The City of Wine - Bordeaux (bilingual edition in French and English)

The City of Wine is a beautiful bilingual book (French/English) that celebrates an iconic architectural work located in the heart of Bordeaux. Designed by the architects Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières, this bold achievement embodies the urban renaissance of Bordeaux and establishes itself as an icon of the contemporary landscape. Through its fluid and organic gesture, it evokes the movement of wine in a glass, paying tribute to the Garonne River at its feet.

The photographer Isabelle Rozenbaum has followed the construction site since its beginnings. His artistic approach captures the complexity, challenges, and emotion of a build with unique curves. Through his images, the work offers a visual journey over the seasons, a sensitive memory of the built environment, revealing the secrets of an extraordinary construction site.

This book not only documents a building; it also tells a human adventure and Cultural. The texts, written by Twelve figures from the world of wine - among which Michel Rolland, , Jean-Robert Pitte, , Serge Cazes, , Prince Robert of Luxembourg or even Gérard Basset – each provide a personal reflection on the symbolic dimension of the City of Wine, its impact in the oenological world and its cultural influence.

Genuine Work of paper, @La Cité du Vin is both a art book, a photographic testimony and a architectural manifesto, dedicated to a visionary project that links wine, , art, , Architecture and collective memory.

Each double page invites you to contemplate the transformation of a place, from its foundations to its inauguration, highlighting the shapes, textures, and volumes of this building-sculpture. This book will naturally find its place in the library of the wine enthusiasts, some architecture enthusiasts and the curious about urban transformation from Bordeaux.

🟩 Article features

• Type of product : Beautiful book

• Title : The City of Wine

• Photographs : Isabelle Rozenbaum

• Texts A. Legendre, N. Desmazières, G. Basset, G. Berdin, D. Khayat, M. Rolland, B. Cointreau, J.-R. Pitte, S. Cazes, F. Battistella, A. Ostertag, Prince Robert of Luxembourg

• Translation Jayne McKenzie

• Editor : Elytis

• Collection : BEAUTIFUL BOOKS

• Publication date : June 2, 2016

• EAN13 : 9782356391827

• ISBN : 978-2-35639-182-7

• Format : Connected

• Number of pages : 252

• Dimensions 28.6 x 23.9 x 2.7 cm

• Weight : 1584 g

• Language : French / English