Jean-Pierre Heim,Architect Van Cleef & Arpels, Revillon, Baccarat, Christian Lacroix, Lanvin, and Club Med are names that evoke images of glamour, quality, and exclusivity. While each of these prestigious organizations takes care to develop its own, uniquely appropriate retail store, hotel or other milieu to serve its clientele, they share one gifted architect among themselves and with many of their peers: Jean-Pierre Heim. Now, for the first time, a beautifully produced monograph has assembled 34 superb examples of work by this visionary architect and designer, drawing from portfolios in his offices in New York, Paris and Athens. The collection is entitled simply Jean-Pierre Heim,Architect. In the pages that follow, brilliant, specially commissioned four-color photographs, accompanied by explanatory notes, depict some of the finest examples of Jean-Pierre Heim’s hotels, restaurants, retail stores, show-rooms, public buildings, office interiors, private residences, furniture design and tromp I’oeil from around the world. There is Thalassa, for example, a romantic restaurant serving fine Greek cuisine in Soho, New York while giving patrons the impression that they are crusing through the Greek Islands on a luxury sailing ship.A newly rejuvenated Club Med in Dakar, Senegal offers its guests an exotic African expe-rience featuring authentic furnishings made by local craftsmen and every creature comfort a guest could want. Modern convenience and traditional technique come together in a handsome, sun-drenched and wonderfully accommodating private residence on Mykonos overlooking Greece’s Cycladic Islands. And that’s just a sampling of Jean-Pierre Heim’s memorable work for such discriminating clients as the Luxor Palace theater in Dresden, a retail store for Lance1 i n A i x e n Provence, t h e C h u r c h o f t h e Assumption in Paris, and many more. Architects, interior designers and lovers of fine design will find much to inspire and inform them in this book. Jean-Pierre Heim,Architect is a resource that can be studied and enjoyed as often as it is read. JackerTha/osso Restaurant, New York, New York Jacket Photo: Costas Picadas J a c k e t d e s i g n : K e v i n Stone Jean-Pierre Heim is a visionary international architect and designer with active design practices in New York, Paris and Athens.After earning a degree in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completing additional architectural studies at the University of Illinois, he founded Jean-Pierre Heim and Associates (JPH) in Paris in 1980 based on the concept of finding a uniquely effective image for each client. Since then, his firm has developed a rich portfolio of outstanding office interiors, retail stores, restaurants, private residences, hotels and showrooms for businesses and private individuals in locales as diverse as Austria, Monte Carlo, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Switzerland. JPH is proud to count such honored names as Van Cleef & Arpels, Revillon, Baccarat, Christian Lacroix, Lanvin, and Club Med among its prestigious clientele. Because JPH is also recognized as an expert in theater renovation, it is currently managing such theater projects as the Capitol Music Theater in Frankfurt, the Luxor Palace in Dresden, the Studio of Babelsberg in Berlin, and a new concept called Cinepanorama, a prototype complex encompassing an outdoor restaurant, lounge and cinemas that is being developed for Greece and others countries in southern climates. In addition, the firm generates work based on its expertise in foreign trade. A world traveler with a special interest in the vernacular architecture of Africa, the Middle-East,Asia and the Mediterranean, Jean-Pierre Heim enjoys immersing himself and his colleagues in the local culture and tradition for each of the firm’s projects. Whether the firm is operating in New York, Paris or Greece, its approach to design is always multi-dimen-sional. Hence, it offers clients comprehensive design packages that enable it to pay extraordinary attention to such issues as client image, architectural concept, interior design, furniture, furnishings and accessories. Published by: Visual Reference Publications, Inc. 302 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, NY IO00 I Telephone (2 12) 279-7000, Fax (2 12) 279-70 I4 www.visualreference.com