![]() ![]() The book spans from the Middle Ages to present day. “Home” is broken down into ten chapters, which each one expounding upon some aspect of the history and development of the concept of a home and its furnishings. This anecdote forms the basis of the book as Rybczynki seeks to discover what exactly is comfort? Comfort was inside the kidney, discomfort was everywhere else” (Rybczynski, vii). “The “comfort zone” which, as far as I can remember, was a kidney-shaped, crosshatched area on a graph that showed the relationship between temperature and humidity. ![]() His professor was discussing air conditioning and began to describe what mechanical engineers called the “comfort zone”. ![]() He tells a story of being in architecture school and how the topic of comfort was only mentioned one time. An architect by trade, Witold explains that he wrote the book out of ignorance, as he really did not know what comfort was. Witold Rybczynski’s “Home: A Short History of an Idea”, is essentially a long essay about the idea of comfort. ![]()
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