The Chelsea porcelain toys, scent-bottles, bonbonnieres, etuis, seals and statuettes

The handbook is composed of chapters by authors who discuss the important features of particular types of toys, provide information related to the developmental importance of this ...

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play.It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic mean...

This chapter focuses on a single flower scent—the tuberose—strongly associated with the fragrance of Victorian decadence. Contrasting with the more delicate scent of the violet exp...

This chapter focuses on the fragrance of single flower—the violet—which although often associated with the modest Victorian maiden, has an alternative literary genealogy that links...

By placing medieval sealing practices in a global and comparative perspective, the essays gathered in this volume challenge the traditional understanding of seals as tools of closu...

This book unfolds the theory of enduramorphosis, an emergent strangeness that arises in an endurance performance when the body is pushed to its limit and reacts. ...

The output consists of the installation of a group of 105 photographs and 11 sets of objects. The subject of the research was the Kindergarten as conceived and founded by German pe...