Do Not Disturb

Gianni Versace's homes--the lakeside villa near Como, the baroque palazzo in Milan, and the sun-filled Art Deco fantasy in Miami--reflect his sensual appreciation of style, comfort, and beauty. His unbridled enthusiasm for the baroque finds new expression in Do Not Disturb, his playful peek behind the closed doors of the Versace homes. Versace's Garden of Eden is found at home--be that a stuccoed Ottocento pavilion fronting the Lago di Como, a sumptuous home office in the center of the fashion capital, or an Art Deco pile in South Beach. Versace's Adam and Eve might well by Sylvester Stallone and Claudia Schiffer, modestly shielding themselves from our view with a Gorgon-head dinner plate. His vision is translated through the lens of the world's most accomplished photographers--Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, and Massimo Listri--and illustrated with a cornucopia of drawings and pastels by Karl Lagerfeld and Gladys Perint Palmer. Sir Roy Strong, a former Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, contributes a stunning text to match the visual feast. Just as Versace established in his astonishing Men Without Ties the limitless possibilities of menswear, so he has broken the boundaries of traditional definitions of fashion and home style in Do Not Disturb.