Dr. Johnson's Doorknob

And Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses. Liz Workman. New York 2007. Einleitung von Germaine Greer. 16,8 x 16,8 cm. 208 S. mit über 100 farb. Abb. Fester Einband im Schuber. Text in englischer Sprache.
ISBN 978-0847829705

statt 22,– € 9,95

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Jedes der neun Kapitel in diesem schön gestalteten Band ist eine Anthologie für sich. Das Buch versammelt ironische Fotografien der Inneneinrichtung und Möbel aus den Häusern bedeutender Männer.

Zu sehen gibt es den Kaminsims von Franklin D. Roosevelt, die Türknäufe von Edgar Allen Poe und Charles Dickens oder der Aschenbecher, in dem Sigmund Freud seine Zigarren ablegte.

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Behind every great man are his objects and daily possessions, defined as much by the minutiae of domesticity as by the great works of the man himself. From the mantelpieces in the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the crockery in Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home and the banisters in the William Morris Gallery, this volume peekes over the velvet ropes and turnes an ironic eye on some of the most important historic homes in England and America.

Each of the nine chapters in this charming, slipcased package is an anthology in itself, a collection of photographs that celebrate the unsung features of “great” men’s homes: there are door handles and banisters from the hallways of Charles Dickens and Jules Verne; the ashtray that held Freud’s cigarette butts; and chairs sat on by Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Jefferson.

An ironic inventory of forgotten details - from baseboards to bannisters - in great men's houses.

 

 

(Sigmund Freuds Schreibtisch)