Ideal Homes - Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar House

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the history of your own house.

Table des matières

New introduction: researching your house history
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 a historian, author and contributor for BBC Two's A House Through Time. A former V&A curator, she is a specialist in the history of housing, interiors, products and everyday life and has appeared on BBC Two's Inside the Factory, Business Boomers; More 4's David Jason's History of British Inventions and Channel 4's No 57: The Story of a House, Heaven, Hell or Suburbia. Deborah is Professor of Design History and Theory at University of Portsmouth and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Résumé

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the history of your own house. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Deborah Sugg Ryan, Deborah Sugg (Professor of Design History an Ryan, Deborah Sugg (Professor of Design History and Theory) Ryan, Deborah Sugg Ryan
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526150677
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5067-7
• Pages: 360
• Thèmes: Studies in Design and Material; Manchester University Press
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Architecture; Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Modernism, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Architecture: residential and domestic buildings