Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections

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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons presents contemporary art from the private collections of Eli and Edythe Broad, which are among the most important in the world. Featuring works by 22 significant artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Cindy Sherman, this handsome volume addresses major movements such as American Neo-Dada and Pop, and German Neo-Expressionism, as well as art of the 1980s and current works from California.

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You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant is a collection of the 101 dumbest real federal, city, and state laws in America, compiled by Jeff Koon and Andy Powell, a couple of high school seniors with a Web site visited by hundreds of thousands of browsers every month. These laws will astonish, possibly outrage, and certainly amuse citizens everywhere.

Here you will learn that forgetting to close a gate is against the law in Nevada; that flying a kite is illegal in Schaumburg, Illinois; and that shaking carpets in the street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is strictly forbidden. You probably haven't tried cutting off your arm to make people feel sorry for you -- but if you live in Alabama, it is against the law. Many Texans will be surprised to learn that their hoes must be no less than four feet long. Perhaps more disturbingly, Indianans will be forced to recognize that being sexually aroused in public could get them arrested. With so many potential legal pitfalls around us all, it is comforting, finally, to learn in these pages that, in Alaska, the people who make laws have sagely concluded that emergencies are "held to a minimum and are rarely found to exist."

This hilarious compilation features forty-six original illustrations by award-winning artist Ward Schumaker that brilliantly capture the absurdity of so many of our laws with a light and elegant touch.

WARNING
These laws, all verified by the authors and presented along with a reference to the corresponding federal, state, or city statute, may cause readers to lose any desire to pursue a career in law.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2005-03-01

The authors have found a couple of really dumb laws, but most of the book features unusual scenarios that the authors create that are technically illegal. The title is an example of this. The law actually states that the fire hydrant should not be blocked by anything- so yes, it would be illegal to tie the alligator to the fire hydrant. But is that really a dumb law? Each page features one law and the authors comments. Not much substance to this book.

A Good Idea That Needs More Work.......2003-09-15

This is a book by two kids. It started off as a school project. The idea is to list laws that seem very strange, dumb or just plain off-the-wall. It could have been a good book but it needs a little more research.

Each page has a catchy phrase about some law. The title of the book is one such phrase. There is then some of the text of the law it refers to. Unfortunately, sometimes the blurb is actually the direct opposite of the law given. I found this to be really unforgivable in such a book. Very often I got the idea that the authors just didn't understand the language used in the laws and sometime I felt they never read them in the first place.

Still, there are some dumb laws that they did get right. But really, there should have been a lot more attention paid before this ever saw print.

Don't waste your time.......2003-07-05

Sorry guys, but this is the dumbest book I have read in a long time. I bought it thinking it would be good beach reading and, boy, was I wrong. Being eaten by seagulls would have been less painful than enduring this drivel. A little thought into this project would have proved helpful as many of the laws quoted were instituted for very good reasons such as the law regarding ice cubes in El Paso. Do you want to buy ice cubes that were produced across the border with their stellar health regulations. Most books of this type are quite entertaining, but not this one. It's just plain stupid.

Excellent Advice! Words to live by!.......2003-01-24

I thought I was doing the nice folks a favor when I tied my dog Snuckles to the fire hydrant while I went into the 7-ll for a slushy and a ding-dong. However to my horror, when I came out of the store I found an alligator swallowing my dog. He then got his head and teeth stuck around the leash. Before I could do anything a police officer came up to me and asked if that was my alligator tied to the fire hydrant. I told him that I had never seen that alligator before in my life. He then asked me if that was my leash and I told him it was. Unfortunately, just then a fire broke out across the street and the fire trucks soon arrived. However, the fireman couldn't get to the fire hydrant as a vicious alligator was guarding it. The whole building burnt down and I was arrested and charged for tying an alligator to a fire hydrant and blocking a fire hydrant that was needed during a fire resulting in thousands of dollars of damage.

While I was in court, even though I had argued that the alligator was not mine, it was proved by the prosecutors that it was mine since I had confessed to having my leash on it. In the end I was fined $500 dollars and sentenced to 100 hours of community service and forced to read this book.

Without a doubt, had I read this book before, I would not have had to read it now in humiliation after failing to take Jeff's advice. Had I known I could have lied about the leash being mine. Good advice Jeff but a little too late for me!

By the way, the alligator and I are now doing fine and I've adopted him as a pet. Poor Snuckles.

Wow.......2002-07-28

hilarious... worth buying and reading over and over again. see down for mirinda's review. it sums up my thoughts exactly.

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Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002
Jeff Koons
Manufacturer: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover

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Jeff Koons
Damien Hirst
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections
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Richard Prince

ASIN: 1891024612
Release Date: 2002-12-02

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The man who enshrined a Hoover vacuum cleaner, who suspended a basketball in a fish tank half filled with water, who created a life-size polychromed wooden replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles, who transferred his sex life with his then-wife, Italian porn star Ilona Staller (aka Cicciolina), onto canvas, and who made a monumental topiary sculpture in the shape of a puppy, is here given a mini-retrospective in the form of a book. Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 focuses primarily on the formation and development of Koons's paintings, but, given that he considers his early sculptures to be "three-dimensional paintings," this limit need hardly be considered medium-restrictive. Thomas Kellein's extended interview provides a walloping good tale told by the artist himself. In it, Koons remembers his childhood drawing lessons, his first sale (his father had a decorating business and showroom where he would display and sell his 11-year-old son's art), his experiences at art school, his courtship with ex-wife Cicciolina (they fell in love after he hired her to make his Made in Heaven series), and how the birth of his son inspired his Celebration series, all the while sharing his philosophies on art. Organized chronologically and with an extended biography and bibliography, Pictures presents each of the main works from Koons's painting series from 1980 to the present.

This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman

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Joyride

This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman , Jane Dickson , Peter Dreher , Stephen Ellis , Barbara Krueger , Laura Letinsky , Stephen Prina , Linder Sterling , Roni Horn , Silvia Kolbowski , Jeff Koons , Vik Muniz , Juan Munoz , Kiki Smith , Haim Steinbach , and Jessica Stockholder
Manufacturer: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
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Haunted Houses (High Risk)
No Lease on Life: A Novel
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Excitability: Selected Stories 1986-1996 (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

ASIN: 1891024469
Release Date: 2002-10-02

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In This Is Not It, Lynne Tillman's collection of 20 years' worth of important and compelling short stories and novellas, the protagonists seduce you into their lives and thoughts. Engaging, funny, elegant, and ironic, Tillman takes the reader to new heights of wit and meaning through staccato phrases, grammatical twists, and sensuous language. Familiar worlds of honesty, deceit, dark humor, pleasure, pain, confusion, dependence, love, and lust each play decisive roles in her believable fictions. In "Come and Go," three characters and an author collide. In "Pleasure Isn't A Pretty Picture," the reader is treated to a he/she meditation on the one-night stand. And "Dead Sleep" is truly an insomniac's worst nightmare. A twin act on a double bill, This Is Not It is a collection of innovative and stand-alone writing that also engages and matches wits with the some of the best contemporary art: work by Kiki Smith, Jane Dickson, Jessica Stockholder, Diller & Scofidio, Laura Letinsky, Peter Dreher, Roni Horn, Stephen Ellis, Juan Munoz, Vik Muniz, Silvia Kolbowski, Jeff Koons, James Welling, Aura Rosenberg, Barbara Ess, Barbara Kruger, Dolores Marat, Haim Steinbach, Gary Schneider, Marco Breuer, Stephen Prina, and Linder Sterling. Since 1982, acclaimed novelist Tillman has created these unique narratives that are a parallel universe to the contemporary art world. Maybe they're analogues or dialogues, maybe fictions inspired by art, maybe reflections, or meditations--but whatever they're called, like Borges's fictions, they are their own worlds, too. Tillman has marked out terrain of her own, which this collection celebrates. Full of life and art, This Is Not It is illuminating, bold, subtle, and riotous.

Customer Reviews:

Joyride.......2003-04-12

...through a unique vision of the world we're struggling to be in - through the alternation of worlds. A glimpse into the nature of things, situation, and people. Precise sentiments. Bold language. Innovative forms. Rewarding for young writers and readers who enjoy variety in literature. Leave this book alone though if you're used to more traditional stuff - not that everyone would like Lynne Tillman.

The New Gatekeepers: Emerging Challenges to Free Expression in the Arts

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The New Gatekeepers: Emerging Challenges to Free Expression in the Arts
Amy Adler , Carol Becker , Timothy Cahill , Rochelle Gurstein , Charles Mann , Louis Menand , Roger Newman , Michael Brenson , Jake Chapman , Dinos Chapman , Chris Ofili , Laura Ferguson , Edouard Manet , Dread Scott , Andres Serrano , Damien Hirst , Jeff Koons , Cass R. Sunstein , Christopher W. Hawthorne , András Szántó , and Mark Schapiro
Manufacturer: National Arts Journalism Program
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Binding: Paperback

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Disputes over free expression in the arts have always loomed as struggles between creativity and repression, transgression and outrage, candor and hypocrisy. But while high-profile shootouts at art museums and less visible skirmishes at schools, libraries, and theaters persist, overt censorship is no longer the only, or the most dire, threat to free expression. On the one hand, society has become more accepting of provocative imagery, with media conglomerates often leading the way in the depreciation of taboos. On the other hand, artists, while enjoying some unprecedented liberties, are hemmed in by new constraints that often fall beyond the range of First Amendment protection. The current terrain bears little resemblance to the culture wars of a decade ago, much less to what the First Amendment's Framers could have imagined. And since Sept. 11, 2001, the frontlines of the free-expression debate have been shifting once again. Based on a Columbia University conference organized by the National Arts Journalism Program, The New Gatekeepers explores the reconfigured ranks of those who decide what the public gets to see, hear and read, from struggles over intellectual property and copyright, to continuing debates about acceptable and offensive content in the cultural marketplace, to the less visible biases of the arts funding system. This heavily illustrated book also includes a historical overview of censorship and contributions by 40 scholars, artists, experts and journalists from around the United States. Discussed and participating artists include Edouard Manet, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Serra, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andres Serrano, Carolee Schneemann, Dread Scott, Gran Fury, Joel-Peter Witkin, Kara Walker, Jock Sturges, Chris Ofili, and Tom Sachs.

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Books - 5 Stars, Binding and Price - 3 Stars

Andy Warhol's Interview (7 Volume Set)
Bruce Weber , Elton John , Jeff Koons , and Andy Warhol
Manufacturer: Edition 7L
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Binding: Hardcover

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Andy Warhol: Red Books
Face of Fashion

ASIN: 3865210236
Release Date: 2004-12-02

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The October 2004 edition of Interview magazine will mark 35 years of the award winning journal founded by pop art pioneer Andy Warhol. In that time it has developed from the newsletter of the Studio 54 set into the definitive guide to the most significant stars of today and tomorrow. Adopting an original format the magazine uses recordings of questions and answer sessions to reveal information about celebrities, politicians, filmmakers, musicians and literary figures. The questions are often put by another celebrity and the answers are revealing, intimate and candid. Alongside the interviews are photographs by the crAme de la crAme of celebrity and fashion photography - Robert Mapplethorpe, Francesco Scavullo, Herb Ritts, Ara Gallant, Peter Beard, Bruce Weber, Perry Berenson and others - who are given the opportunity to make some of their most challenging and original work. For 35 years Interview has offered an original perspective on the sexy, fascinating and funny people who are shaping popular culture. This collection of 7 books presents the first catalogue of the first decade of that extraordinary history and like the rare, early issues of the magazine is bound to become a valuable collector's item.

Customer Reviews:

False Advertising.......2005-02-03

As the previous reviewer noted, there's a huge discrepancy between the description and the actual product. I was at first worried and then, when I learned the truth, disappointed to find that the product I'd recieved was much less than promised. Amazon and the publisher should correct the descriptions immediately. And the price should be adjusted (downwards) to match the actual contents.

Books - 5 Stars, Binding and Price - 3 Stars.......2005-01-25

The information reproduced in these volumes is truly impressive. The 7 books and two slip-cased magazines are a terrific testament to Paul Morrissey, Warhol, and everyone else who worked on the first decade of Inter/View magazine.

The boxed set is packaged expertly, with the books boxed separately from the rough, unfinished plywood "Karl Lagerfeld-designed crate."

The books truly are a treasure of 1970's glamour and kitsch. Each selected article and cover are faithfully reproduced, complete with age-yellowed newsprint and the occasional "Sample Only Please Subscribe" stamped on the page long ago. If it were for content alone, I would give this collection 5 STARS.

That being said, even as a "limited edition of 2000" the $475 price is a bit steep. The Amazon price of $299 is better, but $199 would have been more appropriate.

The description published here and elsewhere is misleading. I suspect they changed the box and bindings before publication to cut back on costs and neglected to send out a new press release with an updated product description.

When I opened the boxes, the books did not match the published product description at all. The "Karl Lagerfeld-designed crate" is rough, unfinished plain yellow painted plywood (not the box with the color photo of Andy in the Santa hat seen above). The books were not uniquely bound in various materials (cloth, plastic, metallic material, etc., as in the description). Each book is bound in the same red, black, and white printed cardboard covers. Also, no Audio CD was included with book 3.

I was concerned that there may have been two additions, so I emailed the publisher. They were very kind and quick to respond:

"I'm very sorry to hear that you did not get what you expected. What you received however is the one and only result of the long working process we had with Interview magazine. If you are not satisfied with it at all I would send it back to Amazon."

If you are at all interested in Warhol, the Factory, or this period, the set is a brilliant edition to any library... just be prepared to be a little disappointed.

Wearing of This Garment Does Not Enable You to Fly : 101 Real Dumb Warning Labels

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Short, Cute
Cute, but that's about it
Get it from the library, if you must get it..

Wearing of This Garment Does Not Enable You to Fly : 101 Real Dumb Warning Labels
Jeff Koon , and Andy Powell
Manufacturer: Free Press
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You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant : 101 Real Dumb Laws
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Great Government Goofs: Over 350 Loopy Laws, Hilarious Screw-Ups and Acts-Idents of Congress

ASIN: 0743244753

Book Description

America's famous teenage stalkers of stupidity are back! From the authors of You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant, here is a collection of 101 of the dumbest product warnings you'll ever see.

The infamous 1994 McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit has spawned a veritable industry of "hot" warnings, from Kellogg's Pop-Tarts admonition that "[i]f pastry is overheated, frosting/filling can become extremely hot and could cause burns" to the Black Cat Fireworks label: "Caution: flammable. Do not put in mouth." If, on the other hand, you manage to escape the heat with a trip to the beach, be warned that a twenty-inch beach ball is "NOT a lifesaving device." Kids (and maybe even parents) might be forgiven, however, for thinking that Mr. Bubbles Body Wash for Kids of All Ages would be okay to use if they missed the warning label: "Caution. Keep out of reach of young children."

In the brave new world of technology, users frustrated by the gobbledygook of users' manuals will be relieved that their warning labels at least make sense: the Sun StarOffice End User License Agreement warns users that "software is not designed, licensed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility," while the SGI IRIS Indigo Workstation manual tells you, "Don't dangle the mouse by its cable or throw the mouse at coworkers." And for those who just can't quite figure out what to do with some of their new purchases, this might help: "Use Gold Dial as you would ordinary soap" explains the Dial soap label.

Compiled by Jeff Koon and Andy Powell, this hilarious collection features the best contributions from the hundreds of thousands of fans of their Web sites, www.dumblaws.com and www.dumbwarnings.com, and forty-two original drawings by illustrator Tim Carroll.

Customer Reviews:

Short, Cute.......2005-12-20

This book offers a few laughs and memorable Warning Labels, but is too short to really be enjoyable. Some of the Labels are cute, and you can spend time wondering who actaully did some of the ridiculous stuff in there, but the book ends far too soon. You get about 30 good lables out of the 101, that's about it. I read through it in about 20 minutes, then gave it as a gift the next day.

Cute, but that's about it.......2004-03-13

We all know that there is a plethora of items out there with ridiculous warning labels on them. Everything from the hair dryer that warns you not to use it while in the shower to the contraceptive jelly that warns against ingestion. This is the litigious nature of our society. Some of the warnings in this book are truly funny, a few will get a chuckle out of you, but most are just kind of blah. More fun is to go out and find the ludicrous warnings yourself and then try to imagine the person/people to whom these warnings are directed. It will likely make you wonder how the human race has survived this long and just how much longer we can make it.

Get it from the library, if you must get it.........2003-06-21

I borrowed this book from the library expecting a lot more. Too much more, maybe. It reads like one of those meditation-a-day style books with a meditation (dumb label) on each page and really isn't very funny. Sure, there were a few good cracks on really dumb labels, but for the mostpart I felt that the authors were far reaching into labels that had every right to be attached to the particular product. I found myself thinking.. "What's wrong with that?" and "I understand why they have that label there".

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The man who enshrined a hoover vacuume and a basketball, who created a life-sized polychromed wood replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles, who transfered his sex life with Italian porn star wife Ilona Staller onto canvas, and who made a monumental topiary sculpture in the shape of a puppy, is back. After a seven-year hiatus from the public eye, bad boy Jeff Koons returns in this comprehensive and overdue survey of his work of the past five years. Three elaborate, highly-produced series are presented, including the joyously effusive "Celebration," an ambitious body of 16 photo-realist paintings and 20 stainless steel sculptures that draw upon the symbols and objects associated with the observance of life's festive rituals.

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Wittgenstein = Greenburg ...?!?!!??? !.......2007-01-06

Isn't post-modernisim about reinturpreting existing ideas?
Actually I'd like to know what IS in this book:

It seems to be written in German, English and French.
_ (I'm not too interested in what Mr JK has to say anyway. I usually think Koons' work is intresting by itself without the insightful blaggerganda that foggs up the whole meaning/intent thing. In his case it gets pretentious; it's just better not to know.)

It is 132 pages, too short to afford my $29 right now -- but considering...

As the cover suggests it is likely a photoshoot of a show cica 2001/02. This means it is a lot of large scale stainless steel sculptures amounst smaller steel wall mounts and several really happy paintings.

I'm guessing its a nice book as it is from a fine press. I bet the images look great. But... I don't know?
Personally I'd rather it be an overview of Koon's paintings from that era.

...and also, Koons is like Duchamp? He more like Corbet?! Showin' people the way things is/are.

anyway.

How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life (Wittgenstein).......2005-07-25

There is a single idea that permeates Koons work. This idea is neither good, nor original, nor indeed - since it has been 70 years since Duchamps "Fountain" - particularly exciting. If there were a "Ladybird book of Modern Art", Jeff's saccharine, 'easyfun' work would be that book. Koons art-as-commodity schitck would be more convincing if the buying public had to decide. His commodities fail as commodities - their status as art, is, of course guaranteed, since (see Duchamp) he has told us it is so. Show me one more Scots Terrier made of flowers and I shall reach for my Uzi in a frenzy of post-modern criticism

try to make something good for once........2004-02-27

most of koons work is just duchamps idea repeated in several different forms.

pornography and Art - can they live together???.......1999-10-11

Pornography - Erotic Art is only few of his works! but takes big place in every reader mind!! (and please don't tell me u buy Playboy for the articles...) Jeff Koons decided to expose himself and his intimic life. He is no longer takes his wife and show HER nudity! but expose himself as well! he makes us think about the thin line between Pornography and Art! and he defenatly do it in a wondergul gentle way! Have fun and don't feel guilty forenjoying the regular Art inside the book!

Illy Collection: A Decade of Artist Cups by illycaffè

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A must for any ILLY COLLECTION fan.

Illy Collection: A Decade of Artist Cups by illycaffè
Andrea Illy , Francesco Illy , Matteo Thun , Achille Bonito Oliva , Michelangelo Pistoletto , Neil Aitken , Hannah Anderson , Francis Ford Coppola , Ernesto Illy , Vittoria Illy , Marina Abramovic , Louise Bourgeois , David Byrne , Sandro Chia , Mario Giacomelli , Jeff Koons , Joseph Kosuth , and Jannis Kounellis
Manufacturer: Charta
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ASIN: 8881584069
Release Date: 2003-04-02

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Which is more important, the coffee you drink or the cup you drink it from? The choice is a difficult one for any aesthete to make, and it is only highlighted and intensified by famed Italian coffeemaker illycaff , which, since 1933, has been producing one of the world's greatest espressos, and which, since 1992, has been commissioning limited-edition coffee cup designs from internationally renowned and emerging artists, musicians, and filmmakers. If the story of the coffee begins with Francesco Illy in Trieste, the story of the cup begins in 1990 with architect and engineer Matteo Thun, who designed a white espresso cup to the exacting specifications of the Illy family. The volume and diameter had to be just so, the rim had to accept resting lips in a most practical manner, and the all-important bowl at the bottom of the cup had to conserve heat effectively. Once the prototype was approved, the family set about having it transformed with original work by the likes of Sandro Chia, Nam June Paik, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, David Byrne, Francis Ford Coppola, Joseph Kosuth, Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michel Comte, Jannis Kounellis, and Louise Bourgeois. Good to the last drop--unless coffee isn't your cup of tea.

Customer Reviews:

A must for any ILLY COLLECTION fan........2005-10-03

Illy to some is the best coffee in the world, I can't say that since I have not tasted them all but I do love Illy, especially their espresso pods, but Illy is more than just coffee, they represent the most advanced and yet the most simple of pleasures... and their cup embodies that. This book is all about that, It covers the creation and a good decade's worth of artisitic varatations on the Illy cup.

I have been bitten by the Illy Collection bug and own a few of the sets, it's nice to have this book as a guide to the "expensive" past. The only problem is that the collection is only through 2003, so it is missing the 2004/2005 cups. Espresso has never been so stylish!

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