Although it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, stores are fervently blasting Christmas tunes to get shoppers in the mood. I prefer to do my shopping online, with my sound shut off. Between intrusive tunes and the disappearance of brick and mortar bookstores, I thought it would be helpful to start featuring the best design-related coffee table books that have been published recently. While I’m anti-paper in most aspects of my life, I still adore a glossy book. This one makes a beautiful holiday gift.
Oberto Gill: Home Sweet Home, Rizzoli, October 2011
Oberto Gill: Home Sweet Home showcases “sumptuous and bohemian interiors” shot by Oberto Gilli throughout his career. (His work has appeared in House & Garden, Town & Country, Vogue.) There are photos of more than 40 homes shown in full, from New York City penthouses and artist lofts to seventeenth-century Italian villas and country homes in Morocco. Here is a sampling:
Decorator Muriel Brandolini’s first apartment in New York, 1992
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Oberto Gili’s home in Piedmont, Italy, 2010
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Oberto Gili’s home in Piedmont, Italy, 2010
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Artist and photographer Andres Serrano, New York City, 2000
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Artist Ellsworth Kelly’s studio in Spencertown, New York, 1996
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Vineyard owners Laura di Collobiano & Moreno Petrini’s 16th century abode in Tuscany, 2007
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Oberto Gili’s home in Piedmont, Italy, 2010
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Paola Igliori (poet, photographer, writer, filmmaker), Villa Lina, Lazio, Italy, 2008
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Oberto Gili’s home in Piedmont, Italy, 2010
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Landscape architect Paolo Pejrone’s home in Italy, 2010
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Artist Anish Kapoor’s house, Notting HIll Gate, London, 1998
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Gallery owner John Cheim’s loft in New York City, 1989
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Oberto Gili’s home in Piedmont, Italy, 2010
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Isabella Rosselini’s barn in Bellport, Long Island, 2010
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Oberto Gili’s studio in Piedmont, Italy, 2010
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For more about the man, I recommend New York Social Diary’s fantastic tour of Gilli’s brownstone in the West Village.
