Dress
Geneviève Antoine Dariaux
A Guide to Elegance
The directrice of Nina Ricci's Paris couture salons on how to dress, how to choose, and why it matters. Sixty-two alphabetical entries, from Accessories to Zoology.
Doubleday
New York
MCMLXIV
The Reading List
7 Books at the Foundation.
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Beauty
Daisy Fancourt
Art Cure
The empirical case — from 30,000 studies — that sustained engagement with art is a pillar of health: the science behind what elegance already knows about beauty and well-being.
Celadon Books
Cornerstone
MMXXV
Philosophy
Francis-Noël Thomas
& Mark Turner
Clear and Simple as the Truth
The argument that writing is a conceptual stand, not a skill — and that classic style, like elegance, is a discipline of selection: the refusal of the superfluous.
Princeton
University Press
MCMXCIV
Beauty
Mark Dooley
Conversations with Roger Scruton
The most candid account of Scruton's intellectual life — architecture, music, religion, beauty, and the philosophy of home — in his own words, at Sunday Hill Farm.
Bloomsbury
Continuum
MMXVI
Music
Roger Scruton
The Aesthetics of Music
On what it means to hear music as music — as a sequence of intentions rather than a sequence of sounds, and why the disciplined ear is a moral achievement.
Oxford
University Press
MCMXCVII
Beauty
Roger Scruton
Beauty — A Very Short Introduction
The philosophical case that beauty is not decoration but judgement — a quiet act of recognition in which a particular thing is permitted to stand for the order it belongs to.
Oxford
University Press
MMIX
Interiors
Edith Wharton
& Ogden Codman Jr.
The Decoration of Houses
The argument that proportion, not ornament, governs a room — and that a house must be settled architecturally before it is furnished.
Charles Scribner's Sons
MDCCCXCVII