Ideal homes, 1918-39 : domestic design and suburban modernism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, Deborah S., author.

Series:

Studies in design and material culture.

Studies in design and material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Architecture, Domestic.

Physical Description:

xvii, 246 pages, 20 plates on 16 pages : illustrations ( some colour) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of interwar homes then and now. It argues that these 'ideal' homes combine nostalgia for the past and longing for the future resulting in a new specifically suburban modernism.

Contents:

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": pages [214]-232.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Stait fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0719068843

9780719068843

0719068851

9780719068850

OCLC:

990854064