The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item Travel Like much of de Waal’s

Like much of de Waal’s work

hand-embossed on a white disc

/ 272 pgs / 120 color / 300 bw

192 pages

due to be held at the MACRO in Rome at the end of 2020

The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item Travel Like much of de Waal’sFor 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. In The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item, thirteen authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and