Views on an everyday object

Sometimes the everyday tells the most exciting stories - here it is the kitchen towel. It becomes the starting point for stories about work, consumption, history and social structures. Thirteen authors, artists and designers enter into a dialog with the textile object and examine it from a journalistic, artistic, cultural-historical and technical perspective. In this way, the book unfolds a surprisingly rich panorama of the everyday object that goes far beyond its pure use.

For a long time, handmade kitchen towels were a luxury item, dependent on class and social status - industrial mass production has completely changed this. Today, on the one hand, there are high-quality handcrafted variants, for example as design objects, and at the same time standardized cheap goods. With pointed observations, DAS KÜCHENTUCH shows how a rectangular fabric raises questions about appreciation, craftsmanship, everyday culture and the social role of housework.

On a total of 304 pages, the richly illustrated paperback sharpens the eye for the special in the everyday and makes clear in a clever, entertaining way what is otherwise often overlooked.