Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
Cantor Arts Center’s new exhibit gets a handle on unique pieces from the permanent collection
Cantor Arts Center’s new exhibit gets a handle on unique pieces from the permanent collection
Josiah Wedgwood (English, 1730–1795), Teapot, c. 1800-1820. Stoneware. Committee for Art Acquisitions Fund. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Consider the humble handle. Most likely you don’t consider it, but you do use one every time you drink a cup of coffee, lift a suitcase or open a cabinet. The German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote an entire treatise, “The Handle,” in 1911, calling attention to the fact that it is both a functional and aesthetic object.