1st Edition
Design at Home Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945
By Grace Lees Maffei
Copyright 2013
250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Domestic advice literature is rich in information about design, ideals of domesticity, consumption and issues of identity, yet this literature remains a relatively neglected resource in comparison with magazines and film. Design at Home brings together etiquette, homemaking and home decoration advice as sources in the first systematic demonstration of the historical value of domestic advice... Read more
Introduction - Defining a Genre: Domestic Advice Literature Part I 1. The Roots of Domestic Advice Literature 2. Real Ideals: Advice and Fiction Part II 3. From Decline and Fall to Rise and Sprawl: Advice for the Middle Classes 4. Easier Living? Lady Behave! Advice and Gender 5. Advice and the Teenage Consumer at Home Conclusion
Biography
Grace Lees-Maffei is a Reader in Design History at the University of Hertfordshire and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History. She researches the mediation of design, edited Writing Design: Words and Objects and co-edited Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design and The Design History Reader.
