Shoes: Objects of Art and Seduction
by: Caovilla, Paola Buratto

Hardcover. Milan/NY, Skira/Abbeville, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages illustrated in color. A whimsical flight of fancy through the world of shoes, wanderings through all manner of spheres, including history and the art of shoemaking, fashion shows and the most hidden desires of foot fetishists, theatre to workshop.This notebook, part-fashion book, part-history book, achieves the synthesis of a period of the author's professional and private life, stirred by the impulse to communicate to others the feeling that continues to inspire her research, and which connects all the parts of the book by a common theme: passion. Clean copy.