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British Design
Tradition and Modernity after 1948
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British Design
Tradition and Modernity after 1948
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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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors' Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age: A Retrospective View Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood
- The Spaces and Places of British Modernity Penny Sparke and Fiona Fisher
- 1 The Primavera Story: 1946–67 Janine Barker and Cheryl Buckley
- 2 Tommy Roberts: From Kleptomaniato Two Columbia Road Paul Gorman
- 3 John Fowler, Nancy Lancaster and the English Country House Martin Wood
- 4 At Home with Modern Design 1958–65: A Case Study Christine Lalumia
- 5 Conservative Flagship: Interior Design for RMS Windsor Castle, 1960 Harriet McKay
- 6 Bernat Klein: Colouring the Interior Fiona Anderson
- 7 Ancient Spaces in Modern Dress: Basil Spence at the University of Sussex Maurice Howard
- 8 Architects Co-Partnership: Private Practice for Public Service Alan Powers
- 9 Something Fierce: Brutalist Historicism at Essex University Library Jules Lubbock
- 10 Hidden Internationalisms: Tradition and Modernism in Post-war Primary School Design, 1948–72 Catherine Burke
- 11 Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances: Modernist Pop and Modernist Architecture—A Short History of a Misunderstanding Owen Hatherley
- 12 Edinburgh on the Couch Richard J. Williams
- 13 Heatherwick Studio: A New Bus for London Abraham Thomas
- Select Bibliography
- Index