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consumer society Britain
Credit Selling
Domestic Furnishings
Eighteenth Century Furniture
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furnishings
Furniture Retailer
gender and domesticity
Giles Corrozet
Hire Purchase
historical retail consumption patterns
Home Furnishings
Home Selling
House Furnishers
interior design history
James King
John Maple
Lady Clonbrony
London Cabinet Maker
material culture studies
Nineteenth Century Bourgeois Families
Nineteenth Century Home
Resale Price Maintenance
Retail Furnisher
retail industry evolution
Retail Showroom
Retailer's Role
Retailer’s Role
Samuel Pepys's Diary
Samuel Pepys’s Diary
Sixteenth Century Onward
social mobility eighteenth century
Stana Nenadic
Tottenham Court Road
Wall Hangings
Product details
- ISBN 9781138263666
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a major commercial sector dedicated to offering the products and services essential to feed the ever-changing dictates of domestic fashion. Whilst there is plentiful evidence to show that these phenomena can be traced to medieval times, it is arguable that the eighteenth century witnessed the birth of a widespread and sophisticated consumer society. With a comparatively wealthy and socially mobile society, eighteenth-century Britain proved to be a fertile ground for ideas of home improvement and beautification, which were to persist to the present day. Turning Houses into Homes not only maps the history, changes, development and structure of the retail furnishing industry in Britain over three centuries, but also examines the relationships between the retailer and the consumer, looking at how retailers helped stimulate and shape the demand of their customers. Whilst work has been done on specific aspects of the home, very little has been written on the interaction between the retailer and consumer, and the pressures brought to bear on them by issues such as gender, education, status, symbolism, taste, decoration, hygiene, comfort and entertainment. As such, this book offers a valuable conjunction of retail history and consumption practices, which are examined through a multi-disciplinary approach to explore both their intimate connections and their wider roles in society.
Clive Edwards is a Senior Lecturer and Research Co-ordinator in the School of Art and Design at Loughborough University, UK.
