{"product_id":"from-palaces-to-pre-fabs-pioneering-women-interior-decorators-and-designers","title":"From Palaces to Pre-fabs","description":"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. \n\nEarly 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.\n\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Palaces to Pre-fabs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to restore the reputation of such women working in what was the largely male-dominated world of interior design.","brand":"Artmonsky Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32085903409235,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780993587849__6774a76125333.jpg?v=1741134639","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/from-palaces-to-pre-fabs-pioneering-women-interior-decorators-and-designers","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}