Architecture And Design For The Family In Britain 1900 1970

Author : David Jeremiah
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058899
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Design For the Family in Britain, 1900-1970 written by David Jeremiah and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from archeology, history, town planning, and sociology, this study considers family homes and new neighborhoods, the products and plans for everyday life, and the family lifestyle. Information is presented chronologically and in terms of class. Chapters focus on specific periods of time between 1918 and 1969, as well as on issues like health, comfort, and happiness. Forty-nine illustrations and black and white photographs are featured. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : David Jeremiah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Design for the Family in Twentieth-century Britain, 1900-1970 written by David Jeremiah and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Jeremiah
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058899
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Architecture and Design For the Family in Britain, 1900-1970 written by David Jeremiah and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tracks the complex and important relationship between the "ideal" and the "commonplace" in the social purpose of architecture and design intended for the family. Recognizing the importance of the 19th-century legacy and examining the cultural agenda to provide a better life, the study is defined by two major periods of national reconstruction. Core areas covered are family homes and new neighborhoods, the products and schemes for everyday life, and the housewife and family lifestyle.

Author : Deborah Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351793640
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Ideals of Home written by Deborah Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven, managed as an investment, and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public, state, commercial, popular and expert discourses about ‘home’: the heritage industry, design, exhibitions, television, social media, home mobilities and migration, smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography, the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original, historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; ‘media home’ imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of ‘homes of tomorrow’ and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study, this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies, cultural history, media and communication studies, as well as sociology, gender studies, cultural geography and design studies.

Author : Deborah Sugg Ryan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526152258
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideal homes written by Deborah Sugg Ryan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Deborah Sugg Ryan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526126575
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideal homes, 1918–39 written by Deborah Sugg Ryan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged through the architecture, design and decoration of the home, in choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked backwards to the past whilst looking forward to the future. Thus the inter-war ‘ideal’ home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today. It will appeal to academics and students in design, social and cultural history as well as a wider readership curious about interwar homes.

Author : Anna Neima
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009058789
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Utopia written by Anna Neima and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.

Author : James Vernon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044673
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunger written by James Vernon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements of the welfare state in Britain, as well as with the development of international institutions committed to the conquest of world hunger.

Author : Michael John Law
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799426
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The experience of suburban modernity written by Michael John Law and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class suburbanites enjoyed driving at speed on new arterial roads, visiting roadhouses for a transgressive night out, taking five-shilling flights from the local airport, and joining cycling and motorcycle clubs. All this fun came at a price for some in the form of thousands of deaths in road accidents, plane crashes on suburban housing and in the despoiling of the countryside through road development. This book will be welcomed by academics and students working in suburban studies, historical geography and interwar British history and can also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the history of London.

Author : John Potvin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526159317
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bachelors of a different sort written by John Potvin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.