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Assouline
About
Assouline is a luxury publishing house founded in Paris in 1994 by Prosper and Martine Assouline and now headquartered in New York. The company created the category of the luxury coffee-table book as a collectible object, publishing illustrated volumes on fashion, travel, art, design, and lifestyle that double as decorative statements.
Its catalogue spans more than a thousand titles, from the popular Travel Series celebrating destinations such as Capri, St. Moritz, and Ibiza, to brand histories produced with luxury houses, and the Ultimate Collection, oversized hand-bound editions with slipcases that sell for around a thousand dollars or more. Assouline also produces bookends, candles with literary-inspired scents, and library accessories, and offers a bespoke library curation service that designs and stocks private libraries for residences, yachts, and hotels.
Assouline sells through its own boutiques, including Maison Assouline on Piccadilly in London, shops in New York and other major cities, and concessions in luxury department stores, alongside its e-commerce site. The family-run brand positions its products as cultural gifts, and its books have become a staple of luxury interiors, hotel suites, and corporate gifting programs worldwide.
Its catalogue spans more than a thousand titles, from the popular Travel Series celebrating destinations such as Capri, St. Moritz, and Ibiza, to brand histories produced with luxury houses, and the Ultimate Collection, oversized hand-bound editions with slipcases that sell for around a thousand dollars or more. Assouline also produces bookends, candles with literary-inspired scents, and library accessories, and offers a bespoke library curation service that designs and stocks private libraries for residences, yachts, and hotels.
Assouline sells through its own boutiques, including Maison Assouline on Piccadilly in London, shops in New York and other major cities, and concessions in luxury department stores, alongside its e-commerce site. The family-run brand positions its products as cultural gifts, and its books have become a staple of luxury interiors, hotel suites, and corporate gifting programs worldwide.
Luxury Collectibles
Assouline's limited and hand-bound editions, including the oversized Ultimate Collection with slipcased volumes priced from around a thousand dollars, are produced as collectible objects. Brand-history volumes made with major luxury houses are sought by collectors of fashion and design ephemera.
Luxury Gifts
Assouline's illustrated books are a staple of luxury gifting, from Travel Series volumes on destinations like Capri and St. Moritz to hand-bound Ultimate Collection editions. Candles, bookends, and a bespoke library curation service for homes, yachts, and hotels round out a catalogue built for giving.
Brand Details
Brand Tier
High Luxury
Price Range
$50 - $5,000
Founded
1994
Headquarters
New York, United States
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Assouline deserves credit for essentially inventing a product category, the coffee-table book as luxury decorative object, and turning it into a genuinely global retail business with boutiques from Piccadilly to New York rather than remaining a niche publisher. The Travel Series and brand-collaboration titles have become such fixtures of luxury interiors and hotel suites that the books now function more as design accessories than reading material, which is precisely the brand's intent and its main point of differentiation from conventional publishing houses. The bespoke library curation service for residences, yachts, and hotels is a smart extension that leverages the brand's aesthetic authority into higher-margin interior design territory. Where the proposition gets stretched thin is the sheer volume of the catalogue, over a thousand titles inevitably means variable editorial depth, and the price premium on the Ultimate Collection editions rewards the object and packaging more than the content itself. As a gifting and interior-design brand rather than a serious publisher, though, Assouline executes its concept with consistent visual polish.
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