Things In-doors, cover

The blue embossed cover for Things In-doors bears the title in gold and the image of a girl absorbed in playing tea-party with dolls and miniature furnishings. She sits on the floor in a furnished room, surrounded by a screen, plant, and baby carriage. The image is tilted, drawn as if peeling off the corner to suggest a tinted image pasted scrapbook fashion onto the cover--as if the book itself is the product of a child's craft. This design calls attention to the materiality of this book and the process of making it, while the book itself contains hundreds of everyday objects with descriptions of how they are made and used.