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Table of Contents: Translator's Foreword
Part I: Clearing the ground
The Sense of the Absolute in Religions
Diversity of Revelation
Is There a Natural Mysticism?
Vicissitudes of Spiritual Temperaments
The Doctrine of Illusion
II. Gnosis
Gnosis: Language of the Self
The Ternary Aspect of the Human Microcosm
Love of God, Consciousness of the Real
Seeing God Everywhere
III. The Christian Tradition
Some Observations
Christic and Virginal Mysteries
Of the Cross
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The first book to focus on the solo residential work of the visionary interior decorator Stephen Sills. Simultaneously classical and modern, Stephen Sills’s design work is a dialogue between past and present. Filled with luxurious fabrics, furnishings from across centuries, and unusual finishes, his work is polished, seemingly effortless, and quietly rich, with a muted color palette that serves as a brilliant foil for modern art. In this striking, meditative volume, the follow-up to his best-selling book Dwellings, Sills presents sixteen breathtaking homes, gorgeously photographed by the legendary François Halard, in locations as varied as a penthouse on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, a modern Aspen retreat, an estate on the North Shore of Long Island, and his own country house in Bedford, New York (dubbed the "chicest house in America" by Karl Lagerfeld). Common to them all is a sense of atmosphere, point of view, and soul—the sense of a master craftsman at work.… (more)