British design : tradition and modernity after 1948 / edited by Christopher Breward, Fiona Fisher and Ghislaine Wood.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Breward, Christopher, 1965- editor.

Fisher, Fiona, editor.

Wood, Ghislaine, editor.

Conference Name:

Spaces and Places: British Design 1948-2012 (Conference) (2012 : Victoria and Albert Museum)

Standardized Title:

British design (Bloomsbury (Firm))

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture)--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Space (Architecture).

Space (Architecture)--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Design--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Design.

Design--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"British Design brings together a collection of essays from international scholars, designers and journalists, offering new perspectives on the significance of British design in the last sixty years. The book reacts and responds to the changes that have taken place in the recent history of British Design, with case studies looking at, among others, domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools, universities and objects of transport. Chapters include investigations into a variety of significant historical and social moments from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers such as Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides the contemporary study of the developments within British design and provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from post-war Britain to today, has developed and changed how we live and interact with the spaces in which we live"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age: A Retrospective View Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood; The Spaces and Places of British Modernity Penny Sparke and Fiona Fisher; 1 The Primavera Story: 1946-67 Janine Barker and Cheryl Buckley; 2 Tommy Roberts: From Kleptomaniato Two Columbia Road Paul Gorman; 3 John Fowler, Nancy Lancaster and the English Country House Martin Wood; 4 At Home with Modern Design 1958-65: A Case Study Christine Lalumia.

5 Conservative Flagship: Interior Design for RMS Windsor Castle, 1960 Harriet McKay6 Bernat Klein: Colouring the Interior Fiona Anderson; 7 Ancient Spaces in Modern Dress: Basil Spence at the University of Sussex Maurice Howard; 8 Architects Co-Partnership: Private Practice for Public Service Alan Powers; 9 Something Fierce: Brutalist Historicism at Essex University Library Jules Lubbock; 10 Hidden Internationalisms: Tradition and Modernism in Post-war Primary School Design, 1948-72 Catherine Burke.

11 Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances: Modernist Pop and Modernist Architecture-A Short History of a Misunderstanding Owen Hatherley12 Edinburgh on the Couch Richard J

Williams; 13 Heatherwick Studio: A New Bus for London Abraham Thomas; Select Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

"This book originates in a conference entitled Spaces and Places: British Design 1948-2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781474256216

147425621X

OCLC:

1201426433