Liaigre: 12 Projects by Christian Liaigre

In the introduction to his latest book, Liaigre: Twelve Projects (Flammarion through Rizzoli, $135), Christian Liaigre asserts that “people need beauty.” The French designer, who is as noted for his line of luxury furniture as the interiors he creates for fashionable clients such as Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and François Nars, reinforces this statement with a look at his latest projects: a coterie of residences and two yachts. Presented with minimal text and editorially compelling photography, readers journey with Liaigre from St. Barts to London, Athens to New York, taking in stylish versions of home at every stop. (rizzoliusa.com)