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“deborah sugg ryan”

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  • Ideal homes

    Uncovering the history and design of the interwar house

    by Deborah Sugg Ryan ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    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 ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Ideal homes, 1918–39

    Domestic design and suburban Modernism

    by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged through the architecture, design and decoration of the home, in choices such as ebony elephants ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Consuming Passions

    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    by Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime

    The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime

    by Joe Moran ...
    Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the history of these subjects as they come up during a typical day, starting with eating breakfast and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Shopgirls

    The True Story of Life Behind the Counter

    by Dr Pamela Cox, Annabel Hobley ...
    ‘[Go] behind the glamorous shop fronts and the glitzy shop floors of Britain’s department stores... Here the hidden history is revealed.’ Saga MagazineMeet the shopgirls and hear their incredible true stories of life behind the counter.In this lively and colourful history, we join shopgirl Chili Bouchier on her journey from the small ladies’ department at Harrods to star of the silver screen, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Raw Concrete

    The Beauty of Brutalism

    by Barnabas Calder ...
    AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARBeginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast, and ending up backstage at the National Theatre, Raw Concrete embarks on a wide-ranging journey through Britain over the past sixty years, stopping to examine how eight extraordinary buildings were made - from commission to construction - why they have been so vilified, and why they are beginning to be ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rothschild Buildings

    Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920

    by Jerry White ...
    Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H. Wingate Literary Award.Rothschild Buildings were typical of the 'model dwellings for the working classes' which were such an important part of the response to late-Victorian London's housing problem. They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the community which put down roots there was to be characteristic of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The New Museology

    Edited by Peter Vergo ...
    Series series Critical Views
    Traditionally, museums have concerned themselves with foremost with conservation and classification. But what is conserved, and why? How is it classified? And who does this benefit? Are exhibitions really designed with the visitor in mind? And what qualities of experience are being offered? These are just some of the pressing questions which the authors - museum professionals, historians and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Great Indoors

    At home in the modern British house

    by Ben Highmore ...
    'House' has long been synonymous with 'home': the significance of four walls and a roof lies far deeper than simply shelter from the elements. A house stands for sanctuary, family, belonging, privacy and our pasts: even when standardised as a 'Barratt Home' or modern housing estate, every house bears the stamp of the people who live in it, remaining a bastion of quirky individualism.The Great ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Design History

    A Students' Handbook

    Edited by Hazel Conway ...
    Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge of design history, art or architecture is assumed. ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    by Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD