A01=Ruth Artmonsky
A01=Stella Harpley
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Author_Ruth Artmonsky
Author_Stella Harpley
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British
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decorators
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furniture
Interior design
interiors
Language_English
male-dominated
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palaces
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pre-fabs
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Suffragette
women designers
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- ISBN 9780993587849
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 175 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Artmonsky Arts
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Although how we furnished our homes in the latter part of the 20th century was largely influenced by two men - Terence Conran of Habitat and Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA - a number of women attempted, in their various ways, to influence our taste when it came to how we lived.
Early on were the Victorian/Edwardian women, often associated with the Suffragette movement who both designed and sold furniture. These were followed, after WWI, by others also breaking social rank - the society hostesses - totally untrained but full of confidence, and having their own 'interiors' admired, saw a way of supplementing their incomes by imposing their tastes on others. Meanwhile a few women were proselytising their concerns for well-crafted and designed products, through retail outlets from small financially precarious shops, to running part of the prestigious store, Heals. Wartime threw up an altogether more professional group - the 'doers' - those empowered to 'do it themselves' . Additionally there were a handful of professional furniture designers and another small groups looking to the design needs of the masses rather than the comfortably off.
From Palaces to Pre-fabs sets out to restore the reputation of such women working in what was the largely male-dominated world of interior design.
