Home (A Short History of an Idea) by Witold Rybczynski

Step into the fascinating world of domestic comfort with Witold Rybczynski’s Home: A Short History of an Idea. This thought-provoking book explores how our modern sense of home evolved tracing the transformation of private spaces from medieval halls to cozy, intimate retreats. Rybczynski, an acclaimed architect and author of Paper Heroes and Taming the Tiger, weaves together history, design, and culture to reveal how our ideas of comfort, privacy, and style have changed over centuries. 

This hardcover edition with its original dust jacket is in very good condition. The pages are clean, though the back section has some formerly dog-eared pages now smoothed back into place. Published by Viking in 1986, this is a third printing. 

A must-read for lovers of architecture, design, and cultural history, this book offers a fresh perspective on the spaces we call home.

-Used

-Hardcover

-Copyright 1986