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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design 2 Suburban: class, gender and homeownership3 Modernisms: 'good' design and 'bad' design4 Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife5 Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of empire6 Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal homeIndex

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• 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
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780719068850
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6885-0
• 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
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architectural structure & design, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), United Kingdom, Great Britain, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Modernism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, History of Architecture, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Architectural structure and design