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Costa Rica

…the whole country was covered with clouds … By degrees the more distant clouds were lifted, and over the immense bed we saw at the same moment the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This was the grand spectacle we had hoped, but scarcely expected to behold.

John Lloyd Stephens Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume I (1841)
The forest-green linen Costa Rica Vida hardcover by Assouline, with turquoise and pale-gold lettering above a stylised red, turquoise and cream flower outlined in gold.

For your coffee table

Costa Rica Vida

Assouline

Pacific surf, rainforest and the green canopy of pura vida.

Linen hardcover · Over 150 illustrations

25 × 33 cm

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An open spread from Costa Rica Vida, with an aerial view of a swimmer in a turquoise pool ringed by rainforest on the left and a woman in a yoga backbend on a dark-sand beach below a misty green headland on the right.

Some of my Instagram posts from Costa Rica

A blue morpho butterfly with closed, eye-spotted brown wings resting on a stone path at La Paz Waterfall Gardens.A yellow-throated toucan perched on a branch among green tropical leaves near Poás.The turquoise crater lake of Poás Volcano with steam rising and a green ridge above the clouds.