From South America to Paris and Biarritz – pioneering an aesthetic of subtractions

elegance meant elimination, a purification of the classic bourgeois décor. Indienne Eugenia Errázuriz, shaped and changed the taste of modern art with her purist motto: throw out and keep throwing out

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