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Book The World of Departures

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  • Author : Richard David Story
  • Publisher : Assouline Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-01
  • ISBN : 161428265X
  • Pages : 6 pages

Download or read book The World of Departures written by Richard David Story and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, Entertaining, Enlightening, En Point: Departures magazine believes that the best is defined not by its price tag but by its quality, rarity, and truly one-of-a-kind discoveries. Explore the world through the eyes of this luxury lifestyle magazine—seen until now only by American Express Platinum and Centurion card members who receive the publication. It’s the definitive source for travel, art, culture, and design presented through serious journalism and mindblowing photography. The World of Departures celebrates the magazine’s twenty-five years with the best of its awardwinning articles, photography, and illustrations. Travel from Richard David Story’s first issue following 9/11 from the Elephant Festival in Jaipur to to Big Horn, Montana, for the annual Crow Fair, a weeklong celebration and powwow, and as described by photographer Lisa Eisner, “…the Native American version of the Paris couture shows, only better because the regalia are delicately hand-stitched by mothers and grandmothers and passed down for generations.”

Book Every Day I Write the Book

Download or read book Every Day I Write the Book written by Amitava Kumar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book's pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Kumar's own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere.

Book Maison

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  • Author : Herbert J. M. Ypma
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780500511626
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Maison written by Herbert J. M. Ypma and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight recent and previously unpublished residential design projects, including a modernist retreat on the Galician coast and an eighteenth-century Bavarian timber farmhouse, are captured in a study covering the work of interior designer Christian Liaigre.

Book The Maison Premiere Almanac

Download or read book The Maison Premiere Almanac written by Joshua Boissy and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful, imaginative, and thoroughly original cocktail compendium and bartending manual with 90 drink recipes from the popular and influential Brooklyn bar and restaurant. A major player in both the craft cocktail revival and the bar and restaurant renaissance, Maison Premiere offers an immersive experience that channels a time when cocktails were not merely a pleasure but an essential part of daily life in late-nineteenth-century New York, New Orleans, and Paris. As captivating as the bar itself, The Maison Premiere Almanac is both a visual delight—drawing on photography, illustration, and graphic design—and a detailed guide to the rarefied subjects that make Maison Premiere unique, including deep explorations into the art of the cocktail and cutting-edge bartending techniques and equipment. There are also primers on absinthe (a Maison specialty) and recipes for highly refined cocktails, including martinis, toddys, punches, and mint juleps. Tutorials on oysters include how to confidently select and prepare them at home and how to eat them with style. The Almanac is packed with curious information and useful knowledge on cocktails and bartending for both enthusiastic beginner bartenders and seasoned cocktail lovers.

Book Music at the Maison royale de Saint Louis at Saint Cyr

Download or read book Music at the Maison royale de Saint Louis at Saint Cyr written by Deborah Kauffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr — the famous convent school founded by Madame de Maintenon and established by Louis XIV in 1686 as a royal foundation — is both rich and intriguing; its large repertory of music was composed expressly for young female voices by important composers working within significant contemporary musical genres: liturgical chant, sacred motets, theatrical music, and cantiques spirituels. While these genres reflect contemporary styles and trends, at the same time the works themselves were made to conform to the sensibilities and abilities of their intended performers. Even as Jean-Baptiste Moreau's music for Jean Racine’s biblical tragedies Esther and Athalie shows a number of similarities to contemporary tragédies lyriques, it departs from that more public genre in its brevity, generally simpler solo writing, and the integral use of the chorus. The musical style of the choral numbers closely parallels that of other choral music in the repertory at Saint-Cyr. The liturgical chant sung in the church was composed by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, and is an example of plain-chant musical, a type of new ecclesiastical composition written during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, primarily for female religious communities in France. The large repertory of petits motets (short sacred Latin pieces for solo voice), mostly composed by Nivers and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, are simpler and more restrained than works by their contemporaries. A close study of the motets reveals much about changes to musical style and performance practices at Saint-Cyr during the eighteenth century. The cantique spirituel, a song with a spiritual text in the vernacular French language, played a significant role in both the education and recreation of the girls at Saint-Cyr. Cantiques composed for the girls vary widely in terms of their style and difficulty, ranging from simple strophic melodies to more sophisticated works in the style of contemporary airs. In all cases, the stylistic features of the music for Saint-Cyr reflect a careful consideration of the needs and capabilities of the young singers of the school, as well as an awareness of the rigorous requirements of Madame de Maintenon, who kept a close watch over the propriety of all things relating to the piety, behavior, and image of her charges.

Book The Maison Tellier

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  • Author : Guy De Maupassant
  • Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
  • Release : 2024-08-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book The Maison Tellier written by Guy De Maupassant and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the intriguing world of ""The Maison Tellier"" by Guy De Maupassant. This engaging short story centers around a brothel run by Madame Tellier and the surprising impact of her establishment on a small town. Maupassant’s narrative delves into themes of morality, social norms, and human nature, providing a nuanced look at the lives of those involved. De Maupassant skillfully portrays the complexities and contradictions of the characters, offering a critical yet empathetic view of societal attitudes towards vice and respectability. The story invites readers to reconsider their perceptions of morality and social boundaries. ""The Maison Tellier"" is ideal for readers who appreciate stories that challenge societal norms and explore the intersections of personal and public life. Perfect for those who value Guy De Maupassant’s sharp and insightful storytelling.

Book The Maison Sajou Sewing Book  20 projects from the famous French

Download or read book The Maison Sajou Sewing Book 20 projects from the famous French written by Lucinda Ganderton and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years the byword for pretty and refined French taste, the esteemed haberdasher Maison Sajou was founded in 1857 and today is still supplying an eager audience with the finest materials money can buy, from embroidery silks and linens to ribbons for trimming. In this, Sajou’s first sewing book, 20 gorgeous projects for the home take the reader from basic embroideries to more complex, but still achievable, endeavours. Easy-to-follow and fully illustrated instructions ensure that you can tackle all the projects, whatever your level of sewing ability.

Book An Account of the Maison de Force at Ghent  From The Philanthropist  May 1817

Download or read book An Account of the Maison de Force at Ghent From The Philanthropist May 1817 written by Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge upon the Punishment of Death, and the Improvement of Prison Discipline and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Guy de Maupassant      The heritage  The maison Tellier  Poems  and other stories

Download or read book The Works of Guy de Maupassant The heritage The maison Tellier Poems and other stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diner    la Maison

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  • Author : Laurent Buttazzoni
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2019-05-21
  • ISBN : 0847864707
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Diner la Maison written by Laurent Buttazzoni and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming approach to cooking, entertaining, and table-setting with all the chicness of Parisians at home. The Parisian dinner party is the ideal of entertaining chic: the style of the host, the quality of the food and wine, and the beauty of the setting. With this creative and invaluable book, Laurent Buttazzoni--renowned French architect, gourmand, and celebrated host of delightful dinner parties in Paris--shares his tried and true elements for Parisian entertaining.Dispelling the myths of expense and complexity that can intimidate hosts, Diner à la Maison is a guide to shopping, cooking, and entertaining the Parisian way. Led by beautiful color photographs made in the author's home, the book covers the fundamental ingredients for the pantry, followed by a guide to pairing 42 menus with it's own décor and table setting. From weekday hits to weekend entertaining, seasonal events, and holiday parties, each menu is accompanied by ideas for a decoration theme. For weeknight gathering, Buttazzoni offers simple seasonal dishes such as Watercress Soup and French Macaroni and Cheese or Rack of Lamb with Pan Juices, Green Tabbouleh, and Lemon Tart. For a more formal dinner party a menu of Belgian Endive Salad with Pears and Blue Cheese, Duck Breast à l'Orange, and Honey Glazed Turnips or Poule au Pot, Poached Vegetables, and a luscious Berry Trifle. With a candid guide to shopping for everything from good-quality groceries to eclectic tableware, as well as creative tips on the details that make any dinner party a success (pop your champagne in the freezer before guests arrive!)--and with an introduction by style icon Sofia Coppola--this book is an essential tool for all those who want to receive family and friends at home.

Book Maison Femme  A Fiction

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  • Author : Teresa Carmody
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2015-03
  • ISBN : 0991582012
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Maison Femme A Fiction written by Teresa Carmody and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maison Femme: A Fiction Teresa Carmody, text Vanessa Place, images

Book Part Architecture

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  • Author : Emma Cheatle
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-20
  • ISBN : 1317084039
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Part Architecture written by Emma Cheatle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris, and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass. Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife, Annie Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a ‘free-plan’ layout. Screened only by glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass, where Duchamp’s complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women’s domestic and maternal choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the accounts in the book is termed ‘part-architecture’. Derived from psychoanalytic theory, part-architecture fuses analytical, descriptive and creative processes, to produce a unique social and architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to the Large Glass, the book has three main chapters: ‘Glass’, ‘Dust’ and ‘Air’. Combining theory text, creative writing and drawing, each traces the history and meaning of the material and its contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the Maison de Verre. As a whole, the book contributes important and unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands definitions of architectural design and history.

Book Journal of the France America Society and Bulletin de la Maison Fran  aise

Download or read book Journal of the France America Society and Bulletin de la Maison Fran aise written by France-America Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maison Tellier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guy de Maupassant
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2016-03-31
  • ISBN : 1473360110
  • Pages : 37 pages

Download or read book The Maison Tellier written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and inherited her love of classical literature. In 1880, Maupassant published his first - and, according to many, his best - short story, entitled 'Boule de Suif' ('Ball of Fat'). It was an instant success. He went on to be extremely prolific during the 1880s, working methodically to produce up to four volumes of short fiction every year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

Book Home Sweet Maison

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danielle Postel-Vinay
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2018-03-13
  • ISBN : 0062741705
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Home Sweet Maison written by Danielle Postel-Vinay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practical illustrated lifestyle guide that shows how to enjoy la belle vie—to live like the French every day—transforming your house into a home defined by beauty, family, and accessible elegance. How do the French create the elusive and alluring sanctuaries they call home? This question long intrigued Danielle Postel-Vinay. Thanks to a chance encounter with a French expat in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and years of immersive research, she embarked on a quest to discover the secrets of the French home aesthetic. Experiencing first-hand la belle vie—the beautiful life—Postel-Vinay now shows everyone how to create their own French sanctuary, a home sweet maison, no matter where they live. Providing more than just interior decorating and design tips, Postel-Vinay teaches you how to foster the warmth, beauty, and rituals inherent in the French home and create an environment better suited to living a rich, full, connected life. At the center of the book is the idea that your house should be a reflection of you, your hobbies, your family history, your rituals, all the things that make your life unique. A happy home is a home that expresses your rituals and your taste, not one that relies on prefab décor from a mass retailer. Home Sweet Maison takes a room-by-room approach to show how the French view: The Aesthetic: why the objects in your home matter, why minimalism is overrated, and why the French always choose the perfect décor for their salons The Practical: how to use mise-en-place, or the French art of organization, in your kitchen, and how to find the right stain-removing potions to create your own French laundry The Sensual: the way the French employ scent in their home as a personal signature The Philosophical: the idea that every room in a French house has a specific purpose, and that the activity in one room should never bleed into the others Home Sweet Maison encapsulates the very heart of the French way of seeing the world: set the table formally, adhere to all the conventions of ritual and tradition, then take pleasure in indulgence. It’s about using French concepts and routines to change our homes, our relationships, and our lives for the better.

Book Margiela Hermes Years

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  • Author : Rebecca Arnold
  • Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
  • Release : 2018-09
  • ISBN : 9789401452366
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Margiela Hermes Years written by Rebecca Arnold and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Margiela's pioneering and timeless designs made for the luxury house of Hermès between 1997 and 2003 are the stars of this book, highlighting this period in the iconic and enigmatic Belgian designer's career. The first edition was published to accompany an exhibition in the Modemuseum Antwerp. The new edition, accompanying the exhibition in Paris, includes images from the Antwerp exhibition, and more extensive essays by Rebecca Arnold, Kaat Debo and Sarah Mower, and a foreword by Suzy Menkes.This key period between 20th- and 21st-century fashion is evoked through interviews with Margiela's closest collaborators. Never-before-published material from the Maison Martin Margiela archives, numerous striking and exquisitely refined images from Le Monde d'Hermès, as well as new photographic material tell the story of Margiela's supreme wardrobe for Hermès.

Book Maison Rouge

Download or read book Maison Rouge written by Liliane Leila Juma and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leila was 16 years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. In this gut-wrenching memoir, she gives an account of her life before and after her family was torn apart by the twin nightmares of civil war and invasion. Maison Rouge is a story of war and unspeakable loss. It is also the story of survival. Eventually, through the United Nations refugee programme, Leila and her family were finally able to relocate to Canada.