Furniture, yesterday and today

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 ...

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...

The first book on active matter, an emerging field focused on programming physical materials to assemble themselves, transform autonomously, and react to information. ...

This chapter discusses Bint al-Shatiʾ's Omdurman lecture “The Arab Literary Woman Yesterday and Today,” where she reflects at length on women's literary and intellectual participat...

Fixer-Upperis the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s po...