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Chronicling the birth of haute couture and haute cuisine, this illustrated account documents how the young, charismatic, and attractive King Louis XIV—the first man to wear silk stockings, high heels, and cover himself entirely with diamonds—played a major role in the origin of French style. This detailed analysis combines historical research with fanciful anecdotes in order to describe how the French established standards of sophistication, style, and elegance that today's international chefs, famous hairstylists, distinguished cafés, and elegant hotspots still aspire to meet. Una...

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

El libro estudia la estética, definiendo primeramente las características formales y filosófico-conceptuales de las diferentes manifestaciones artísticas sucedidas en el tiempo, desglosando la comprensión del concepto estética-belleza por medio de la realización de un análisis cronológicamente ordenado de las distintas culturas: desde el arte del hombre primitivo hasta la actualidad, favoreciendo así la com-prensión de las disímiles connotaciones de cada período cultural y precisando las necesidades que motivaron los objetivos estéticos socioculturales de los anteriores. Acorde...