Witold Rybczynski's HOME

bluesky review:

⌘ What could simply be a catalogue of historical changes in the design of domestic space instead expands to cover a whole panoply of shifts across broader conceptual categories—leisure, ease, pleasure, convenience, intimacy, privacy, etc.

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oldest to newest

1. The internal world and the home

2. Technological developments in the Middle Ages

3. The poor in the Middle Ages

4. Invented traditions

5. "Stimmung"

6. Home as residence

7. Rococo

8. Portable furniture

9. 1855-1895: Gas lighting

10. 1883-1920: Electric devices

11. The timeline of comfort