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Click cover for larger view
City Secrets Rome is an innovative guidebook that brings
together the responses of more than 200 experts who were asked
to write about their favorite sites, artwork, and entertainment
in Rome. Passionate and opinionated, the contributors include journalists,
restaurateurs, architects, historians, archaeologists, and writers.
They have chosen subjects both familiar and off-beat and have written
beautifully about their significance.
“Discovering a great painting is a thrill that is hard
to come by nowadays. Usually, the great paintings are thrown
at us, overpresented and overlit, but a few are somewhat hidden
in their original settings, awaiting discovery...”
—Frank Stella
So begins the artist’s narrative that leads the readers of City Secrets Rome to an overlooked masterpiece—and then goes on to explain why he finds it breathtaking. Stella’s response is only one of 500 contributions to the book that, taken together, amount to an exhilarating tour of Rome in the company of America’s cultural leaders.
City Secrets also features maps by area keyed to entries, icons indicating shops and restaurants, recommended reading, and a subtle “non-guidebook” cover.If a standard guidebook has never given you entrée to the Rome you seek, let City Secrets unlock the door. See the world’s most magnificent art, architecture, and antiquities through the eyes of the people who know them best. A unique compilation, City Secrets: Rome is the key to a new kind of travel.
Robert Kahn is an architect in private practice. His work has been
widely published. He has taught design, most recently at Yale University.
In 1981 he was awarded the prix de Rome by the American Academy
in Rome. He lives and works in New York.
Cloth,
302pp.
4.25” x 7.25”
ISBN 10: 1-892145-04-9
ISBN 13: 9781892145048
Retail price: $19.95
Price: $15.96 (20% off)
