Eric Marc

Publisher

Luxury & Dreams

The Passion of Prestige Publishing

Private Jets

SuperYachts

High-end Hotels

Going in search of images from other photographers offering us the gentleness of their view of our world.

Setting out to discover words paying homage to the somptuousness of Nature.

Marying our images and these texts.

Offering them to each of my readers,
these eternal dreamy travelers, aesthetes and hedonists, in search of wonder.

These are the reasons of my passion for publishing.

None of this would be possible without the talent of these artists whom I would like to warmly thank.

Allow me to invite you to discover here a few of our pages …

Eric Marc Gispalou

Publisher – Luxury & Dreams

Wind

«At ten, we had gone beyond the reef, a cool breeze went up, our friends the Otahitians, and particularly the queen, said good bye for the last time in such a touching way and with so much sorrow that my heart sank and my eyes filled up with tears. »
Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret
An Account of the Voyage Round the World – 1767

« Not a living being to be seen, and to the best of our knowledge, we were perhaps the first mortals to contemplate the bay.
This thought gave wings to inspiration. »
Hermann Melville
Omoo – 1842

«Oh Tane, God of beauty, leader of the fleets, from the depth of the ocean Look after your people. Carry us in the hands of your mana straight to our destination. »
Tupaia
Papers - 1850

«Born under the most marvellous sky, breed from a fertile untouched soil, led by fathers rather than kings, they know no other God than Love.»
Commerson
Bougainville et ses compagnons autour du monde
1766-1769

«There was prayer in the ocean which moves and rolls. The sea was the great «marae» of the world. »
Fai (ray fish) was the swimming «marae»
* marae : ancient Polynesian temple
The Polynesian god’s genealogy

Tane Tahiti

« Merry Southern Eden, may your name be praised. »
Anna Seward
(1742 – 1809)
British romantic poetess
Elegy on Captain Cook (1780)

« Islands have a silence you can hear. »
Italo Calvino
(1923-1985)
Italian writer and philosopher
The adventure of a poet (1964)

Silence

« The waters of that lagoon were so calm […]. At times, in shallow bays, the water was pure yellow turning to blue-green and in the end to a dazzling indigo as depth was growing.»
Herbert Ernest Bates

Together

Pearl & Women

Pearl & Women
Sydney

Alive

« Life is beauty. Admire it »
Mother Teresa
(1910 – 1997)
Catholic nun
1979 Nobel Peace Prize

Zen

Neverland

Alone

«In these Elysian fields, immortality is the only lack in order to enjoy all these pleasures that poetic imagination would give to lost heroes, ultimate reward for the heroic virtue.»
Rickman
Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage
to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery - 1781

«I plunged my head – eyes opened – into the water, which was transparent and absinth coloured, at the bottom of the lagoon…
Then I quickly pulled my head out of the water again and looked at my radiant surroundings. »
Henri Matisse

«From life, they know only its delights»
Paul Gauguin
Lettre à Willumsen – 1890.

Tane Tahiti