BLA T OBE PS TP PE UNI Last-minute gift ideas bound for the stylish FOR THAT Santa sack that is still half-full, books make a great last-minute gift. Here are some titles a stylish friend or relative would surely enjoy receiving. By Layne Christensen “Fashion Reporter The Art and Craft of Jewelry, by Janet Fitch with photographs by Kevin Summers (Chronicle Books, $17.95). Jewelry lovers and crafty types alike will enjoy this glossy soft-cover book on the how-to of | jewelry making. Beautiful full-color photos of fine and costume jewelry through the ages are complemented with easy-to-follow directions so that even the leftist of thumbs can whip up a bead necklace or puir of papier m@ché earrings. There is something to challenge, the expert (how to bind and coil silver wire) as well as the beginner (how to wire beads). Arthouse, by Graham Percy (Chronicle Books, $16.95) offers up a dream house for art lovers. Percy sketches out a fantastical. house ~,where each room pays homage to the work of a different artist — a : Clothestine for Marcel Duchamp, a Pop Art doll house of Brillo pad boxes: for Andy Warhol, a chest of © - lip-topped drawers. for «Surrealist Man Ray. whipped up this spikey pump on pilings for Cinderella's Revenge. Designer, illustrator and painter Percy has has laid out this attractive hardcover like a sketchbook, with a biography of each artist at the back of the book. The Body: Photographs of the Human Form by William Ewing (Chronicle Books, $39.95). Ewing has archived 350 photographic images of the human form and neat- ly packaged them into this softcover portfolio. This voyeuristic look at the body spans 150° years, with images by well-known photogra- phers that regale and repulse. Available at the Body Shop as well as in bookstores, The Body Shop Book: Skin, Hair and Body Care, with introduction by Anita Roddick (Little, +" Brown and Company, $29.95) takes i holistic: upproach to looking and feeling good and sets out to challenge tradi- Uonal Western notions of idealized “beauty.” Colorful illustrations highlight 216 pages packed with tips for skin, body and hair care, massage and aromatherapy. Also in this hardcover: an exploration of beauty in other cultures that should bust some of our own beauty myths, Did you know that to the Tuareg of the Sahara, beauty means obesity? Or that the Fakirs of India signal their renunciation of this earth by keeping their hair long. matted and teeming with lice? California Country: — Interior Design, Architecture, and b Style, by Diane Dorrans Saeks with — pho- tographs by AJ o hon Vaughan (Chronicle Book's., .$33.50) is an interior- design “resource book. - for California dreamin’. ‘through Califomia editor for Metropolitan Home and editor-at-large for Garden Design magazine, Dorrans Sacks knows her stuff. She has punctuated Vaughan’s magnificent photographs with text to introduce each of the 31 country homes and highlight their unique features. From the grandeur of wine lord Robert Mondavi's hilltop hideaway in the Napa Valley (a solar-heated swimming pool lies smack dab in the centre of the living room) to the tustic hanu of Kipp and Sherna Stewart's redwood shack on Big Sur, this softcover documents through over 220 full-color photos the eclecticistn and beauty of some of the state’s most stylish resi- dences, Cinderella's Revenge. by Samuele Mazza (Chronicle Books, $22.95) is a shoe-in for footwear fanatics. This is Mazza’s companion volume to Brauhaus: Nearly 200 Outrageous, Whimsical — and Intriguing Brassiéres. After issuing an invitation to a number of the world’s pre-eminent artists to take footwear as inspiration and run with it, the Italian fashion designer was deluged with scads of crazy objets d'art — the Walk-Shoe with stereo components, lead and glass pumps with cork and bottleneck for a heel — the best of which are collected in this stocking-stuffer-sized tome. The Seasons. Observed, pho-- tographs by Evelyn H. Lauder (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., $32.95). Lauder may. best be known as daughter-in law to Estée and senior corporate VP of the Estée Lauder companies. but it is: photography that holds her passion. The book celebrates nature season by season pics snapped during Lauder’s and sojourns on her home turf — New York City, Aspen and. ‘the Hudson River. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to the - Breast Cancer Research Found- ation. If you know someone who loses “her head over haberdashery, then . Women’s Hats; il Cappello da Donna, by Adele - Cumpione ‘(Chronicle Books, $17.50) is a _ sure bet. This tidy softcover — traces the evolution of tastes in women's hats from the late-19th cen-, .lury to the 60s, with superb color photos and ‘accompanying ‘text. Heads above the rest: a’ jersey lamé band trimmed with fuchsia bird-of-par- ‘ adise feathers from the *20s, and, .a. — wide-brimmed | Photo submitted. Molyneux from the °50s “THROUGH WITH designing pointy bustiers for Madonna, Jean Paul Gaultier that would have gained . Holly Golightly’s approval. travels around the globe. E86 8. RATT UES SURAAD EIEN Me Lt EPONA SEB a HO a PIT CHRISTMAS SALE Ladies Golf Fashions Galore Open to Public Dec. 19-23 9 am-3 pm 1450 Rupert St. N. Van. ‘ off Main & Mtn, Hwy SEE OUR NEW SAMPLE ROOM CASH ONLY mE ata The Difference. 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