xvii, 246 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2018
20th century
Notes:
CHMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
1. The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design -- 2. Suburban: class, gender and home ownership -- 3. Modernisms: 'good design' and 'bad design' -- 4. Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife -- 5. Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of Empire -- 6. Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal home
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