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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deco Dandy

John Potvin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping ex... 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

Surface Tensions

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than 'deeper' or more 'substantive' aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to co... Lees meer

Interior Design and Identity

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as ... Lees meer

The Architecture of Social Reform

Isabel Rousset

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture's obsession with domesticity. Copiously illustr... Lees meer

Critical Design in Japan

Ory Bartal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practi... Lees meer

Windows for the World

Jasmine Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Aust... Lees meer