Ideal Homes, 1918-39 : Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism.
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- computer
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- 9781526126566
- 728.0942
- NA7328 .R936 2018
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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