Matteo Pericoli's The City Out My Window. 63 New Yorker's Views.

Recently published by Simon and Schuster, artist, illustrator and author Matteo Pericoli's latest book, The City Out My Window, is a collection of line drawings representing the private window views of 63 New Yorkers.



The City Out My Window shows us the personal views of the big apple as seen by Tom Wolfe, Tony Kushner, Nora Ephron, Stephen Colbert, Richard Meier, Oliver Sacks, Mario Batali, David Byrne, and other artists, writers, and thinkers who help make the city what it is. The book includes their comments on what they see out their window and is introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger.

Here's a peek at some of the private views in the book, as drawn in ink by Matteo:










The Table of Contents: (click to enlarge to see whose window views are in the book):



The book captures New York as seen through the eyes of New Yorkers both famous and ordinary, whose particular window views reveal a hidden perspective of the city—and of themselves. And would make a great gift for any art or NY lover.

New York, New York. New Book, New Book.

Wow, now THIS is a book.



If you love New York, photography and architecture, this amazing volume of 756 pages, hand-bound in silk and encased in a Lucite "skyscraper"has 33 chapters that show off the city's culture (both historical and contemporary) in many categories, with photos shot by tons of respected photographers and writing from some of the key journalists in New York City culture, including Ric Burns, Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, John Updike and many more.





The book, published by Gloria Luxury Books, features archival and modern photography from Annie Leibovitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Patrick Demarchelier, Weegee, Jerry Schatzberg and David Bailey, as well as images presented in collaboration with the major New York photographic archives.





The name, the Lenape Edition, is named after the first Indian tribe to inhabit New York State. The book is limited to 1,000 units and has a basic edition at $2,500 (£1,200), a "Liberty" edition, with two archival prints, at $4,500 (£2,300) and a premium "Columbus" edition - limited to 100 units - for $15,000 (£7,600).




The almost 25 pound book comes packaged in a lucite 'skyscraper'- like container with a base on which it stands:



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