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. -- .
- ISBN:
- 9780719063268
- 9780719063268
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Category:
- Industrial / commercial art & design
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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31-03-2007
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 232
- Dimensions (mm):
- 240x170x19mm
- Weight:
- 0.7kg
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