Bringing modernity home : Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Design and Material Culture
ISBN-10
0719063264
ISBN-13
9780719063268
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 31st, 2007
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
703 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 17.00 x 1.90 cms
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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.
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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