Faux Real : : Genuine Leather and 2 Years of Inspired Fakes / / Robert Kanigel.
What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know.Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth centur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I. Imitating the Inimitable
- 1. Material World
- 2. "Let the Good Work Go On"
- 3. Leather Alive
- 4. Bizarre Effects
- 5. One Nature
- 6. Nothing Like Leather
- 7. "All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated"
- 8. Top Grain
- Part II. Inspired Fakes
- 9. What Nature Had in Mind
- 10. Crocodile Dreams
- 11. Vera Pelle
- Sources and Acknowledgments
- Index