Mykonos Muse - Assouline Coffee Table Book
Mykonos Muse - Assouline Coffee Table Book book cover

Mykonos Muse - Assouline Coffee Table Book

Hardcover – April 15, 2018

Price
$105.00
Format
Hardcover
Pages
300
Publisher
Assouline
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1614286905
Dimensions
9.75 x 1.5 x 12.75 inches
Weight
6.45 pounds

Description

About the Author Lizy Manola is a Greek photographer. A freelancer, her focus is on documentary photography. For more than fifteen years, she has traveled and shot in distant places, where culture and everyday life preserve their natural authenticity. She has published two books with Assouline, Certain Realities and Ethiopian Highlands. Her work has featured in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and worldwide. She lives and works in Athens and New York. Thirty years ago, she bought a house on Mykonos; she has spent endless summers holidays on the island ever since.Additional contributions by Rachel Howard and Michael Skafidas.

Features & Highlights

  • Located in the Cyclades and surrounded by the blue-green water of the Aegean sits whitewashed, windmill-strewn Mykonos, the island of the winds. This ancient island and those surrounding it, mythologized as the bodies of gods felled by Hercules in the time of antiquity, are older legend and have played host to countless cultures for more than millennia. This book chronicles the culture and society that has defined Mykonos as a predominant island utopia over the past century. With such names as ‘Paradise’ and ‘Super Paradise,’ the sands of these shores have captured the imaginations and hearts of industry titans, artists, and party-goers alike from all around the globe, marking it as a stable cosmopolitan destination and as a paramount it haven on the jet-set circuit.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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VISIT MYKONOS

Pretty book 4 pretty people with pretty big bank accounts who like pretty things & visiting pretty places. Fast Shipping! ;)
9 people found this helpful
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Magical Mykonos Perfection!

A fantastic tome to Mykonos. Been going since 1978 and this is THE book to buy. Well written and stunning images. Magical.
7 people found this helpful
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Pretty

Nice and interesting and colorful coffee table book.
2 people found this helpful
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Great coffee table book

Great photos and nostalgic storytelling. A lovely coffee table book
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Very Disappointing

I was really looking forward to this book, but I was truly disappointed. Mykonos is such a beautiful, unique place, but that sadly is not captured in these pages. The editing is odd...the few landscape photos are in a dreary black and white, while portraits that would be striking in black and white are in a garish color. Finally, this book appears to only represent a very finite time in the 70s for a specific subset of people, and does not have any of the richness of the island, food or culture. Honestly, the best thing about this book is it’s beautiful cover, but it’s such a dud it didn’t even make the cut for my coffee table.
1 people found this helpful
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Damaged cover

Damages cover / cut
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Ideal Amazon experience!

Book arrived with bent binding from shipping. Seller sent replacement quickly and before receiving initial book back. Honest, good seller. Will shop here again and again! (Book is gorgeous/ great quality/ worth price!)
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Poor Binding Quality, content great.

I purchased the Mykonos Muse Table Book to use as our guest book for our wedding. Immediately, I loved the aesthetic. Unfortunately, I’m very disappointed in the quality. The book has been handled with care as it is a sentiment we excepted to last a lifetime. However, the page bindings have already started to rip away from the spine of the book. We’re just very disappointed with the quality and are unsure what can be done as our guests have already signed the book. I will attach pictures of the book as there has been no trauma or damage. Done from our perspective.
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Great Purchase

Beautiful book, worth the price. Matches perfectly with my decor. Love it!!!!
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Exquisite photos of Greece

Beautifully done Book.