{"product_id":"the-tea-towel-perspectives-on-an-everyday-item","title":"The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe dishwasher has robbed the good old kitchen towel of some of its practical significance. Nevertheless, it remains present in many households, hand-woven or industrially produced, lint-free or absorbent, dirty or clean, inherited or replaceable. As a textile and as an everyday item, it is emblematic of topical social issues, such as unpaid care work, colonialism, and equality. Moreover, a tea towel evokes manifold associations and is linked to countless personal memories, experiences, and anecdotes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a long time, specially-made kitchen towels were a luxury and reserved for the upper classes. Industrial mass production has changed this, and today two developments can be observed: while kitchen towels are displayed as design objects in museum stores and craft stores, they are also standardized, cheap goods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, thirteen authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and examine it from a journalistic, artistic, technical, and cultural-historical perspective. The contributions of very different tones complement each other and create new references. Texts and images invite a rediscovery of the everyday kitchen towel as a sensual object that carries much more depth beneath its seemingly ordinary surface.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eVera Roggli, Eva Wolf, Basil Linder (Editors)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eScheidegger and Spiess\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003ePaperback, 304 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eISBN 9783039422814\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scheidegger \u0026 Spiess","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274093539563,"sku":"9783039422814","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/61P3KrgMtCL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778795634","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/the-tea-towel-perspectives-on-an-everyday-item","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}