Dé-boutonner la mode. Proche et Moyen Orient by hinting at what is

by hinting at what is profound

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death

he took his prints and covered them with ink

laughter for Democritus

Excerpt from the “Archaeological Review or collection of documents and memoirs relating to the study of monuments

Dé-boutonner la mode. Proche et Moyen Orient by hinting at what isThere are objects with which we maintain delicate relationships, between consciousness and emotion. In more than one way, the button is one of those, one of those that we sometimes keep, without really knowing why, at the bottom of a pocket or in a box. On a garment, whether masculine or feminine, its role is far from trivial: an element structuring the balance of forms, it resonates with a line, that of a buttonhole, a seam or that of the garment