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Bringing Modernity Home

Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture

Judy Attfield author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:31st Mar '07

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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.

ISBN: 9780719063268

Dimensions: 240mm x 170mm x 19mm

Weight: 703g

232 pages