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

• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II