Founded in the basement of Prosper and Martine Assouline’s Paris apartment in 1994, the eponymous publishing house known for its colorful coffee-table books and lavish collections has grown to employ 80 people (not including the staff at retail stores across the world) and move its headquarters to a 42-story building on Manhattan’s Park Avenue. Despite all this, Assouline is still very much a family-run business.
I interviewed the founders’ son Alexandre Assouline, newly appointed to the role of chief of operations, in his apartment in downtown Manhattan’s Police Building, formerly the city’s police headquarters. We sat before a staggering bookcase holding hundreds of Assouline titles.
