Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Material World -- 2. "Let the Good Work Go On" -- 3. Leather Alive -- 4. Bizarre Effects -- 5. One Nature -- 6. Nothing Like Leather -- 7. "All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated" -- 8. Top Grain -- 9. What Nature Had in Mind -- 10. Crocodile Dreams -- 11. Vera Pelle -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary
From Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative
