Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Cli...
Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Cli...
Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Clive Edwards.
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Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
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N338.47684/ 2
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Language
English
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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...
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Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
Place of Publication
Vermont
Date Published
c2005.
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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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Turning houses into homes : a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings / Clive Edwards.
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Notes
General note
The history of retailing and consumption.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-286) and index.
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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
