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Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Cli...

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Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Cli...

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Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Clive Edwards.

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Full title

Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Clive Edwards.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

Call Numbers

N338.47684/ 2

Record Identifier

74VKdP5VR8bM

MMS ID

991019846529702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

viii, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The development of a consuming culture -- 3. The rise of the retail tastemaker : eighteenth-century furniture and furnishing retailing and distribution -- 4. From being to well-being : the growing demand for comfort and convenience in the eighteenth-century home -- 5. The retai...

Publication information

Publisher

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

Place of Publication

Vermont

Date Published

c2005.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"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 thre...

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Full title

Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Clive Edwards.

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

The history of retailing and consumption.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-286) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2005.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N338.47684/ 2

Record Identifier

74VKdP5VR8bM

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdP5VR8bM

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ISBN

0754609065 :

9780754609063 (alk. paper)

0754609065 (alk. paper)

9780754609063 :

DDC

338.47684009

MMS ID

991019846529702626

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