Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Author(s): Simon Garfield
An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.
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'This remarkable book about how the colour was discovered opened my eyes... Garfield's study is far more than a social history of fashion. It is a book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art.' Daily Telegraph
Simon Garfield was born in 1960. He is the author of Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry (1986). The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS (1994). are The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 (1998).
General Fields
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- : Faber and Faber
- : Faber and Faber
- : 0.19
- : 01 September 2001
- : 198mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Simon Garfield
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 667.2092
- : 240
- : Popular science; Pigments, dyestuffs & paint technology; Biography & autobiography; History of science; Economic history; Social & cultural history
- : 8pp colour illustrations