Deborah Sugg Ryan

Ideal homes (eBook, ePUB)

Uncovering the history and design of the interwar house

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a period when homeownership was becoming the norm, these communities sought out varieties of architecture and design that were both nostalgic and modern, reflecting longings for 'Old England' on the one hand and technological convenience on the other. The book draws on exhibitions, memoirs, advertisements and films, as well as surviving examples of suburban architecture and interiors, to identify a distinctively suburban modernism, embodied by the Tudorbethan semi. Arguing that the 'ideal' home of the period was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation, it concludes by considering how such houses are lived in today. This new edition also features an introductory chapter on researching the history of your own home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526152251
• Artikelnr.: 58905623

Autorenporträt

Deborah Sugg Ryan is a historian, author and contributor for BBC Two's A House Through Time. A former V&A curator, she is a specialist in the history of housing, interiors, products and everyday life and has appeared on BBC Two's Inside the Factory, Business Boomers; More 4's David Jason's History of British Inventions and Channel 4's No 57: The Story of a House, Heaven, Hell or Suburbia. Deborah is Professor of Design History and Theory at University of Portsmouth and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

New introduction: researching your house history 1 The interwar house:
ideal homes and domestic design 2 Suburban: class, gender and homeownership
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 Index