Alain de Botton
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1969-12-20
Place of Birth:Zurich, Switzerland
Homepage:http://www.alaindebotton.com
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Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting (2014)
The history of still life painting with oil paints

Status Anxiety (2004)
Social status in a capitalistic society is a major factor in how people live their lives. This social status greatly revolves around a person’s...

The Perfect Home (2006)
Based on Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness.

The Future Is Now! (2011)
A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead...

How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day...

Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present? (2016)
The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present? (2016)

Skavlan (2009)
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in...

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness (2000)
Alain de Botton's psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded.