Hollywood Handbook

By: Andre Balazs

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Paperback | 28 March 2025

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256 Pages

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20.9 x 16.69 x 2.62

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An unusual collection of literary texts, tabloidesque design, and fashion and celebrity photography celebrating Hollywood's legendary Chateau Marmont. Perfect for anyone interested in the endlessly fascinating dream factory of Hollywood.

The uniqueness and peculiarity of Hollywood is that it hascome to play the role of "utopia and dystopia". Since 1929 the preeminent outpost from which to observe the most medicated, most polarizing town in America has been the Chateau Marmont. It seems that every creative talent in Hollywood eventually checks in at the Marmont, so there is an extraordinary collection of films, photographs, and literature created in and about the Chateau, and often by extension, about Hollywood itself.

This collection gathers a sampling of that incredible output in a tabloidesque design that pays homage to the way Hollywood sees itself.

Industry Reviews

"So it’s fitting that in Rizzoli’s book about the Chateau—The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook—tales of almost a century’s worth of guests are interwoven with reflections on life in LA more generally. One page has staff notes on notables like Orson Welles (“somewhat a mystery guest”); another has a timeline of the city’s development from Spanish colony to entertainment capital. Flip a few more and you’ll find a chronicle of Hollywood’s best scandals. The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook was originally published in 1996. In the decades that followed, it amassed a cult following—so much so that Rizzoli decided to reissue the text after 29 years out of print. Since then, the Chateau has only shrouded itself in more secretive scandal: in 2012, Lindsay Lohan racked up a room bill of over $46,350.04 in less than two months (to the tabloids’ delight), and Jay Z and Beyoncé made it the location for their annual Oscar Party. And so the legend grows." — VOGUE

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