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"Architectural Digest: First things first\u2014what's the new book about? \u2028\n\nFran\u00E7ois Halard: It's really a collection of memories, a tribute to the people and the places that have inspired me over the years. There's a mix of grand houses (Chatsworth, Houghton Hall), more intimate artists' homes and studios (Avedon, Twombly), and images from my body of architecture work (Casa Malaparte, Maison de Verre).\n\nPinterestFacebookThe interior of Paris's iconic steel-and-glass house, Maison de Verre.\n\nAD: How is the book organized? \u2028\n\nFH: The photographs are not presented chronologically or based on any hierarchy or idea of importance. The goal was to translate the emotional impact of all the different subjects in a fluid, almost dreamlike way.\n\nPinterestFacebookCasa Malaparte on the Italian island of Capri.\n\nAD: Was it difficult choosing which images to include? \u2028 \n\nFH: I made all the selections with Beda Achermann, an art director I've worked with for 25 years. Again, the choices were based on which photographs had the most visual and emotional resonance for us.\n\nPinterestFacebookA drawing room at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, UK.\n\nAD: What are the earliest pictures you've included? \u2028 \n\nFH: There are photos of David Hockney that I took when I went to California for my first professional assignment in the U.S., when I was 22 years old. The last thing I shot is the studio of Joan Mir\u00F3, so in a way the book starts with an artist and ends with an artist. \u2028 **\n\nAD: You wrote brief, stream-of-consciousness-style entries to accompany the various stories in the book. They're very personal. \u2028\n\nFH: The entire project is very personal. I had to be forced to put words next to the photos, but I'm happy I did it. The text is about what I was thinking when I shot the pictures and why they still mean so much to me.\n\nPinterestFacebookA portrait of artist Cy Twombly, and objects photographed in his studio.\n\nAD: How did you choose the cover? \u2028\n\nFH: With difficulty! I wanted to use a more spare, abstract image, but the publisher wanted a photograph of my home in Arles. We decided on a shot of my entryway that shows one of my photos from C\u00E9zanne's studio, my Twombly books, furniture and objects I love. \u2028\n\nAD: What's on your wish list of places and people you'd love to shoot? \u2028 \n\nFH: That list is endless\u2014the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, Anselm Kiefer's studio, more young artists, more great architecture. I am always looking, always discovering things that are new and things from the past. Who knows what will inspire me in the future?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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