Meaning of Home - Hardcover

Heathcote, Edwin

 
9780711233775: Meaning of Home
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0711233772 ISBN 13: 9780711233775
Verlag: Frances Lincoln, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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€

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Verlag
Frances Lincoln
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0711233772
ISBN 13 
9780711233775
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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