Jessica N. Berry Knihy

"Taking us from the early years of haute couture to the luxury fashion flagship stores of the present day, House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior. Berry explores how the salon, the atelier, and the boutique have allowed fashion to move beyond the aesthetics of dress, and demonstrates how these spaces continue to function as sites for performing modern, gendered identities for designers and their clientele alike. In doing so, it traces how designers including Poiret, Vionnet, Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Dior used commercial spaces and domestic interiors to enhance their credentials as connoisseurs of taste and style. Drawing on rich visual sources, this interdisciplinary study sets out fashion's links with key figures in architecture and design, including Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank. House of Fashion establishes the fashion interior as central to our understanding of intersections between dress, architecture, and style."--Page 4 de la couverture

There is always a good story in a shipwreck. The tales from survivors, or frequently from those who tried to rescue them, are often astonishing in the accounts of bravery and self-sacrifice they reveal. Britain's long maritime past can be traced through the shipwrecks off our coasts. The South Devon coast has a rich maritime past, which archaeologists have been able to link to the Bronze Age. Some of the oldest shipwrecks in Northern Europe lie off this coast and there is evidence of a seaborne prehistoric trade in metals and a later trade with Byzantium. Ships in the area helped transport troops to Brittany at the beginning of the Hundred Years War, four ships were sent to fight the Spanish Armada of 1588, and during the Second World War the area served as a staging post for the Normandy Landings. This guide, with original illustrations, is essential reading for coastal walkers and kayakers with an interest in good stories to accompany them. Rather than a blank canvas as they look out to sea, readers will be able to relive these gripping stories, seeing the shipwrecks in their mind's eye.

This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.