ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

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.

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.

* 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.

Slim Aarons: Style showcases the photographs that both recorded and influenced the luminaries of the fashion world. This collectible volume features luscious early black-and-white fashion photography, as well as color portraits of the fashionable elite—like Jacqueline de Ribes, C.Z. Guest, Nan Kempner, and Marisa Berenson—and those that designed the clothes, such as Oscar de la Renta, Emilio Pucci, Mary McFadden, and Lilly Pulitzer. ​Featuring a number of never-before-seen images and detailed captions written by fashion historians, Slim Aarons: Style is a collection of the photographer’s most stylish work. Slim Aarons, at least according to the man himself, did not photograph fashion: “I didn’t do fashion. I did the people in their clothes that became the fashion.” But despite what he claimed, Aarons’s work is indelibly tied to fashion. Aarons’s incredibly influential photographs of high society and socialites being unambiguously themselves are still a source of inspiration for modern day style icons. This coffee table book is perfect for sharing, displaying, and gifting.