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World Hotels - Poolside with Slim Aarons
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List Price: $75.00
Our Price: $30.00
Your Save: $ 45.00 ( 60% )
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Manufacturer: Abrams Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2
EAN: 9780810994072
ISBN: 0810994070
Label: Abrams Books
Manufacturer: Abrams Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Abrams Books
Studio: Abrams Books
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 them—magnificent, 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 Who’s Who of society, aristocracy, and celebrity—although C. Z. Guest, Lilly Pulitzer, Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard, and many who have appeared in the previous books are here—as 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 Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties.
From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury, and grandeur prevail.
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Summary: perfect condition
Comment: The book is brand stinking new and PERFECTLY PERFECT! Gorgeous - thank you!
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Summary: Good, but not great Slim Aarons volume
Comment: I have all the other Slim Aarons pictorials and they are great. This volume is good, but many of the photos are extras not used in the other volumes. Also, there are very few celebrities represented here. Lastly, there is some odd focus on Mexico and the French and Italian Rivieras and much less on the wonderful pools and communities in the US, like Palm Beach (barely featured), Fort Lauderdale, Laguna Beach/Niguel, La Jolla, Malibu, and so many, many more. I got a good price so it's a decent addition, but definitely not as great in terms of print quality and content. You can tell right away that the photo repro quality is much poorer: when it sits beside the other volumes on your coffeee table, the colors in the cover photos don't pop like the others, rather, appearing in a slight haze.
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Summary: poolside fun
Comment: fun book with loads of great shots. Has shots of my hometown even making it tastier to me.
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Summary: Very disappointed
Comment: I waited for this book and it finally went on sale, but what a disappointment it was. It is just big pictures. I thought there would be more of a story with each picture, but nothing. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: A peek into the jet-set pool set
Comment: A superb coffee-table photo book that should be in every home that can boast an in-ground swimming pool. While the images show American and European jetsetters at poolside during the 1950s to the 1990s, it does inspire us slugs in the middle class to work to achieve that oh-so ethereal (in-ground) swimming-pool lifestyle that typifies having "made it" in the modern age. Pour yourself a martini and then sit by the pool as you enjoy this book. You don't have to just dream it. Go ahead--live it. Just ask the late actor Burt Lancaster's character in the 1968 film "The Swimmer". Then you, too, can swim home.
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