Eating is a social ritual. From dinner dates to everyday suppers, casual picnics to lavish feasts, dining brings people together for far more than satisfying the needs of the body. For centuries, cutlery has served as extensions of our hands, enriching how we experience food and the act of eating. Knives, forks, and spoons come between hand and mouth, articulating the experience of dining. Accompanying an exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (May 5-October 29, 2006), Feeding Desire is the ...
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Eating is a social ritual. From dinner dates to everyday suppers, casual picnics to lavish feasts, dining brings people together for far more than satisfying the needs of the body. For centuries, cutlery has served as extensions of our hands, enriching how we experience food and the act of eating. Knives, forks, and spoons come between hand and mouth, articulating the experience of dining. Accompanying an exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (May 5-October 29, 2006), Feeding Desire is the first book to showcase the Museum's astonishing permanent collection of American and European cutlery. Complementing and expanding on the content of the exhibition, seven original essays, accompanied by over two hundred lavish color and black-and-white illustrations, relate the surprisingly different histories of the knife, spoon, and fork, and reveal how cutlery has influenced food, fashion, design, mobility, hygiene, and consumption over the centuries. In addition, Feeding Desire looks toward the future of the tools of the table as we progress into the twenty-first century.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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New. 2843238455. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--288 pp. With 375 ills. (359 col. ). 31 x 25 cm. --with a bonus offer--
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As New. Folio, 288pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition of this wonderful survey of how people ate and the tools they used for the last five hundred years. Bound in brown cloth with titles blind-stamped on front board and spine. Illustrations throughout. Square tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Came directly in publisher's shipping box. A gorgeous collectable copy. Please note: This is a very large, heavy book. International and Priority orders will require additional postage.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. (USA) Stated 1st edition No markings touch of rubbing to foot of spine otherwsie Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to foot and head of spine; some rubbing to panel gloss. Hardcvoer, 288pp, index, lots of B&W and colour photos and illus. This book traces the hsitory of Western table implements, how they were manufactured and used, their effects on table manners and table settings, the sexual politics of cutlery, modern faltware. (5.5 JM HOZ 403/b3.
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NF but for dings to lower front corners of cover. in VG+ but for light wear to top edge. jacket. Chocolate brown boards with blind stamp lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on spice spine. 288 pp. with over 200 color and bw images. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. "Explores the evolution, physical forms and social meanings of eating utensils over the past five centuries." The book's main focus is cutlery from Europe and the US that is in the museum's permanent collection. With seven essays that "reveal changing ideas about food, fashion, decoration, mobility, hygiene, and consumption." Makes you want to get out the family silver and have a feast! Gorgeous and enlightening.