Blanket

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Blankets exist in so many places: throughout homes, on our beds, in commercial airliners, in prison cells, silver ones scattered around public streets after marathons … What could we possibly say about them all? Can we even think about the blanket as a discrete thing? This book considers the object potential of blankets by encountering them in multiple formats, times, and spaces-from the battlefield to the hospital, from the home to the grave. The blanket turbans out to be a surprising media form, carrying everything from viruses to cultural codes.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.