Il Dolce Far Niente: The Italian Way of Summer by Lucy Laucht (SIGNED EDITION)

In her debut book, Il Dolce Far Niente: The Italian Way of Summer, photographer Lucy Laucht transports readers to the perfect vacation. A languorous August afternoon, those impossible Mediterranean blues. The scent of sun on hot skin. A splash, a conversation. The pleasure of being beside the sea. Welcome to Southern Italy and “il dolce far niente.” The sweetness of doing nothing.

“My gaze has long been drawn to the human milieu of a summer beach. I love the calm and the chaos. I love the quiet poetry of who we are beside the sea. I love the way a country’s maritime fringes gently reveal so much of the national character.”

—Lucy Laucht, from her introduction

Illuminated by Laucht's candid photography and travelogues, Il Dolce Far Niente epitomizes the notion that true beauty lies in life's unfiltered moments and unhurried rhythms. She welcomes readers to her favorite eight Southern coast locales—Naples, Amalfi and Capri, Ischia, Aeolian Islands, Puglia, Sicily, and Egadi Islands—through her lens, recommendations for how and where to travel, and meditations on the Italian ways of relaxing.

• Hardcover
• Signed edition
• 268 pages
• 11.1 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
• 2.54 pounds
• Released in June 2024 by Artisan Books