The result is a handsome coffee table reference book that for now, at least, is the definitive work on Châteauneuf.
Here, he invites viewers to sit at a handsome wooden table and shuffle through photographs shot on a recent road trip through Canada.
His is one of those houses perfectly shaped to the needs of their fastidious and eccentric owners: it is hung with his father's paintings; there is a beautiful coffin, given to him by a close friend for his fifty-fifth birthday, and a handsome dining table with a skeleton embedded in its glass top, its arms and feet shackled to a rack.
Now all of Hurley's photographs from the expedition (and some from others) are reproduced in a handsome coffee-table book.
His street art is not for sale, but he survives by selling studio pieces and, now, a handsome coffee-table retrospective documenting his work since 2003.
And four Walton-related books have appeared in quick succession: a biography, a volume of letters, a life-in-pictures and a handsome coffee-table tome about the garden.
Instead, two new books that portray the Hamptons on a higher plain are popular: "Studios by the Sea," a handsome coffee-table book photographed by Jonathan Becker, with text by Bob Colacello, and "Hamptons Bohemia -- Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach," by Helen A. Harrison and Constance Ayers Denne.
Fifty years later, his son, Inson Dubois Wood, is mounting his own traveling show, as documented in a handsome coffee-table book from Rizzoli (Inson Dubois Wood Interiors.
Dalton's 2429 Foxon Road (Route 80), North Branford (203) 481-4711 Very Good ATMOSPHERE A small contemporary dining room in shades of beige, gray, cocoa and white, with handsome tables, chairs and wall sconces.
