Deco Dandy

John Potvin

• Paperback | 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

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

Precarious Objects

Ilaria Vanni

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy. As a ... Lees meer

Crafting Design in Italy

Catharine Rossi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episode... 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

Surface Tensions

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde... 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

Bringing Modernity Home

Judy Attfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a different phase in the rise of the consumer society in the pos... 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

Art Versus Industry?

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations ... Lees meer

The Culture of Craft

Peter Dormer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are larg... Lees meer

The Study of Dress History

Lou Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress stu... 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

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

Building Reputations

Conor Lucey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and archite... Lees meer

Building Reputations

Conor Lucey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and archite... 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

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 exh... Lees meer

The Architecture of Social Reform

Isabel Rousset

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany . Lees meer

Anna of Denmark

Jemma Field

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Design and Material Culture
• This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It cont... 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

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

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
• Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordina... Lees meer