The Tea Towel

Vera Roggli

ISBN 10: 3039422812 / ISBN 13: 9783039422814

Editore: Scheidegger & Spiess Dez 2025, 2025

Neuware -The dishwasher has robbed the good old kitchen towel of some of its practical significance. Nevertheless, it remains present in many households, hand-woven or industrially produced, lint-free or absorbent, dirty or clean, inherited or replaceable. In some kitchens, special attention is also required, as there is one for the hands and one for the dishes.For a long time, specially made kitchen towels were a luxury and reserved for the upper classes. Industrial mass production has changed this, and today two developments can be observed: while kitchen towels are displayed as design objects in museum stores and craft stores, they are also standardized cheap goods. In The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item, 13 authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and examine it from a literary, journalistic, artistic, technical, and sociopolitical perspective. The contributions of very different tones complement each other and create new references. In text and images, the book encourages a rediscovery of the everyday kitchen towel as a sensual object with which many socially relevant topics are associated.GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Postfach 2021, 37010 Göttingen 304 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 9783039422814

Riassunto:

The dishwasher has robbed the good old kitchen towel of some of its practical significance. Nevertheless, it remains present in many households, hand-woven or industrially produced, lint-free or absorbent, dirty or clean, inherited or replaceable. In some kitchens, special attention is also required, as there is one for the hands and one for the dishes.

For a long time, specially made kitchen towels were a luxury and reserved for the upper classes. Industrial mass production has changed this, and today two developments can be observed: while kitchen towels are displayed as design objects in museum stores and craft stores, they are also standardised cheap goods.

In The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item, 13 authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and examine it from a literary, journalistic, artistic, technical, and socio-political perspective. The contributions of very different tones complement each other and create new references. In text and images, the book encourages a rediscovery of the everyday kitchen towel as a sensual object with which many socially relevant topics are associated.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Vera Roggli is a textile designer living and working between Italy, Switzerland, and Belgium. Eva Wolf is a graphic designer and illustrator, and Basil Linder is a graphic designer and typeface designer. They jointly run the Bern-based design firm Studio Eva Basil.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: The Tea Towel
Casa editrice: Scheidegger & Spiess Dez 2025
Data di pubblicazione: 2025
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu