Lighters: Accendini
by Stefano Bisconcini
Category: Design

This elegant compendium features lighters unlike any you1ve seen before, from a time when companies such as Dunhill, Cartier, and Zippo became more than manufacturers -- they were artisans, creating lighters of the best quality and design. The book exhibits these refined smoking accoutrements, illuminating an invention with as many distinctive qualities as a fine cigar. It presents nearly 150 masterpieces of form and functionality, each pictured in a beautiful color photograph and with a caption in both English and Italian. The lively and informative text highlights international manufacturers -- Cartier, Dunhill, S.T. Dupont, Colibri, Parker, Ronson, and Zippo, among others -- who brought style to the engineering and manufacture of the lighter.