Rio de Janeiro’s Unique Glamour Is on Full Display in This New Book

There’s a reason they call Rio de Janeiro the Marvelous City. To behold the curved coastline, the dramatic dips and peaks of the mountainous landscape covered in rainforest foliage, is a marvel all its own. It’s the people though—surfing at sunset, shimmying to the sounds of samba, cheering in raucous glory as their soccer team scores—that make it feel truly marvelous.

I lived in the city for a year nearly a decade ago, and the city’s name still evokes a knee-jerk feeling of wonder for me. So I was excited to speak to Bruno Astuto (himself a Carioca, a Rio de Janeiro local), who authored Assouline’s latest destination coffee table book, Rio de Janeiro. It’s a feast for the eyes, bursting at the seams with feathers and sequins and…