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La historia de los orígenes de la casa de moda francesa y cómo un pequeño negocio familiar se convirtió en una marca cuya independencia es su mayor fortaleza. A través de imágenes de sus diseños icónicos, materiales de archivo, anuncios vintage y entrevistas inéditas, presenta el acceso a un mundo exclusivo y refinado. Revela los valores, los principios, la visión y el estilo de Hermès, que convierten a la marca en un valor absoluto y a sus apasionados y fieles clientes en la mejor estrategia de marketing posible para productos que «se venden por sí mismos sin venderlos».

La naturaleza nunca ha sido tan vibrante. Contemple la belleza y el poder del mundo natural, desde volcanes y mares tempestuosos hasta bosques resplandecientes y estrellas fugaces. Esta observación guiada de la naturaleza ofrece una forma totalmente nueva de contemplar el mundo. Un increíble compendio de la historia del mundo que nos rodea, contada a través de pinturas, dibujos, esculturas, textiles y artes decorativas.

Berggruen’s collection with more than one hundred masterpieces is a spectacular tribute to the foresight of this major player in the Paris art market during the second half of the twentieth century. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1914, he went into exile in California on the eve of World War II. He became art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and assistant to the director of the San Francisco MoMA. After the war, Berggruen returned to Europe, first to Munich as a journalist, then to Paris where he worked at the UNESCO headquarters before becoming an art dealer specialized in the graphic arts of modern artists. He quickly established contacts within the Parisian cultural scene, meeting both the artists he would represent and the poets, dealers, historians, critics, and collectors of the day. Guided by his personal tastes, he built a solid collection of twentieth-century works now housed at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin spanning the careers of Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee and including Henri Matisse’s collages and Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures. The vast ensemble was exhibited at the Orangerie in 2024 and is housed in the Berggruen Museum/Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin.

Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibilitywhether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by sleight of hand. Long before science fiction, virtual realities, video games, and the Internet, the craft of magic was the most powerful fantasy world man had ever known. As the pioneers of special effects throughout history, magicians have never ceased to mystify us by making the impossible possible. This book celebrates more than 500 years of the stunning visual culture of the worlds greatest magicians. Featuring more than 750 rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings as well as paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel among others, The Magic Book traces the history of magic as a performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s. Combining sensational images with incisive text, the book explores the evolution of the magicians craft, from medieval street performers to the brilliant stage magicians who gave rise to cinematic special effects; from the 19th centurys golden age of magic to groundbreaking daredevils like Houdini and the early 20th centurys vaudevillians.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial en el mar ofrece una perspectiva global, centrándose en las principales batallas y en las personalidades más destacadas, poniendo de manifiesto tanto su magnitud como sus interrelaciones: Scapa Flow, la batalla del Atlántico, Dunkerque, la Regia Marina de Mussolini, el poderío naval japones en el Pacífico, Pearl Harbor, la batalla de Midway o los desembarcos en el Norte de Çfrica y más tarde en Normandía. Tambien están los destacados dirigentes navales: Roosevelt y Churchill, que se autoproclamaban "hombres de la Armada", Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten o William Halsey.