Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Cottage in Interwar EnglandCondition: NewSubtitle: Class and the PicturesqueEAN: 9781848226982ISBN: 9781848226982Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/25/2024Description: The 20 years between First and Second World Wars were a time of dramatic development for English people and their homes. By the end of the 1930s, one family in three was living in an interwar house. But one thing that did not change was the sentimental affection of the English for the idea of the cottage picturesque – a problematic continuity, with class and cultural dimensions, that inflected English domestic architecture long after the theorisation of the Picturesque in the 1790s. This book explores the powerful hold on the national imagination of cottage architecture in the interwar period and its hitherto under-examined influence on the politics and aesthetics of class, council housing, conservation, and on the 1920s and 1930s boom in speculative house-building. The book examines the relationships between working-class council houses specifically steered away from looking like the cottage picturesque; traditional cottages appropriated by middle-class weekenders, adopted by conservationists, and mythologised by politicians in the 1920s; new-build speculative housing that the public bought (in the 1920s and 1930s) and architects deprecated because it was designed to evoke the cottage; and early modernist houses, celebrated by architects but treated with suspicion by the public because their aesthetics were at odds with the Picturesque tradition.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 250mmItem Length: 190mmItem Width: 22mmAuthor: George EntwistleGenre: Architecture & AntiquesBook Series: Architectural History of the British IslesRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Cottage in Interwar England
Title: The Cottage in Interwar England
Subtitle: Class and the Picturesque
EAN: 9781848226982
ISBN: 9781848226982
Release Date: 11/25/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Architectural History of the British Isles
Book Title: Cottage in Interwar England : Class and the Picturesque
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers, The Limited
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Buildings / Residential, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 9.9 in
Author: George Entwistle
Item Width: 7.5 in
Book Series: Architectural History of the British Isles Ser.
Format: Hardcover
