Uncorked
A Corkscrew Collection
$79.95
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2020
Summary
A splendid (and giftable) visual guide to the beautifully convoluted world of corkscrews.
Ever since the standardised wine bottle came into use in the eighteenth century, thirsty people have sought a convenient means of removing its cork stopper. At first, they employed whatever was at hand – including the helical gun screws used to clean out firearms – but the patent corkscrew emerged by 1795 and soon multiplied into more permutations than the proverbial better mousetrap.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780789213778 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 078921377X |
| Author: | Marilynn Gelfman Karp |
| Publisher: | Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“Tap the history of an object, no matter how small or specialized, and it will open up the universe…The historian Marilynn Gelfman Karp … is drawn to variations on ingenuity, patina, functionality and ‘eccentricity of design’”. – The New York Times; “This catalog of her collection will surprise and amaze with the imaginative technology and artistry that have gone into the manufacture of so basic a device.” – Booklist; “…is a museum-like tour from clunky, cast steel bar top contraptions to ornate silver and ivory screw pulls to a four-part novelty corkscrew depicting the corpse of Prohibition… Uncorked is an irresistible page turner for any lover of the grape.” – Foreword Reviews;
Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Marilynn Gelfman Karp is professor emerita at New York University and a collector and historian of extraordinary objects. Her other publications include In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting.
Jeremy Franklin Brooke is professor of filmmaking at the New School, as well as the creator of the information management systems used in the preparation of Uncorked.
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