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Bringing Modernity Home
Judy Attfield
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Description for Bringing Modernity Home
Offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a different phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post second world war period through a series of accounts of developments in modern design history. Series Editor(s): Breward, Christopher; Sherman, Bill. Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: AK; JFCA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 712.
Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period. It traces the change to consumer-led design after a time of grim austerity and recovery from the war while the state and production considerations held sway when consumers "couldn't afford taste". The case studies of so-called frivolous items like the cocktail cabinet, the coffee table and the rise of DIY in the working-class homes of the "new towns" gives ... Read more
Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period. It traces the change to consumer-led design after a time of grim austerity and recovery from the war while the state and production considerations held sway when consumers "couldn't afford taste". The case studies of so-called frivolous items like the cocktail cabinet, the coffee table and the rise of DIY in the working-class homes of the "new towns" gives ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Design and Material Culture
Number of Pages
232
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719063268
SKU
V9780719063268
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About Judy Attfield
Judith Attfield was Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton -- .
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