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Pastry Paris is a collection of photographs of some of the world’s most enticing pastries against the background of one of the world’s most iconic cities. The pastries are taken out of their display cases and photographed ‘on location’ at Paris’ best-known sights and everyday streetscapes, illuminating the visual and cultural connections between the city, its architecture, its culture, and its wildly beautiful desserts.
Paris has always been the stage set for the American fantasy of escape and indulgence, a place to banish the routine, the discipline of everyday life, the inner voice that says “I really shouldn’t eat/buy/drink/have that.” Thomas Jefferson wrote that “pleasure is the business of Paris,” and chief among its pleasures are its desserts.
The quirky, often humorous pairings of desserts and their hometown is a vicarious trip to that delicious city, where art and beauty can be found in everything from doorknobs to petit fours, a city that takes its desserts as seriously as its music, sculpture, and painting.
Each pastry is captioned with a description of the ingredients and a historical, culinary or cultural anecdote about its origin.
At the back of the book is a guide to the patisseries where each of the pastries is created, with addresses and phone numbers.
Susan Hochbaum is a nationally recognized graphic designer who has co-authored and designed books on photography and visual culture. Her most recent, Black and White, is a visual compendium and graphic essay of all things black-and-white, from penguins to nuns’ habits and skeletons to 8-balls. Other books she has designed include HiFis & HiBalls, A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave, and Neal Slavin’s Britons.
Susan has held positions as Associate Partner at Pentagram Design, New York, as Vice-President and Creative Director at a national retailer, and has run her New York based design consultancy since 1994. She has developed identity systems, promotional design, and packaging for clients such as The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, Estée Lauder, Elektra Entertainment, and Polo Ralph Lauren. Her work has won numerous design awards and has been recognized in national and international design publications.
7 x 7 inches, 140 pages
ISBN 978-1-892145-94-9
Retail price: $19.95
Price: $13.97 (30% off)
"A coffee table confection." T, The New York Times Style Magazine