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*008110824s2007    xxu    | b    001 0 eng c
*020  $a0309102367 (hardcover)
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*020  $a9780309102360 (hardcover)
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*035  $a(Ko)28047
*040  $dDLC$dDLC$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dC#P$dEYE$dDLC$dKo
*084  $aPka
*1001 $aKanigel, Robert
*24510$aFaux real :$bgenuine leather and 200 years of inspired fakes  /$cRobert Kanigel
*2461 $aFauxReal
*260  $aWashington, D.C. ;$a2007 :$bJoseph Henry Press ,$ccop. 2007
*300  $avii, 288 s.  :$c24 cm
*500  $aImitating the Inimitable -- Material World -- "Let the Good Work Go On" -- Leather Alive -- Bizarre Effects -- One Nature -- Nothing Like Leather -- "All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated" -- Top Grain -- Inspired Fakes -- What Nature Had in Mind -- Crocodile Dreams -- Vera Pelle.
*504  $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 250-273) and index.
*650 4$aKonstläder
*650 4$aLeather, Artificial.
*8520 $hTEXTIL -  Pk
*8564 $uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034859.html
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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 14th century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The 20th century has given us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself - or at least to convince consumers that it has. Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine; Genuineleather, like a single German word, is how we think of it. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents an often passionate journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.