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For the first time, Chanel and Jean-Paul Goude reveal the unseen drawings, collages and sketches that have inspired Goude's iconic advertising campaigns for Chanel's world famous fragrances, from 'Egoiste' and 'Coco' to 'Chanel No. 5' and the recently launched 'Chance'.Inspired by a small gold (...)

Un extraño objeto hallado entre los restos de un galeón español hundido será el punto de partida que nos llevará a descubrir un secreto que apenas aparece detallado en algunos antiguos escritos.Un objeto ha permanecido fielmente guardado durante muchos siglos: la Roca Sagrada de los caballeros (...)

Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War, and with the recent memory of the kamikaze threat from World War II, the USN placed a great priority on developing air defence cruise missiles and getting them to sea to (...)

During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. (...)

This book is about how we experience art, how we look at it, how we think about it. It is structured in the form of a series of conversations in some of the best-known museums in the world, but also outside the museums, where we often look upon art in a completely different way. The two (...)

The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin - an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal (...)

La imagen de un samurái empuñando la espada, su vida gobernada por un estricto código ético y su destreza en mortíferas artes marciales, son las ideas básicas que conforman la visión popular sobre estos guerreros.De igual manera que cautivan la moderna imaginación, los samuráis ejercieron una gran (...)

The photos in this volume were taken under studio-like conditions that are, however, always at the mercy of chance: Silvio Maraini photographed horses in their familiar surroundings, often in a riding hall, sometimes in a box or in the shade of a barn. Through reduced lighting, a calm, monochrome (...)

Qu'il s'agisse de la toute première esquisse d'une façade de cathédrale, d'un panorama de ville, d'un plan de palais ou de l'aménagement de jardins, le dessin est l'instrument incontournable des architectes à travers lequel ils documentent le passé de notre environnement ou envisagent son devenir. (...)

The enduring allure of Van Cleef & Arpels: a history of the legendary jewelerThis opulent volume presents the legendary jewelry and precious objects of the French luxury brand Van Cleef & Arpels. Published to accompany a major exhibition surveying the history of the maison at Milan's Palazzo (...)