Bringing Modernity Home

Judy Attfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Autobiography of a Nation

Becky E Conekin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• First full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. An examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951's Festival's exhibit... Lees meer

European Fashion

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The period since 1945 has been a transformative era for the fashion industry. Over the course of seventy years, the fashion world has moved from celeb... Lees meer

Dress and Globalisation

Margaret Maynard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies... Lees meer

Arts and Crafts Objects PB

Imogen Hart

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive 'Arts and Crafts movement' in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a s... Lees meer

No More Giants

Jessica Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book is a history of J. M. Richards' career as editor of The Architectural Review and as an architectural critic and writer from 1933-73. The boo... Lees meer

Material Relations

Jane Hamlett

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and... Lees meer

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900

Joanne Begiato

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth centu... Lees meer

The Senses in Interior Design

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of i... Lees meer

European Fashion

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This volume examines the cultural history of the fashion industry in the postwar era. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on th... Lees meer

Building Reputations

Conor Lucey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and archite... Lees meer

Crafting Identities

Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• What did it mean to be an artisan in early modern London? Through an innovative and inter-disciplinary approach to urban social, cultural and architec... Lees meer

The culture of fashion

Christopher Breward

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture | nr. 1
• This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provide... Lees meer

Bachelors of a Different Sort

John Potvin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain be... Lees meer

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900

Joanne Begiato

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth centu... Lees meer

Building Reputations

Conor Lucey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and archite... Lees meer

The Business of Time

Pierre-Yves Donzé

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the pres... Lees meer

The Matter of Art

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of both... Lees meer

Interiors of Empire

Robin Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empi... Lees meer

Anna of Denmark

Jemma Field

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It cont... Lees meer

Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France

Anca I Lasc

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction e... Lees meer

Art Versus Industry?

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations ... Lees meer

Deco Dandy

John Potvin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure of t... Lees meer

Political and Sartorial Styles

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Starting with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style, this collection explore... Lees meer