UID:
almafu_9959240381302883
Format:
1 online resource (186 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-45300-0
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1-134-45301-9
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0-415-28449-X
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1-280-07519-8
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0-203-40201-4
Content:
What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960, examines in detail the professional and domestic spaces created by women who had money and the opportunity to achieve their ideal. Set against a background of accepted notions of modernity relating to design and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book provides a fascinating insight into women
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustration credits; Contributors; Introduction; Questions of identity: women, architecture and the Aesthetic Movement; Creating 'The New Room'; the Hall sisters of West Wickham and Richard Norman Shaw; Elsie de Wolfe and her female clients, 1905 15: gender, class and the professional interior decorator; Your place or mine? The client's contribution to domestic architecture; Architecture and reputation: Eileen Gray, gender, and modernism; Marie Dormoy and the architectural conversation; A house of her own; Dora Gordine and Dorich House (1936)
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Elizabeth Denby or Maxwell Fry? A matter of attributionSelect Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-41073-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-28448-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203402016
