British design : tradition and modernity after 1948

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Wood, Ghislaine
• Fisher, Fiona
• Breward, Christopher

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9781474256209

Series

Subject(s)

• DESIGN--SOCIAL ASPECTS--GREAT BRITAIN--HISTORY--21ST CENTURY
• DESIGN-SOCIAL ASPECTS
• GREAT BRITAIN

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210) and index

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Abstract

British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport.

The contributors address significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space, and consider the work of key contemporary designers ranging from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from the immediate post-war period to the present day, has developed and changed how we live and how we interact with the spaces in which we live.

British Design is split into 13 chapters and is richly illustrated with 65 images, 16 of which are in full colour.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 221 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Front matter
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age: A Retrospective View 1–14
The Spaces and Places of British Modernity 15–24
1. The Primavera Story: 1946–67 25–40
2. Tommy Roberts: From Kleptomania to Two Columbia Road 41–50
3. John Fowler, Nancy Lancaster and the English Country House 51–64
4. At Home with Modern Design 1958–65: A Case Study 65–76
5. Conservative Flagship: Interior Design for RMS Windsor Castle, 1960 77–88
6. Bernat Klein: Colouring the Interior 89–100
7. Ancient Spaces in Modern Dress: Basil Spence at the University of Sussex 101–112
8. Architects Co-Partnership: Private Practice for Public Service 113–126
9. Something Fierce: Brutalist Historicism at Essex University Library 127–140
10. Hidden Internationalisms: Tradition and Modernism in Post-war Primary School Design, 1948–72 141–154
11. Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances: Modernist Pop and Modernist Architecture—A Short History of a Misunderstanding 155–172
12. Edinburgh on the Couch 173–190
13. Heatherwick Studio: A New Bus for London 191–204

Back matter
Select Bibliography 205–210
14. Plates 222–237

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00215/20	745.09410904 Bri	Online !	Available