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From Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. 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.
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Faux Real, Robert Kanigel
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Faux Real
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Kanigel
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 081222132X
- ISBN13
- 9780812221329
- Description
- From Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. 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.