Knick-Knacks: Household Items In Photographs And Memories Of The Late XIX - Early XX Century by Elena Lavrent'eva

Flea markets, antique furniture shops, antique shops - all of these sales outlets are united by one thing: they sell the story of things. And "spoon-matryoshka" of 60s, and a masterpiece of painting the 17th century can always find your admirer, and, consequently, the buyer. Today this business is the wave of popularity. And not only from buyers, but also from businessmen.

But often, people today and even collectors are faced with the fact that they can not understand - what was intended this or that old thing. Kopoushko, snuffers with candles, the page for the friction, road sand box, a brush for cleaning combs whisk for hats ...

Beauty in Exile and Russian Fashion: 150 Years in Photographs by A. Vassiliev

Alexandre Vassiliev is an internationally acclaimed French costume and set designer as well as being a fashion historian. He was born in Moscow in 1958 into a celebrated family of artists. His late father designed for the Bolshoi Theatre, his mother was an actress.

First let me introduce Russian book by A. Vassiliev "Beauty in Exile". The book is intended for anyone interested in history, art, fashion.

"Beauty in Exile" - a journey in time, which invites the reader a well-known fashion historian and collector Alexander Vassiliev. The author tells fascinating stories about the world of Western fashion and the role played in it our compatriots, for various reasons have left Russia. It is difficult to recover the past: lost documents, leaving the living witnesses, the forgotten language of the time. However, in the book Alexander Vassilievmagically transferred to the seemingly elusive atmosphere of bygone decades.