Dé-boutonner la mode. Proche et Moyen Orient the little things that surround

the little things that surround us

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Encyclopedia of art photography n°09 January 1936: The art of ancient Mesopotamia at the Louvre Museum IV

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death

Dé-boutonner la mode. Proche et Moyen Orient the little things that surroundThere 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