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- Author: Witold Rybczynski
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Nonfiction
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Manners or customs, Social life, Home, Lifestyles, Popular culture, Houses, mansions, or manors, Research, Architecture or architects
HOME COMFORTH would be a more appropriate title for this engagingly written and well-organized book. “Domestic well-being,” Rybczynski asserts, “is a fundamental human need.” Yet contemporary architects and interior designers give less consideration to matters of comfort than to decor, efficiency, and convenience. Comfort being an elusive concept, the author suggests that history can offer guidance, not so much from a stylistic point of view but in regard to the idea itself.
Gleaning material from the paintings of Dutch masters, the theories of French architects, the...
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