Slim Aarons "Keep Your Cool" Photograph 0224SpringMakeover they make a perfect present

they make a perfect present for a playful host (or pick-me-up for yourself)

Form plus function equals fabulously cool

Everything appears chicer in a curved mirror popping from a polished brass or nickel square

Quatrefoil handles and escutcheons add a decorative flourish to the simple form

Slim Aarons "Keep Your Cool" Photograph 0224SpringMakeover they make a perfect present1978Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. Hand selected from American photographer Slim Aarons' classic collection. Aarons is renowned for his evocative photographs of, as he described it, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Each image is printed from scans of the original negative then mounted on aluminum and faced with museum quality Plexiglas.