The front of the book features a two-carat, emerald-cut Tiffany blue sapphire near its top left corner.
Inside the book
Hollands geometric creation was no ode to Audrey Hepburn.
Blake Edwardss 1961 film adaptationa romantic drama starring starring Hepburndeviates rather considerably from Capotes gorgeously gruff prose.
Photo: Kate Holland
(The Art Deco motifs ofTiffany & Co.s Fifth Avenue flagshipwere another inspiration.)
But wait, theres more!
Such a book needs a way to be displayedespecially given its $1.5 million price tag.
The front of the book features a two-carat, emerald-cut Tiffany blue sapphire near its top left corner.
For that, Holland continued to mine Capotes words for inspiration.
(The authorrecently portrayed in Ryan MurphysFeud: Capote vs.
The Swanswas born on September 30, 1924.)
Inside the book
Parish would also make a trunk to be sold alongside the book.
(Pictured in one image?
A nude woman viewed through the attenuated bars ofyesa birdcage.)
Photo: Courtesy of David Attie Estate
The irony isnt lost on her for a moment.
(Its no coincidence that another of the worlds preeminent book-arts fairs takes place in San Francisco.)
Her idea, though, is to make an object that could seem ubiquitous feel interesting and special again.
Photo: Courtesy of David Attie Estate
Photo: Courtesy of David Attie Estate
