Heart & Love

Heart & LoveFrom Assoulines special series, the Icons Collection, a celebration of the art de vivre which puts to page exotic adventures, glamorous destinations, and fascinating characters in trademark Assouline style. With titles to transport readers to la dolce vita, this collection features bestselling tomes sharing locations, lifestyles, and inspiring movements spanning centuries. Press your thumbs together, bend the remaining fingers, and have them connect

From Assouline’s special series, the Icons Collection, a celebration of the art de vivre which puts to page exotic adventures, glamorous destinations, and fascinating characters in trademark Assouline style. With titles to transport readers to la dolce vita, this collection features bestselling tomes sharing locations, lifestyles, and inspiring movements spanning centuries.

Press your thumbs together, bend the remaining fingers, and have them connect at the fingernails. Slightly overlap your thumb and index finger. Combine the less-than symbol with the numeral 3. Draw a diamond, make a half circle on the top-left side, make another half circle on the top-right side. These various directions will all create the universal symbol of love, an anatomically inaccurate depiction of the heart that has come to represent the center (or heart) of emotion, intuition, sincerity: heartbroken, follow your heart, cross my heart. In the body, a functioning heart is essential to being alive. Some poets and great writers might also argue that love is the sole purpose of life. Across cultures and religions, from science to artistic expression, the heart as symbol has been omnipresent for centuries, whether in ancient practices or pop-art creations.

True love, in all types of relationships, is something to believe in. The same sentiments showcased in the legendary fictional romances of film (think Jack and Rose, Westley and Buttercup, Noah and Allie) can be found in real-life examples (Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, JAY-Z and Beyoncé). Love is an endless fountain of inspiration and has perhaps been the greatest source of creative expression in history, whether in fashion (Moschino, Saint Laurent), art (Klimt, Leonardo, Koons), or poetry (E. E. Cummings, Pablo Neruda). While love the feeling may not be a tangible, visible thing, the pages of Heart & Love come the closest to capturing this ever-elusive, all encompassing, life-changing, often fickle, most important, world-consuming emotion.

About the Brand

Assouline Publishing was founded as a family company in 1994 by Proper and Martine Assouline. It has published approximately 1500 titles on subjects ranging from architecture, art, design, fashion, lifestyle, and travel and has brought the illustrated book market to life with products that are modern, luxurious, and creative.

Created with the goal of becoming the first luxury brand on culture, Assouline aims to supply everything needed for a contemporary library. An active contributor to the growth of the illustrated market and its integration into the worlds of luxury, fashion, and design, Assouline provides the highest quality book-objects, sharing a distinctive graphic identity and editorial savoir-faire that have captured imaginations while addressing new themes in a contemporary manner. With its style and vision, the brand is a true pioneer.

Product Details

Released in January 2025

Author: Pierre Berville
Publisher: Assouline Publishing Corporation
Edition: English
Book Details: 192 pages, over 200 illustrations
Material: Hardcover
Dimensions: (L 28 x W 19 x D 3) cm
Weight: 1 kg