ASSOULINEVenice La Serenissima

Assouline's 'Venice: La Serenissima Richelieu Edition' spans more than a millennium through roughly sixty defining moments, from the city's founding in 421 CE to the Venice Biennale. Written by Alberto Toso Fei and introduced by Peter Marino, it arrives in a hand-fabricated Fortuny clamshell lined in blue silk over wooden slats, with a copper title plaque and hand-painted plaster medallion of the Lion of Venice.