The idea of comfort

Comfort, a gentle discipline? Tomás Maldonado asked the question from the first pages of this anthology. The texts collected here - unpublished, newly translated, dispersed or difficult to access - tackle this key notion through the conception of the living environment and the domestic environment. Whether they testify to an experience or affirm theoretical postures, the writings of architects and designers respond to different points of view of scientists: historian, sociologist, anthropologist, psychologist, doctor, etc. From medieval armchairs to connected refrigerators, from zazen to space tourism: the spectrum of comfort is revealed over these pages - sometimes soft, often blurred, omnipresent, elusive. This anthology, established under the direction of Tony Côme and Juliette Pollet, brings together unpublished essays, newly translated, difficult to access or little known, which question the concept of comfort and the history of its emergence. Tony Côme and Juliette Pollet (dir.)