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French artist, designer, and talented antique hunter Marin Montagut celebrates the joy of collecting everything from textiles to barware to architectural details, taking readers inside a dozen private homes, flea markets, and unusual ateliers to discover the most whimsical treasure troves in France. From a film prop house’s array of leather sporting goods and playing cards to a travel buff’s vintage maps and globes, and from a sculpture studio’s Grecian plaster casts to an amateur designer’s spiral staircase models, and from Montagut’s own wonder wall assemblages to a cook’s haven filled with porcelain dessert molds and copper pots—objects, when presented together as a series, create unforgettable interiors that radiate charm. Inspiration comes in repetition: wooden zigzag rulers with engraved numbers aligned on a wall in a herringbone pattern create an artful space. The spare wooden forms of capipotes—devotional statues used in religious processions, their eyes turned heavenward in ecstasy—and silver ex-votos can be the point of departure for the theme of an entire room. Montagut’s mood boards for each chapter provide endless ideas for the home.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann Sr., his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr., Fallingwater is lauded for its architectural daring and drama. Here the Kaufmanns sought to live in harmony with the natural world. The rooms of the house reflect this ideal and remain suffused with a natural aesthetic that embraces stone and wood, handwork and craftsmanship. In the living room, the great stone floor flows riverlike toward the horizon of Wright–designed built-in sofas and large-paned casement windows, where views open to balconies, to forest, and to cascading falls. From here “the hatch” opens to the flowing stream below. Pools and the waters of Bear Run were beautiful and for swimming. Relaxed elegance was the order of the day. Delicacy, softness, tactility are everywhere in evidence.

A fashion icon in her own right, Keaton amusingly revisits and reflects on some of her favorite and not-so-favorite fashion moments over the decades, from childhood homemade outfits to red carpet ensembles and street style experiments she tried from the 1960s until today. Since she could remember, Keaton has been fascinated by clothing and style. As a little girl, she would pick out patterns and request that her mother make her custom outfits. This was the beginning of a love affair with clothes and looks, and sometimes, fashion. From the outset of her acting career in the 1970s, the legendary star has experimented and thought outside the lines of what a Hollywood icon should wear and still became lauded as a style icon by Vogue, W, The Hollywood Reporter, and countless fashion websites. Keaton’s style is at once timeless, experimental, bold, effortless, androgynous, quirky, and utterly and distinctly her own.

Este libro, creado a partir de más de cuarenta horas de conversaciones íntimas con el periodista Seán O’Hagan, es una exploración profundamente reflexiva, en palabras del propio Cave, de lo que realmente impulsa su vida y creatividad. En él, el músico habla de fe, arte, música, libertad, duelo y amor. Se sumerge con total franqueza en su vida, desde su infancia temprana hasta la actualidad, en sus amores, su ética del trabajo y la profunda transformación que ha sufrido su existencia en los últimos años. Fe, esperanza y carnicería es un estallido de esperanza e inspiración de un verdadero visionario.

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La música andalusí, como género emanado de una civilización avanzada, y creado primordialmente, por un filósofo racionalista como lo era Avempace, goza de una coherencia inteligible en todos sus aspectos estructurales. Por dicha razón, el análisis filosófico del mismo se revela posible, y capaz de aportar no solo una visión racional de sus melodías y aspectos culturales, sino también el cómo tratarlos y a fín de gozar del mismo sin alterar su esencia. En Filosofía de la música andalusí, el célebre músico y musicólogo tetuaní Amin Chachoo realiza un recorrido histórico por la música andalusí, desde sus orígenes más remotos en el mundo árabe oriental y el mundo grecolatino occidental, hasta la era contemporánea. Un análisis de las melodías andalusíes en base a la filosofía de su autor, quién no solo define los estados de los seres y su devenir, sino también una cierta jerarquía de los intelectos que se revela estar en armonía con las diferentes dimensiones de la música andalusí, en sus vertientes estática y dinámica.