The Elements of a Home

Every domestic object—the desk you write at, the chair you’re sitting on, the lamp that lights the room—not only has a personal history but also a secret history with roots in the past.

The Elements of a Home looks for the highlights in objects’ lives as they evolved to become the things that are familiar to us today, and reveals the fascinating stories behind more than 60 everyday household objects and furnishings.

Discover the complex, colorful, and often surprising story of the domestic objects with which we furnish our homes.

328 pages. Hardcover.