Taste
The Secret Meaning of Things
$70.30
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2017
Summary
How do we define ‘taste’? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-19th century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of ‘good taste’ as a way of codifying middle-class mores. A century later, to talk about taste had become almost taboo, since judgments made about dress, manners, food and art can often be painfully revealing. And today? When this classic text was first published in 1991, Stephen Bayley illumina…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911422068 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911422065 |
| Author: | Stephen Bayley |
| Publisher: | Circa Press |
| Imprint: | Circa Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 870g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 160mm |
About The Author
Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, curator and founding director of the influential Design Museum in London. Over the past thirty years his writing has changed the way the world thinks about design. He is the author of Death Drive, one the most talked about books of 2016.
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