Living under the Crescent Moon: Domestic Culture in the Arab World

摘要

Fewer than eighteen hours before I arrived at the entrance to the Vitra Design Museum in the German town of Weil am Rhein, just north of Basel, I had been to an IKEA in the heart of the country's northwestern rustbelt. Some of the immigrant and working-class customers were there precisely because their accents, clothing, or skin color made them suspect that they might not be treated graciously at the kinds of shops that stock Vitra furniture (the Vitra company is a major sponsor of the Vitra Foundation, which runs the Design Museum, but the Foundation is legally distinct from the company).