How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-nineteenth century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of good taste as a way of codifying middle-class mores. A century later, to talk about taste had become almost taboo, since judgments made about dress, manners, food and art can often be painfully revealing. And today?
When this classic text was first published in 1991, Stephen Bayley illuminated the nuances and niceties of our mercurial understanding of taste. In this new edition, he ranges far and wide to bring us exquisitely up to date.
'I don't know anybody with more interesting observations about style, taste and contemporary design' Tom Wolfe on Stephen Bayley
- ISBN10 1911422065
- ISBN13 9781911422068
- Publish Date 25 October 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Circa Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English