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Habit - Habitat: Christa de Carouge

Author Blaser, Werner
Publisher Lars Müller Publishers
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ISBN / ASINB0025VL9FC
ISBN-13978B0025VL9F6
Sales Rank2,978,544
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

Description

"Clothing as housing, the shell in which we live and breathe" is the credo of Swiss fashion designer Christa de Carouge. Her creations, usually made of black shimmering silk in simple drapes that caress the wearer, combine comfort with individuality and aesthetic beauty.

Architecture expert Werner Blaser explores the designer's work, aesthetics, and philosophy, as well as discussing her debt to Mies van der Rohe's "less is more" and to Le Corbusier's fabric collages.