Meaning of Home - Couverture rigide

Heathcote, Edwin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0711233772 ISBN 13 : 9780711233775

Editeur : Frances Lincoln, 2012

Synopsis

We are so familiar with the features of our homes, the myriad little decorative details, that we have forgotten how to see them. We might look at a church, read a book or watch a film and attempt to understand its symbolism and its references, but we rarely look at our homes in the same light. Yet from the most ordinary apartment to the most extravagant mansion, every home is a deep well of echoes. Windows to wardrobes, fireplaces to door knockers, Edwin Heathcote attempts to fathom the elements of our everyday domestic lives.

The Meaning of Home explores how we build our houses on the souls of our ancestors: how ritual and symbolic elements transmute over time into practical features, and how often this symbolic charge ensures that those features last long after their practical uses are forgotten. After reading this scintillating book, home will never look quite the same again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edwin Heathcote is the architecture correspondent for the Financial Times. He is the author of Contemporary Church Architecture, London Caffs and Furniture + Architecture of which Blueprint wrote €œOccasionally you come across a book that does everything it claims – and then some. This is one€�

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Frances Lincoln
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0711233772
• ISBN 13: 9780711233775
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible