Culture Lounge by ASSOULINE

In this episode of the Beyond the Cover, Alex Assouline sits down with Marylin Fitoussi, the Emily in Paris costume designer, proclaims: “Books are the best accessories ever. So, less selfies and more books.”
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In this episode of the Culture Lounge podcast, we continue Savoir-Faire, our series devoted to the rarest of arts: knowing exactly what to do, and doing it with intention. 
To mark the release of Basquiat: The World of Jean-Michel, Alex, Martine, and Prosper Assouline sit down to trace the two-year journey behind what they set out to make the definitive volume on one of the most consequential artists of the twentieth century. The conversation moves through the decisions that give the book its singular weight: a cover born from nearly fifty tests of color, texture, and proportion until the iconic crown sat exactly right. "When we decided to do this book, I wanted to have a feeling of having a piece of Basquiat at home.” 
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In this episode of the Culture Lounge podcast, we introduce Savoir-Faire, a new series devoted to the rarest of arts: knowing exactly what to do, and doing it with intention. To open the series, Alex Assouline sits down with Martine and Prosper Assouline around a title that is, in every sense, a masterwork: Venice: La Serenissima. A portrait of the world's most alluring city, and an object worthy of it.

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In this episode of the Culture Lounge podcast interior designer Miles Redd and Editorial Director of ELLE Decor and Editor-in-Chief of Town & Country Stellene Volandes come together for a conversation as layered and considered as the rooms that inspire it. They trace the winding paths that shaped their careers, step inside the world of auction houses, and reflect on the objects we choose to live with, and why we choose them. Along the way, they indulge in a spirited fantasy: the legendary jewelry collections they would most love to call their own.

There are conversations that inform. And then there are conversations that transform. Season Two of The Culture Lounge Podcast opens with the latter. Returning with a new series called The Decisive Moment, listeners are invited into something rarer than a typical interview: a genuine reckoning. Host Alex Assouline sits down with the visionaries who have shaped culture, art, and ideas, and asks the question that cuts beneath biography and achievement. 
The series opens with Martine Assouline, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Assouline, in a conversation as intimate as it is illuminating. Guided by instinct and a lifelong devotion to beauty, Martine reflects on the photography book that first ignited her ambition to become a publisher, the discipline required to capture the soul of a place rather than simply document it, and the painstaking, deeply personal process of designing each travel book cover by hand.
Tune in to our next episode on April 17.