what is going on in these rooms.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
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Its a beautiful beautiful book of photos.
The photos are sublime, the mat paper of the best quality. The rooms are original, «undecorated » almost nature like in their composition, scale and colors. Well curated.
My problem is you can’t really see the rooms because its a book of “ tableaux’s ».
Photos meant to be beautiful in themselves and they are.
The lighting is so soft, subtle etc that its hard to comprehend what is going on in the rooms. If you want a book on interiors perhaps this is not for you.
To me, (just an opinion) this does not appear to be the focus of this book. If you want a book of sensitive and extraordinarily beautiful photographs of interesting, artistic interiors for the sake of beautiful photos in themselves; this is your book. One of the best out there I have seen.
If you want a book to learn about and train your eye to create what makes a room “sparkle or sing” and be a magical place to be, this is not your book. The information is not clear or complete enough in the photos to actually understand all the layers and complexities of each room.
I was expecting a book on “interior design “.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2020
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The photos are dark, the accompanying text too brief and not particularly illuminating.
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DC Book Angel
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful but incomplete
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2021
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The photographs are without question beautiful and very creative-- as Simon Watson's tend to be. Some of the rooms are equally so. Lovely to get a little bit of a feeling for the houses that are photographed, but they are missing enough context to make one feel disappointed. Not knowing who the people are in some of the houses, nor how they connect to the house is very odd-- why include them. Those parts make one feel like one is paying for someone else's family photo album in which only the family would recognize the people and the rooms. Better, more complete captions (even as end notes) would have made this book truly worth the cost.
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Brian Kearney
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply an amazing book beautifully published and is a joy to behold.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2022
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A Wonderful amazing book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply an amazing book beautifully published and is a joy to behold.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2022
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A M
1.0 out of 5 stars Foto buie e pochissimo testo
Reviewed in Italy on August 2, 2021
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Libro non di arredamento, le foto delle case si concentrano su particolari insignificanti e molte sono di paesaggi delle località in cui si trovano le case, Napoli o la montagna.
Molte foto sono buie e quasi in bianco/nero
Nessuna spiegazione sulle immagini ne alcuna indicazione sulla storia delle residenze o su chi ha curato L interior design
Mi spiace ma non lo consiglio!
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Walter Plante
1.0 out of 5 stars In der Tat enttäuschend
Reviewed in Germany on April 26, 2021
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Sorry, aber dieses Buch hat nichts mit Innenarchitektur zu tun. Es ist eine verwirrende Sammlung von Fotos, die überhaupt keinen Sinn ergeben oder eine Klarstellung von Personen oder Gegenständen enthalten.
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elodie kern
5.0 out of 5 stars Super parfait RAS
Reviewed in France on April 2, 2021
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Mela Mirella
2.0 out of 5 stars Enttäuschend!
Reviewed in Germany on August 3, 2021
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Das Buch hat mich nicht begeistert, leider enttäuschend... Der Titel hält nicht was man erwarten könnte!
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