Luxury publisher and lifestyle retailer with design-forward books and home goods
Assouline is a design-led luxury publisher and retailer built around visually distinctive books on culture, art, and lifestyle, extended into candles, leather goods, and furniture. The stack—InDesign, Photoshop, NetSuite, SAP—reflects a hybrid operation balancing creative production with wholesale and retail fulfillment. Active adoption of generative tools (Midjourney, Sora, ChatGPT) alongside traditional Adobe workflows signals a shift toward faster creative iteration and campaign production, while pain points around inventory replenishment and supply-chain visibility indicate scaling challenges typical of multi-channel luxury retail.
Notable leadership hires: Art Director
Assouline operates as an independent luxury publisher and lifestyle brand founded in 1994, with a catalog exceeding 1,000 titles spanning architecture, art, design, fashion, photography, and travel. The product ecosystem now extends beyond books into scented candles, leather accessories, library furnishings, and a furniture collection. Distribution spans owned boutiques, high-end wholesale partners, and direct-to-consumer via assouline.com. The company is headquartered in New York with 51–200 employees and maintains hiring presence across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France.
Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) for core creative production, paired with NetSuite and SAP for wholesale and retail operations. They're also adopting Midjourney, Sora, and ChatGPT for campaign and content creation.
Based in New York. Active hiring spans the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France across design, sales, marketing, finance, and operations roles.
Projects include luxury book publishing, retail activations and in-store merchandising, 360° seasonal brand campaigns, wholesale client programs, sales analytics, inventory management, and workflow automation to support international growth.