{"product_id":"paysage-de-lignes-esthetique-et-telecommunications","title":"Landscape of lines. Aesthetics and telecommunications. Overview collection.","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \"I believe that in the future electric wires will connect the headquarters of telephone companies in different cities, and that a man anywhere on earth will be able to communicate by speech with another in a distant place.\" In 1878, two years after the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell imagined a future of radical transformations made possible by a dense network of telephone wires: a premonition that would soon prove true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book depicts the material and anonymous history of the objects that make up modern telecommunications: electricity poles, wires and cables, sockets and switches, through to ingenious devices and micro-architectures such as the theaterphone and the telephone booth. Starting with the heroic installation, towards the end of the \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e19th\u003c\/sup\u003e century, of infrastructures covering the earth's surface, crossing undergrounds, oceans and seas to penetrate domestic interiors, Landscape of Lines offers a reading that, through its plurality of axes, explores the multiple links and intersections that these technical \"things\" maintain with architecture and art. Enriched with unpublished archive images revealing a stunning imagination, this book brings an aesthetic look at ordinary objects that have forever changed the urban, rural and domestic landscape of our civilization.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733115441392,"sku":"25605","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/products\/5298584.png?v=1650707233","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/paysage-de-lignes-esthetique-et-telecommunications","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}