Ideal Homes, 1918-39 - Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism

Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes.

List of contents

1 The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design
2 Suburban: class, gender and homeownership
3 Modernisms: 'good' design and 'bad' design
4 Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife
5 Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of empire
6 Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal home
Index

About the author

Deborah Sugg Ryan is Professor of Design History and Theory, and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Portsmouth. She is also a contributor for BBC2's A House Through Time.

Summary

Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Deborah S. (Professor of Design History and Ryan, Deborah S. (Professor of Design History and Theory) Ryan, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Deborah Sugg (Professor of Design History an Ryan, Deborah Sugg (Professor of Design History and Theory) Ryan, Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor Deborah Sugg (Professor of Design History and Theory) Ryan
• Assisted by: Christopher Breward (Editor), Bill Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780719068843
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6884-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture