Ideal Homes, 1918-39 : Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Studies in Design and Material Culture Series .
- Studies in Design and Material Culture Series .
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.