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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819472203321

Titolo

Women's places : architecture and design 1860-1960 / / edited by Brenda Martin and Penny Sparke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-45300-0

1-134-45301-9

0-415-28449-X

1-280-07519-8

0-203-40201-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinBrenda

SparkePenny

Disciplina

720/.82

Soggetti

Women architects

Women designers

Aesthetic movement (Art)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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)

Elizabeth Denby or Maxwell Fry? A matter of attributionSelect Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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