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

The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, ar...

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...

Abstract This book gives an account of Clement of Alexandria’s Paedagogus as a programme in the formation of the judgement of taste, and puts this in critical dialog...

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...

This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed throu...

Tommy Simpson almost singlehandedly changed the direction of the Studio Furniture field. Trained as an artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Tommy exhibited at ...