Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of ›getting out of your com

To be comfortable stands as an aspiration of the times; to be comfortable defines what it means to live ‘the good life’. We talk about such things as mainta

In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian mi

After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines ke

What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an or