BELLAS ARTES

How do you make your home come alive with personality, charm, and memory? In the introduction to Sean Scherer’s first book, Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors, Anderson Cooper writes, “Scherer has a unique ability to place otherwise ordinary objects in a completely unexpected context or grouping and in so doing change the way you see them.” In Sean Scherer’s Vignettes, Scherer focuses in on the art of combining common objects into aesthetically pleasing groupings, or vignettes. Contending that a vignette can set the whole mood and tone of a room, he shows you how to use any surface in your home, from a tabletop to a bookshelf to a wall, to create lively displays of your favorite items. Beautifully illustrated with Scherer’s own photographs, the book demonstrates how to balance color, texture, and shape, and provides lessons on how to create both symmetrical and asymmetrical vignettes.

Una selección de las series que han marcado un hito y han cambiado el panorama audiovisual de los últimos años. Y con ellas algunas de las curiosidades más sosrprendentes de un género que parece augurar una larga y saludable vida.

Evens has long been considered one of the country’s leading contemporary architects who aspires to create the complete living environment, in the same vein as Gil Schafer, Bobby McAlpine, Ray Booth, and Stanley Dixon. His inspiration is drawn from classical traditions and informed by contemporary indoor-outdoor life—in this case the indoor-outdoor life of California.

Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art object and deeply ordinary, shoes tell the story of shifting attitudes toward desire, power, and wealth throughout history. Lace up for a journey through the most enviable shoe closet from the permanent collection at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology— and four centuries of fashion’s hardest working accessory.Featuring designs from the likes of Salvatore Ferragamo, Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahník, and Roger Vivier, Shoes A–Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT celebrates fashion’s most revolutionary and coveted labels with more than 400 styles selected from the Museum’s pristinely preserved collection. Texts from Daphne Guinness, Valerie Steele, Colleen Hill, and The Museum’s expert team of curators explore the unique legacy of each of the featured designers and the lasting cultural impact of the shoe. Also featured are custom illustrations by Robert Nippoldt. Exclusive access to original sketches, advertisements, and photographs from the designers’ private archives further illuminate the genius behind the functional, sculptural delights we cannot live without. Also available as Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, including three prints by Manolo Blahník created exclusively for this edition with a hallmark stamp.

* Un cofre del tesoro rebosante de historias olvidadas sobre las joyas que han acompañado al ser humano desde los albores del tiempo, de la mano de la experta en joyería Carol Woolton. Indaga en la historia y el significado cultural del ornamento humano, en una narración abundante en detalles y anécdotas variopintas. Carol Woolton, experta en historia de las joyas, directora de Joyería en la edición británica de Vogue y presentadora de un pódcast especializado, es la guía perfecta en este largo viaje con siete paradas: aretes, sortijas, cuentas, dijes, broches, brazaletes y tocados. Una inmersión en culturas de todo el mundo y todas las épocas para narrar la fascinante historia de los torques de plata vikingos, el jade imperial chino, los anillos posies del siglo xvi, las gemas naturales, los motivos de serpiente, los camafeos romanos, las joyas de boda hindúes, el oro etrusco, las monedas de la Grecia clásica, los piercings, las tiaras o las tobilleras.an cautivador y resplandeciente como sus protagonistas, este libro hará las delicias de todo amante de la joyería.