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Hawaii

For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its surf-beat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore …

Mark Twain Speech to a baseball team returning from a world tour by way of the Sandwich Islands (1889), in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1923)
The Hawaii Travel Book by Esad Ribić, with a surfer leaping a turquoise wave beside city towers at sunset, a brown cloth spine and a teal elastic band.

For your coffee table

Hawaii

Travel Book

Louis Vuitton

Hawaii in Esad Ribić’s painterly drawings, from surf breaks to palms above the city at dusk.

Hardcover with elastic band · 120 drawings · French and English text

28 × 19 cm

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An open spread of Esad Ribić’s Hawaii: palm trees silhouetted above the lights of a city at dusk beneath an orange sky.

Some of my Instagram posts from Hawaii

Olga in a long red dress sitting above the Kalalau Valley on Kauaʻi, with a rainbow over the green ridges and the sea.Olga walking along a white-sand beach on the Big Island towards a point of palms.Olga sitting on the bonnet of a red Jeep on a beach, watching the sun set over the sea.