Taste
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Book Overview
Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the topic of "taste" with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food. This is a new edition of his classic book, brought... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0394558928
ISBN13:9780394558929
Release Date:March 1992
Publisher:Pantheon Books
Length:237 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.7" x 10.1"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Charming and (Mostly) Accurate
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Here's one thing I can infer with some certainty: Stephen Bayley is a more charming dinner companion than I. He's a great story-teller, and uses that gift to great effect. He never lets an assertion or the demonstration of a point go by without a telling anecdote to go along with it. He's also got some courage: this book ranges far and wide, over terrain you'd need six or eight academics to cover authoritatively. That said, there are a few moments that make me wonder about the accuracy of his book. When he wanders into areas that I know about professionally (the philosophy of Hume or the poetry of Keats, say, both of which I teach) he's bright and clear and amusing, but only about 90% right. It would be asking a great deal of Bayley if we were to demand that he combine the skills of experts in many areas with the skills of a real raconteur, and in his foreword Bayley admits that there are moments in the book when he lapses into facetiousness. Still, he's done something of real value in writing a witty, readable book on such a nebulous topic. If you take this book as an introduction to the topic, rather than as the final word, you'll be quite pleased, I think.
Red faces
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Ah. It's great to read a book that makes some red faces out of the monied up consumer.
Thought-provoking and purely wonderful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Everyone should read this book, to agree or disagree with Bayley doesn't matter, it is simply a broadly interesting and highly entertaining compendium of amazing bits of information.
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