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



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Titolo: Women's places : architecture and design 1860-1960 / / edited by Brenda Martin and Penny Sparke Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
Disciplina: 720/.82
Soggetto topico: Women architects
Women designers
Aesthetic movement (Art)
Altri autori: MartinBrenda  
SparkePenny  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Women's places  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-45300-0
1-134-45301-9
0-415-28449-X
1-280-07519-8
0-203-40201-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819472203321
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