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In luxury, one name always comes up: Bernard Arnault. This book -Bernard Arnault- The Pursuit of Excellence: from engineering to style, talks about the man who created LVMH, the largest luxury goods company in the world and Europe's wealthiest person as well as a leader in global luxury market. Starting from his modest beginnings until becoming CEO at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton which is the biggest luxury corporation globally by sales volume and revenue figures, this publication examines Bernards commitment to perfectionism in all areas of life. It features accounts on his business strategy through purchase plans, ability to scout talented designers based off potential alone while als...
A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditional sites of popular entertainment and amusement. Although painted panoramas captivated audiences from Hamburg to Leipzig and Berlin to Vienna, relatively few people had direct access to this invention. Instead, most Germans in the early nineteenth century encountered panoramas for the first time through the written word. The panorama experience described inthis book centers on the emergence of a new type of visual language and self-fashioning in material culture adopted by Germans at the turn of the nineteenth century, one that took cues from the...
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Bibliography of publications in France, covering primarily the 18th and 19th centuries, including non-fiction, poetry, translations to French, plus works in Latin et al. Alphabetical by author (most with a few biographical words), sub-arranged by title. Some entries are followed by annotations.