Our Room with a View

Something arrived in the mail today that we are very excited about.  It's a book published by one of our favorite publishers, Assouline.  We first met Martine Assouline in her unpretentious Paris office a few years ago.  She epitomizes French style and class.  Her vision with Assouline continues to visually inspire us.  The book is a compilation of the many "Room with a View" images photographed for Condé Nast Traveler spanning 57 countries, 140 hotel properties, 230 pages, and among the contributors, two smiling photographers from Nebraska.  Our photograph was shot at Little Dix Bay in Virgin Gorda. 


I love the poetic introduction of the book by André Aciman.  Here's an excerpt:


"A room with a window is not about the view but about having the view and knowing you have it.  A picture of the same without the window is a still file, what the French call a nature morte-dead to the senses.  And that, in the end, is what is so magical about a room with a view that shows us the room and the view.  It is not dead.  It is not timeless.  It is here and now.  Just walk onto this balcony, says the picture, and you're suddenly there."

To order this book go to www.assouline.com