Hotel Il Pellicano

Complete Ltd was commissioned by Violette Editions to Colour Manage all Juergen Teller and John Swope imagery featured in a book marking forty years at the legendary, Hotel Il Pellicano.

Working alongside a well known New York based image house, Complete Ltd ensured the client of our expert skills in Post-Production and Pre-Press by creating accurately reproduced colour for their high-end product. Violette Editions publishes only a handful of specialist books each year – and are renowned for their originality, print and production standards which boasts an enviable backlist on contemporary arts and culture.

The book records the last forty years at the hotel, starting with photographs from John Swope who documents the story from the very start of it’s construction on the top of Monte Argentario in the sixties. Celebrity & society photographer Slim Aarons provides images of the hotel during the seventies & eighties, and portrays the stunning setting, scenery and glamourous jet-set in-situ during the summer season. Juergen Teller photo-documented the hotel for a week to coincide with Hotel Il Pellicano’s Globetrotters’ Party in June 2009. His subjects are the modern elite in the world of luxury & fashion and include Mario Testino, Margherita Missoni, Silvia Venturini Fendi, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld and the bruised thigh of Giovanna Battaglia in a Louis Vuitton feather skirt.