Eating is a social ritual. From dinner dates to everyday suppers, casual picnics to lavish feasts, dining brings people together for far more than satisfying the needs of the body. For centuries, cutlery has served as extensions of our hands, enriching how we experience food and the act of eating. Knives, forks, and spoons come between hand and mouth, articulating the experience of dining. Accompanying an exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (May 5-October 29, 2006), Feeding Desire is the ...
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Eating is a social ritual. From dinner dates to everyday suppers, casual picnics to lavish feasts, dining brings people together for far more than satisfying the needs of the body. For centuries, cutlery has served as extensions of our hands, enriching how we experience food and the act of eating. Knives, forks, and spoons come between hand and mouth, articulating the experience of dining. Accompanying an exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (May 5-October 29, 2006), Feeding Desire is the first book to showcase the Museum's astonishing permanent collection of American and European cutlery. Complementing and expanding on the content of the exhibition, seven original essays, accompanied by over two hundred lavish color and black-and-white illustrations, relate the surprisingly different histories of the knife, spoon, and fork, and reveal how cutlery has influenced food, fashion, design, mobility, hygiene, and consumption over the centuries. In addition, Feeding Desire looks toward the future of the tools of the table as we progress into the twenty-first century.
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Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $6.57, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $10.42, fair condition, Sold by Big River Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Powder Springs, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
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Fair. This book is in Acceptable condition. The cover is creased and has excessive wear. There may be writing or highlighting. The pages are still intact.
Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $16.24, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Emerald rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
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Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $16.25, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Emerald rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
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Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Lavendier Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Foster, RI, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
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Very Good. Size: 9x1x12; Assouline Publishing; New York, 2006. Hardcover. A Very Good, brown buckram binding with blind stamped lettering on front board and spine, binding sturdy and intact, rubbing along board edges, bumped top board corners, a hint of sunning to page margins, small abrasions to board corners, small scuff mark to text block edges, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches], 288pp., appendix, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table 1500-2005 to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline.
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NF but for dings to lower front corners of cover. in VG+ but for light wear to top edge. jacket. 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. 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.
Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $45.00, like new condition, Sold by Brenner's Collectable Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Manasquan, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing / Smithsonian-Cooper-Hewitt.
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As New. Folio, 288pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition of this wonderful survey of how people ate and the tools they used for the last five hundred years. Bound in brown cloth with titles blind-stamped on front board and spine. Illustrations throughout. Square tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Came directly in publisher's shipping box. A gorgeous collectable copy. Please note: This is a very large, heavy book. International and Priority orders will require additional postage.
Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $50.13, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
Add this copy of Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500 to cart. $90.00, like new condition, Sold by SELG Inc. Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Assouline Publishing.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 9x1x12; Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Clean and tight. No markings. Ships from NYC.