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From Palaces to Pre-fabs : Pioneering Women Interior Decorators and Designers, Paperback / softback Book

From Palaces to Pre-fabs : Pioneering Women Interior Decorators and Designers Paperback / softback

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Although how we furnished our homes in the latter part of the 20th century was largely influenced by two men - Terence Conran of Habitat and Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA - a number of women attempted, in their various ways, to influence our taste when it came to how we lived.

Early on were the Victorian/Edwardian women, often associated with the Suffragette movement who both designed and sold furniture.

These were followed, after WWI, by others also breaking social rank - the society hostesses - totally untrained but full of confidence, and having their own 'interiors' admired, saw a way of supplementing their incomes by imposing their tastes on others.

Meanwhile a few women were proselytising their concerns for well-crafted and designed products, through retail outlets from small financially precarious shops, to running part of the prestigious store, Heals.

Wartime threw up an altogether more professional group - the 'doers' - those empowered to 'do it themselves' .

Additionally there were a handful of professional furniture designers and another small groups looking to the design needs of the masses rather than the comfortably off. From Palaces to Pre-fabs sets out to restore the reputation of such women working in what was the largely male-dominated world of interior design.

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