- Publisher: Portico
- Year: 2015
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 208pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 191x141mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781910232415
- Product code: 547108
History of the World in 100 Modern Objects
New Hardback Illustrated
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It was the sudden ubiquity of the Daunt Books tote bag that inspired Francesca Hornak to begin her column in The Sunday Times Style Magazine with its vignettes on the modern, middle-class lifestyle. Presented in this ‘ultimate bourgeois catalogue’ are highlights from the column, including Lizzie’s attempt to choose between Farrow & Ball’s All White and Wimborne White, and newly freelance Claudia inadvertently becoming a fan of The Archers after her former colleagues gifted her a Roberts radio.
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The book of the popular Sunday Times Style section column 'History of the World in 100 Objects'.
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'. Featuring a different iconic object each week, the column explores contemporary middle-class life through the objects we fetishise. Each column is a little vignette about a different character, such as Izzy, who's 26 and interns at Kelly Hoppen and gets into a spat with her flatmate about a twee Oliver Bonas cake stand, Nick, 40, who's considering the safety aspects of his children's bike trailer and remembering his old DJing days, and Philippa, 64, who's tussling with her Sky TV remote after her divorce. Funny, charming and sometimes poignant, each column is an evocative slice of modern life.
The columns are accompanied by crisp, colourful illustrations by the illustrator James Joyce, which make the book into a design object itself.
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'. Featuring a different iconic object each week, the column explores contemporary middle-class life through the objects we fetishise. Each column is a little vignette about a different character, such as Izzy, who's 26 and interns at Kelly Hoppen and gets into a spat with her flatmate about a twee Oliver Bonas cake stand, Nick, 40, who's considering the safety aspects of his children's bike trailer and remembering his old DJing days, and Philippa, 64, who's tussling with her Sky TV remote after her divorce. Funny, charming and sometimes poignant, each column is an evocative slice of modern life.
The columns are accompanied by crisp, colourful illustrations by the illustrator James Joyce, which make the book into a design object itself.
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It was the sudden ubiquity of the Daunt Books tote bag that inspired Francesca Hornak to begin her column in <i>The Sunday Times Style Magazine</i> with its vignettes on the modern, middle-class lifestyle. Presented in this ‘ultimate bourgeois catalogue’ are highlights from the column, including Lizzie’s attempt to choose between Farrow & Ball’s All White and Wimborne White, and newly freelance Claudia inadvertently becoming a fan of <i>The Archers</i> after her former colleagues gifted her a Roberts radio.
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