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050 _aNA 7110 .H43 2012
100 _aHeathcote, Edwin.
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245 4 _aThe meaning of home /
_cEdwin Heathcote
260 _aLondon, United Kingdom :
_bFrances Lincoln Limited,
_cc2012
300 _a192 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c18 cm.
365 _bUSD16.07
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction: home is where the heart is -- 1. Acknowledgments -- 1. Front doors -- 2. Halls -- 3. Living rooms -- 4. Fireplaces -- 5. Mouldings -- 6. Books -- 7. Dining rooms -- 8. Kitchens -- 9. Stairs -- 10. Cellars & attics -- 11. Bedrooms -- 12. Cupboards & wardrobes -- 13. Bathrooms -- 14. ironmongery & hardware -- 15. Doors -- 16. Windows -- 17. Facades & faces -- 18. Bays windows & balconies -- 19. Sheds, huts and treehouses -- 20. Swimming pools -- 21. Roofs -- 22. Fences & gates -- 23. Minituratization & representation -- 24. Mirrors -- 25. Porches, verandas & decks -- 26. Lights -- 27. Floors -- 28. Walls -- 29. Corridors -- 30. Ceilings -- 31. Studies & libraries -- 32. Christmas -- 33. Columns & pillars -- 34. Pipes, wires & sewers -- Afterword: time, ghosts and the uncanny -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aWe are so familiar with the features of our homes - the rooms, fixtures and myriad little decorative details - that we have forgotten how to look at them. We might explore a church, read a book or watch a film, and attempt to decode its symbols and references, but we rarely look at our homes with the same critical eye. Yet from the most ordinary apartment to the most extravagant mansion, every home is a deep well of meaning. From windows to wardrobes, fireplaces to doorknockers, Edwin Heathcote attempts to fathom the elements of our everyday domestic lives. He explores how, over time, ancient ritual elements transmute into practical features, and how some of these, charged with latent symbolic meaning, have persisted in modern dwellings despite having lost their original uses. Home will never quite look the same again.
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