Kathryn Ferry

Bungalows (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now synonymous with the single storey home, when the bungalow was introduced to Britain in the late 1860s it had more elaborate connotations. Appropriated by colonial officials in Bengal, this humble dwelling was transformed upon its arrival on the Kent coastline into a new type of holiday home, complete with veranda and servant quarters. These first Western examples became very popular amongst the upper middle-class and the elderly,and crucially also attracted artistic inhabitants, setting the tone for the bungalow as a Bohemian escape well into the twentieth century. Focusing on the British bungalow up to the Second World War, Kathryn Ferry here explores its social, cultural and architectural development, revealing what the very earliest versions looked like and why at the peak of their popularity bungalows were so ubiquitous.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784420017
• Artikelnr.: 44626722

Autorenporträt

Kathryn is a historian, writer and lecturer. She has always loved buildings and studied for a PhD in Architectural History at Cambridge University. Her thesis looked at the work of Victorian architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-74), a major figure in the world of nineteenth century design reform. Kathryn subsequently worked as Senior Architectural Adviser to the Victorian Society, the national charity campaigning for the preservation of nineteenth century buildings. Her other great interest is the seaside, for its social history, its buildings and its beach huts. Kathryn has been researching the beach hut story for over a decade and has travelled around the UK coast to see more than 20,000 of these colourful structures.