Knokke Le Zoute

About the book

Knokke Le Zoute is Assouline's tribute to one of the most elegant seaside resorts on the Belgian coast. Written by American journalist Adam Robb, whose work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine, the volume follows a long weekend in a town that has long drawn visitors from Antwerp and Brussels in search of something slower and more discreet. Keith Haring once spent summers painting on this stretch of the Flemish coast, and that blend of artistic spirit and quiet refinement runs through the whole book.

Across 288 pages and more than 150 illustrations, the title captures the rituals that define Knokke-Le-Zoute: golf cart tours along the dunes, lunches of fresh North Sea prawns, afternoons among contemporary art galleries, stroopwafels at the nostalgic Marie Siska café, and summers at the Royal Zoute Golf Club. Robb presents Knokke as a place built on restraint, where a taste for the fantastic meets a preference for staying unnoticed, from its white villas and manicured hedges to its wide beach and refined coastal lifestyle.

Part of Assouline's Classics Collection, the book is bound as a linen hardcover in the publisher's signature oversized format, pairing striking photography with Robb's narrative. It is a portrait of a resort that turns elegance into an everyday habit, and a fitting keepsake for anyone drawn to the charm of the Belgian coast.