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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Design and Material Culture SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526126566
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ideal Homes, 1918-39DDC classification:
  • 728.0942
LOC classification:
  • NA7328 .R936 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design -- Suburban: class, gender and home ownership -- Modernisms: 'good design' and 'bad design' -- Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife -- Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of Empire -- Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal home -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design -- Suburban: class, gender and home ownership -- Modernisms: 'good design' and 'bad design' -- Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife -- Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of Empire -- Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal home -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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