Doorknob

by Thomas Mical

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Doorknob , architecture and design scholar Thomas Mical explores a commonplace device that under closer scrutiny becomes a wonderful and slightly surreal mechanism of transformation. Inviting readers to look again at this everyday object, Mical shows how the doorknob can be understood as thing, as process, as transitional object, as the machine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501303112
• ISBN13: 9781501303111
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages