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Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

By Stephen Bayley

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About the book

How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-nineteenth century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of good taste as a way of codifying middleclass mores. A century later, to talk about taste had become almost taboo, since judgments made about dress, manners, food and art can often be painfully revealing. And today? When this classic text was first published in 1991, Stephen Bayley illuminated ...Show more

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9781911422068

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Circa Press

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2017

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Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

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