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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: 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
• Collaboration: Christopher Breward (Editeur), Bill Sherman (Editeur)
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780719068843
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6884-3
• Pages: 264
• Thèmes: 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
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > 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