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House & Garden launches The Calico Club

Here, the curators show tons of of home items and objects—one might even say “elements”—that assist personalize our residing spaces. The collection proves that walls, windows, and doors aren’t sufficient to outline a home.

The house and the house have had a varied life in anthropological thought and statement. Developing from an early concentrate on the house as a social institution, it was first understood as a means of ordering society, a site of practice, and a construction of social copy. Houses and houses have additionally been explored as sites of subject formation, of belonging and safety – or the breakdown thereof. Shaped in part by their materials underpinnings, domestic processes were continuously being rearranged, reworked, cared for, and reproduced through the efforts of varied kinds of home labour. Anthropological approaches have lately begun to develop and elaborate a distinction between the home and the home, wherein homes contain normative, extensively reproduced, and sometimes materials forms, whereas properties centre around the subjective feelings of belonging and dwelling.

Home and the processes linked to it usually are not essentially materials, and even when they’re, they don’t need to be linked to a home. Home could evoke the notion of a homeland, whose material basis lies in the smells of road foods, the cadence of a dialect, or the grand structure of symbolic monuments. This is the case, for instance, with the Sikh ‘homeland’ of Khalistan, which exists as a but-to-be realised nationalist vision, amongst … Read More