Home: A Short History of an Idea Audiobook (Free)

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and little, from your smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren-designed environments of today. On a house tour like no other-one that delightfully explicates the very notion of “house”-you’ll observe how cultural and cultural adjustments influenced styles of design and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries and wall-to-wall carpeting, discover how some of our most welcome luxuries were blessed of architectural requirement, plus much more.