Alisa Carroll

Since founding San Francisco design gallery De Sousa Hughes in 1999,  Geoffrey De Sousa and Erik Hughes have sought out the most original makers of their day. For two decades, they have crossed America and Europe to seek out artisans defining a new generation of craftsmanship: the woodworkers, glassblowers, hand printers, bronze casters, textile weavers, and ceramicists who are breathing new life into ancient processes. In the Making, their first book, pays homage to the talents driving the 21st-century maker movement. 

The exquisitely crafted, 275-page book features hundreds of superb photographs, 36 inspiring stories, and commissioned illustrations. The book is itself a tactile object, unfolding in sensual papers, thoughtful typography, and a hand-embossed cover.  In its pages, artisans share the hugely varied stories of their origins, struggles, and successes, all unified by risk, rigor, sweat, passion, and practice. Designers profiled range from globally recognized artisans like Christopher Farr, Timorous Beasties, and Jonathan Browning to local Bay Area makers Michael McEwen, Erin McGuiness, and Cliff Hersh. 

Masterful craft and storytelling bound together in one object, In the Making will inspire all those moved by the beauty and necessity of the handmade. 

ART HOUSE
The Collaboration of
Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton   
Assouline                                
Written by Alisa Carroll              
Foreword by Neal Benezra            
Photography by Matthew Millman   

One of the world’s leading art collectors, Chara Schreyer has built an historic collection of six hundred works, and her forty-year collaboration with interior designer Gary Hutton has produced five superb residences to house them. Art House is a narrative and visual tour of these spaces, which range from an architectural tour-de-force to a high-rise “gallery as home.” Informed by scholarship and a passion for the conceptual, the Schreyer collection spans all media and includes masterpieces by artists including Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Man Ray, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Eva Hesse, as well as work by contemporary artists including Gedi Sibony, Rachel Harrison, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, and many others. Art House features a rare and intimate look at hundreds of these works at home in spaces designed to be both intellectually and materially empathetic with them.

Pub Date: Fall 2016                                                        
$85, Hardcover with jacket                                            
10 x 13 inches / 25 x 33 cm                                            
220 pages, 150 illustrations                                            
SBN: 9781614285366