Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen

摘要

There is a category of commodity that in some parts of the world is only noticeable by its absence or by its extreme size. In the over-developed world, TVs and fridges mostly go unnoticed unless they are missing or have become gargantuan. Such consumer durables exist in a state of ubiquity, hiding their magical properties beneath the blanket of ordinariness. Helen Peavitt's Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen is to be congratulated for offering an account of the refrigerator that manages to keep the magic of refrigeration alive, while also showing us how it became so banal, so ordinary.