Bringing Modernity Home : Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture Hardback
by Judy Attfield
Part of the Studies in Design and Material Culture series
Hardback
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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 a flavor of the excitement and thrill they afforded designers, makers and consumers after the harsh deprivations of the war. -- .
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2007
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- ISBN:9780719063268
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780719063268