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
• Dress and globalisation is the first work to survey dress around the world, drawing together issues of consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as... Lees meer

Comradely Objects

Yulia Karpova

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia's first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Sovi... Lees meer

No More Giants

Jessica Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Architecture is more than buildings and architects. It also involves photographers, writers, advertisers and broadcasters, as well as the people who f... 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

Material Relations

Jane Hamlett

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Material relations, now available in paperback, tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the dome... Lees meer

The Senses in Interior Design

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters ... Lees meer

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900

Joanne Begiato

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it s... Lees meer

Crafting Identities

Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual and political status... Lees meer

Building Reputations

Conor Lucey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilita... Lees meer

European Fashion

• Paperback | 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

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

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900

Joanne Begiato

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it s... Lees meer

Bachelors of a Different Sort

John Potvin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicate... Lees meer

Building Reputations

Conor Lucey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilita... Lees meer

The Business of Time

Pierre-Yves Donzé

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the Unite... 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

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

Anna of Denmark

Jemma Field

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultu... Lees meer

Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France

Anca I Lasc

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecti... Lees meer

Ideal Homes, 1918-39

Deborah Sugg Ryan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordin... Lees meer

Art Versus Industry?

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book is about encounters between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain. It looks beyond the oppositions established by later interpretat... Lees meer