Hints on household taste in furniture, upholstery, and other details

New furniture was the first consumer durable to be successfully diffused to a mass (middle- and working-class) market in Britain. This chapter charts how a small number of furnitur...

This chapter explores the furniture music of French composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). Satie's pieces of furniture music are each fundamentally based on a short musical fragment, to ...

How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice. “I'm a householder,” the poet Robert Du...

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of class...

The textbook discusses the forms and design features of various styles of furniture, design principles and techniques of architectural and artistic solutions, materials of modern f...

In 1927 with Nancy Cook at the helm, the three friends (plus Caroline O'Day as a partner) opened a small furniture factory on site, and hired several skilled wood workmen (NYC im...

This collection presents folklore recorded by the Finnish folklorist Aukusti Robert Niemi in 1911 in Dzūkija, in the parishes of Valkininkai, Perloja, Merkinė, Nedzingė, and Marcin...

The vacuum cleaner was an archetypal new economy product of the early twentieth century. It offered both major time savings and qualitative advantages over previous household clean...