Posts Tagged ‘Eric Karpeles’
Timeless Style: The Best Holiday Art, Architecture & Design Books To Give and Receive this Season
15Dec08
By Emily Waldorf With one scandal unraveling after another and the increasingly frightening economic situation, escaping into the pages of a beautifully bound and illustrated book is a simple and relatively inexpensive pleasure that feels right this holiday season. Well-edited art, design, and architecture books never go out of style and serve the dual purpose […]
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Tags: best architecture books, best design books, best holiday art books, Eric Karpeles, Portfolio.com, Sarah Thornton, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
By Emily Waldorf Have you ever confused beauty with virtue? One of Marcel Proust’s characters, Swann, in his famous work, In Search of Lost Time, falls in love with a debaucherous courtesan, Odette, when he is overcome by her similarity to a Venus-like character in a Botticelli fresco. Eric Eichman, in his article in The […]
Filed under: old masters, Paris | 8 Comments
Tags: Eric Karpeles, Erich Eichman, Paintings in Proust, Proust, Savage Lessons of Pretty Pictures