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Waal Edmund

    Edmund de Waal se describe a sí mismo como un 'alfarero que escribe'. Sus obras de porcelana se exhiben en numerosas colecciones de museos de todo el mundo, y recientemente creó una importante instalación para la cúpula del Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres. De Waal se formó como alfarero, estudió en Japón y leyó Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Cambridge. Su libro más personal, 'El liebre con los ojos de ámbar', ofrece un viaje a través de la historia familiar a través de objetos.

    The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance
    Letters to Camondo
    • Letters to Camondo

      • 182 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-semitism. Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art for his son to inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and, on the Count's death, was bequeathed to France. The Musée Nissim de Camondo has remained unchanged since 1936. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family story. In a haunting series of letters addressed to the Count, he tells us what happened next.

      Letters to Camondo2022
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    • Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

      The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance2011
      3,9