Item #167006 Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005. Sarah Coffin.
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005

Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005

New York: Assouline, 2006. Hardcover. 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. VG/VG-. Dust jacket shows some edge wear. Cover has very light edge wear, otherwise book is clean and tight. Item #167006
ISBN: 9782843238451

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.

OCLC: 904713195

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