Everything Else is Bric-a-brac

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Everything Else is Bric-a-brac
Akiko Busch, Aurore de la Morinerie
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Hardback
h178 x 127mm - 176pg
27 Oct 2022 US
International import eta 10-19 days
9781648961502
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A collection of 60 short essays by best-selling author and culture and design critic Akiko Busch, in her classic style of observation, that reflect on the human condition and offer the promise of calm and insight. Akiko Busch writes on the topics of culture, design, and nature. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years and has also written regular columns and essays for such publications as The New York Times, House & Garden, Architectural Record, Dwell, New York Magazine, and Travel & Leisure, among others. She offers intimate, reflective observations of the human condition in this collection of short works, touching on themes of faith, love, loss, disaster, anticipation, obscurity, and utility. These sixty short pieces explore the mystery of place, memory, and what it is about domestic life that is both settling and unsettling alike. In a world of text messages and instant information, Busch' s style of observation reminds the reader to slow down, take in, and live in the moment.
"Akiko Busch' s short prose pieces are precise, evocative, honest, and graceful. In one essay she writes that ". . . there is a thin line between what is ordinary and extraordinary" and in Everything Else is Bric-a-Brac, I found myself in an extraordinary world of the everyday as seen through her eyes. The momentum of the writing carried me the way that poems can, taking me to new and unexpected places of depth and resonance. " - Stuart Kestenbaum, Author and Maine Poet Laureate (2016-2021)
Akiko Busch writes about design, culture, and nature for a variety of publications. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for twenty years, and her essays have appeared in numerous national magazines, newspapers, and exhibition catalogues. Currently she is on the faculty of the MA Design Research program at the School of Visual Arts. Aurore de La Morinerie is a French artist and illustrator who works and lives in Paris. She first began taking calligraphy and Chinese painting classes while studying Fashion design at the Ecole superieure des Arts appliques Duperre, in Paris. She collaborates with world-renowned brands and is a regular contributor to the New York Times' T Magazine, the American and British issues of Harper' s Bazaar, AD Magazine, ELLE France, as well as Le Monde' s weekly supplement issue.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781648961502
Published: 27 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Princeton Architectural Press
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 178mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 176

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