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Home: A Short History of an Idea Paperback - 1987
by Witold Rybczynski
This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing people's attitudes about convenience, decor, and technology in home design and furnishing. 10 black-and-white illustrations.
Summary
You'll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries and wall-to-wall carpeting, discover how some of our most welcome luxuries were born of architectural necessity, and much more. Most of all, Home opens a rare window into our private livesand how we really want to live.
First line
We've all seen this comfortable man; his face looks out from the advertising pages of magazines.
Details
- Title Home: A Short History of an Idea
- Author Witold Rybczynski
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1987-07-07
- ISBN 9780140102314 / 0140102310
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.09 x 0.76 in (19.71 x 12.93 x 1.93 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Architecture and society, Dwellings - Psychological aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86030398
- Dewey Decimal Code 728.019
Media reviews
People
"Rybczynski's style is as loose and, yes, as comfortable as a down-filled comforter."
The Christian Science Monitor
"Sensible and stylish"
Newsweek
"It's a bracing, irreverent, worldly wise book."
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Home is serious, historically minded, and exquisitely readable. It is a triumph of intelligence."
The New Yorker
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 05/29/1987, Page 0
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