Designing Modern Britain
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Designing Modern Britain
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Author : Cheryl Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2007-10
Designing Modern Britain written by Cheryl Buckley and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Design categories.
Employing numerous examples of classic British design, Designing Modern Britain delves into the history of British design culture, and thereby tracks the evolution of the British national identity.
The Invention Of Comfort
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Author : John E. Crowley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
The Invention Of Comfort written by John E. Crowley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
A history and analysis of the development of domestic design in early modern Britain and America. How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory. Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this pathbreaking work brings together such disparate topics of analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and anxiety—especially about the night. “Riveting. . . . A solid contribution to the literature on the cultural impact of gentility, refinement, and the “baubles of Britain” in England and its colonial possessions.” —Journal of American History “Crowley provides a masterly search and survey that no historian of material culture should miss, and every curious reader should consider.” —Eugen Weber, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter “A comprehensive and tight study . . . a valuable contribution to the field, [and] one that is enjoyable to read.” —Emma Hart, English Historical Review “The sheer range of evidence, the interweaving of themes, and the overall strength of the argument mean [this] is an ideal book for specialists and students alike.” —Helen Clifford, Journal of Design History “The Invention of Comfort is an important and thought-provoking book that challenges our understanding of why people live that way they do.” —Marie Morgan, New England Quarterly
1950s Modern
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Author : Susannah Walker
language : en
Publisher: Shire Publications
Release Date : 2012-10-23
1950s Modern written by Susannah Walker and has been published by Shire Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Design categories.
After the constraints of the World War Two, the British embraced modern design like never before. From spindly-legged furniture to fabrics based on atomic design, quirkily patterned pottery to abstract graphics, they wanted everything around them to reflect the bright new post-war world. This book traces the development of modern design in the 1950s, from its first genteel beginnings at the Festival of Britain to the shops brimming with slick products at the end of the decade. Looking at both well-known classics and popular favourites, the work of famous designers and anonymous innovators it's a great introduction to the flamboyant and sometimes kitsch style of the decade when we learnt to love the modern for the first time.
British Design
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Author : Christopher Breward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-22
British Design written by Christopher Breward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with Design categories.
British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport. The contributors address significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space, and consider the work of key contemporary designers ranging from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from the immediate post-war period to the present day, has developed and changed how we live and how we interact with the spaces in which we live. British Design is split into 13 chapters and is richly illustrated with 65 images, 16 of which are in full colour.
Modern Britain 1929 1939
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Author : James Peto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Modern Britain 1929 1939 written by James Peto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Art, British categories.
British Modern
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Author : Susannah Charlton
language : en
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Release Date : 2007
British Modern written by Susannah Charlton and has been published by Paul Holberton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
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Designing The Modern Interior
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Author : Penny Sparke
language : en
Publisher: Berg 3pl
Release Date : 2009-06
Designing The Modern Interior written by Penny Sparke and has been published by Berg 3pl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06 with Design categories.
Presents a history of interior design from the late 19th to the 21st centuries, and examines particular characteristics that are consistent across this period.
British Design
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Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
language : en
Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
Release Date : 2010
British Design written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and has been published by 5 Continents Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was inevitably the epicenter of the development of modern industrial design. This book-the fourth volume in the "MoMA Design Series," featuring works in the Museum's extraordinary design collection-explores this legacy, tracing the growth of British design from the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century to the Millennium Dome and beyond. In its more than 200-year scope, "British Design" explores a variety of design products and movements, such as Wedgwood pottery, the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes of World War II, the Mini car and Dyson vacuum cleaner, the "Cool Britannia" cultural explosion in the late 1990s and British designers' take on the digital devices that define entertainment and communication in the early twenty-first century. An introduction by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, provides an overview of design culture in Britain; an essay and timeline by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, former design critic for "The New Statesman" and author of "The Most Beautiful Molecule" and "New American," illuminate the masterpieces of modern British design superbly reproduced in the volume's plate section.
British Design From 1948
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Author : Ghislaine Wood
language : en
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Release Date : 2012
British Design From 1948 written by Ghislaine Wood and has been published by Victoria & Albert Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art and design categories.
Catalog of the exhibition "British design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Mar. 31-Aug. 12, 2012.
Modern British Furniture
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Author : Lesley Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Release Date : 2013-11-19
Modern British Furniture written by Lesley Jackson and has been published by Victoria & Albert Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Design categories.
Focusing on design ingenuity, Modern British Furniture pinpoints the most inventive British designers and companies from 1945 to the present - from early postwar pioneers such as Ernest Race, Robin Day and Robert Heritage, to iconoclastic figures such as Peter Murdoch, William Plunkett and Max Clendinning, to today's global superstars led by Tom Dixon, Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison. Exploring the free-spirited and resourceful character of British design, this is a story of entrepreneurs who spearheaded their own companies - Lucian Ercolani at Ercol, Terence Conran at Habitat and Rodney Kinsman at OMK, among others - and the creative alliances between impassioned individuals and enlightened manufacturers, such as Frank Guille at Kandya. The book also looks at collaborations with international companies and foreignborn designers, such as El Ultimo Grito, who have adopted the UK as their base and injected further variety and spice into British furniture design.--