Aleksey NilovEditor-in-Chief · L'Officiel Hommes UAParis
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Les MoujiksL'Art de vivre
The art of survival keeps crowding out the art of living. That is exactly why art de vivre has become a form of inner resistance.
Text: Aleksey Nilov
Les Moujiks · L'Art de vivre · Aleksey Nilov
The world changes by the minute, and we change with it. Art de vivre is an underrated genre of existence — one in which self-sufficiency, taste and attention to detail become the ground you stand on.
This book is about aesthetics as support and beauty as a way of holding firm: making a home and a life, reading antiques and culture, building a library and a wardrobe, caring for yourself and the rooms you live in, shaping an olfactory world, receiving guests, and finding joy in the rituals of the ordinary.
A richly illustrated edition in which I open the doors to my own world — rare finds, personal histories, recipes, observations, and thoughts on living beautifully in spite of the circumstances.
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The editions
Les MoujiksL'Art de vivre
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Home, antiques, the table, the wardrobe, scent, receiving — the art of living, written from the inside.
“Beauty is not decoration. It is a way of holding firm.”
Contents
Home
Rooms, antiques, and the things worth keeping
The table
Bureau Gourmet — dinners, porcelain, crystal
Wardrobe
Tailoring, the houses, Paris fashion week
Scent & care
Building an olfactory world
Books
Assembling a library worth the shelf
Work, work
From inside the masthead
The editor
Fifteen years in media, from reporter to the masthead of L'Officiel Hommes — the fashion magazine for educated men — and editorial director of Babylon Publishing House, where the Ukrainian editions of L'Officiel are made.
I make magazines meant to be relevant and timeless at once: the canons of classical beauty, intellect, the art of living. Multi-themed almanacs, the heroes and authors worth printing, the advertising concepts for the houses that define the luxury segment in Ukraine.
A love for the table produced Bureau Gourmet — a television programme on Menu TV, cooking classes, dinner parties, cookbooks. Over 5,000 students have taken my course at the Free School of Journalism. In Ukraine I work as ambassador for the maisons I write about.
