Home Comforts The Art And Science Of Keeping House & Patterns Of Home Hardcovers

by Cheryl Mendelson

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Please view all photos for further details. Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design Written by architects Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow, this book is a practical distillation of design principles from the classic architectural text A Pattern Language.Focus: It identifies ten essential "patterns" that define a well-crafted home, such as "Capturing Light," "Creating Rooms," and "The Flow Through Rooms". Goal: The authors aim to help homeowners and architects create spaces that satisfy emotional and experiential needs rather than just meeting basic material requirements. Content: It features detailed tours, diagrams, and hundreds of color photographs of 33 distinctive residences to illustrate these concepts in practice. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House Authored by Cheryl Mendelson, this bestseller is often compared to the Joy of Cooking for its exhaustive coverage of domestic management. Focus: It explores the "why" and "how" of housekeeping, treating it as both a technical science and a philosophical art form. Topics: The book offers practical advice on a vast range of tasks, from folding fitted sheets and removing stains to more specialized topics like tuning a piano and safe food storage. Theme: Mendelson highlights how a well-maintained home fosters personal identity, security, and a vital "psychic order" for its inhabitants. “ Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House" is a vintage hardcover book by Cheryl

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 1999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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