Today’s the day! Encyclopedia of the Exquisite is out. Out there. On a bookshelf near you. Finally! If I could, I’d throw a full-on confetti parade and hire a trumpet and drum band to play a fanfare. That’s not only because ‘confetti’ and ‘fanfare’ are two entries in the book, but because I feel that [...]
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In just thirty days—November 2—Encyclopedia of the Exquisite will hit bookshelves all over. Besides the big book shops, amazon.com, etc., John Derian in New York will sell Encyclopedia as will Marc Jacobs’ BookMarc. To say that I’m excited is an understatement. And along those lines, please see this month’s Vogue, where Mark Holgate mentions the [...]
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Diderot worked for twenty-six years as the editor of the monumental French Encyclopédie, producing 17 volumes of text and 11 of illustrations published between 1751 and 1772. It summed up the world’s knowledge, but its writers also challenged the beliefs of the church and, less directly, the sovereignty of the King. The books were so controversial [...]
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