British design : tradition and modernity after 1948 / edited by Christopher Breward, Fiona Fisher and Ghislaine Wood.
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2015Description: 240 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472505378 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Space (Architecture) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Space (Architecture) -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century | Design -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Design -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century | Crafts | CraftsDDC classification: 745'.0941'0904 Summary: 'British Design' brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last 60 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.
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| 745.09034 CUM The arts and crafts movement / | 745.09034 CUM The arts and crafts movement / | 745.09051 CUL Cultural threads : transnational textiles today / | 745.0941 BRI British design : tradition and modernity after 1948 / | 745.0942 LAM Utopian craftsmen : The Arts and Crafts movement from the Cotswold to Chicago. | 745.0952 GRA Japanese design : art, aesthetics & culture / | 745.2 BAN 80s style : designs of the decade / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'British Design' brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last 60 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.
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