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Bringing Modernity Home: Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture

Bringing Modernity Home: Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture

Attfield, Judy

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture

Art HistoryLetters & EssaysArt & Popular Culture

ISBN10: 0719063264
ISBN13: 9780719063268
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Mar 31 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.89 Depth: 9.68
Language: English
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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