At the 1889 Parisian Universelle Exhibition, architect Charles Garnier proposed a path of “home history” based on ethnographic data. The Scandinavian chalet, Byzantine house or even gallo-Roman, had forty-four grandeur-nature models in the very location — the nose of history — of the current Museum of the Quai Branly. Subsequently, in 1892, the Human Housing was published, an enriched edition of the Written Exhibition Guide...