moveable feasts; Find the perfect gift book for every art lover, fashion devotee, and wide-eyed child on your list.

Byline: Jane Herman And Florence Kane

Art aficionados will welcome four sumptuous new volumes about painters. Lucian Freud 1996-2005 (Knopf) gathers the artist's recent portraits, from his signature fleshy nudes to his controversial painting of Queen Elizabeth II. More portraits fill Elizabeth Peyton (Rizzoli), the much-anticipated first collection of the artist's arch, vibrant depictions of rock stars, royalty, and quirky unknowns. In Francis Bacon's Studio (Merrell), the artist's chaotic South Kensington, London, studio is brought to life through letters, photos, and unfinished works. A powerful exhibition held in Lugano, Switzerland, is elegantly catalogued in Jean-Michel Basquiat (Skira).

Those with a passion for fine living will find inspiration in Slim Aarons's latest collection of photographs, A Place in the Sun (Abrams), which takes you from an ivy-covered pink palace in Capri to the white-and-gold striped cabanas at the Beverly Hills Hotel. For the homesick Parisian, Jacques Garcia: Decorating in the French Style (Flammarion) celebrates the famed designer's diverse projects, including Hotel Costes in Paris and the well-tended apartments at Champ de Bataille. And if it's intimacy you seek, the Los Angeles darling of decor, Kelly Wearstler, invites you into her family's colorful Hillcrest Estate in Domicilium Decoratus (ReganBooks).

All kinds of glamour can be found in Ezra Petronio's Bold & Beautiful (Steidl/7L), a veritable face book of who's who in the fashion industry, featuring his Polaroids of models, designers, fashion editors, and writers. The lavish Louis Vuitton (Abrams), by Paul-Gerard Pasols, recounts how a luxury luggage brand rose from its trunk-making origins to having one of today's most coveted monograms. A lush chronicle of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period, Moonage Daydream (Universe) brings together photographs by Mick Rock with musings by Bowie on his glam-rock stagewear. Madeleine Vionnet (Chronicle Books) is a chic tome, by Betty Kirke, of the designer's invaluable oeuvre, rich with patterns, one-of-a-kind drawings, and archival images.

Fashion is abundant in a top crop of new photography books. Blood Sweat and Tears (teNeues), an opus spanning 30 years of Bruce Weber's career, includes his famous shot of the Duchess of Devonshire wearing a Jean Patou gown while feeding her chickens. A Gun for Hire (Taschen), named for what Helmut Newton once called himself, includes some of his best editorial work for fashion houses from Biba in the 1960s to Thierry Mugler and Versace campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as Newton's ...