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Ideal homes

Uncovering the history and design of the interwar house

By Deborah Sugg Ryan

Ideal homes
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  • Price: £12.99
  • ISBN: 9781526150677
  • Publish Date: Apr 2020
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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  • ISBN: 9781526152251
  • Publish Date: Apr 2020
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    Book Information

    • Format: eBook
    • Published Date: April 2020
    • Series: Manchester University Press

    Description

    Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a period when homeownership was becoming the norm, these communities sought out varieties of architecture and design that were both nostalgic and modern, reflecting longings for 'Old England' on the one hand and technological convenience on the other. The book draws on exhibitions, memoirs, advertisements and films, as well as surviving examples of suburban architecture and interiors, to identify a distinctively suburban modernism, embodied by the Tudorbethan semi. Arguing that the 'ideal' home of the period was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation, it concludes by considering how such houses are lived in today. This new edition also features an introductory chapter on researching the history of your own home.

    Awards

    2020

    2020 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800

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