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Description:From the front-inside dustcover:At dusk, in winter, there is a time when lights are on and curtains are not yet drawn and you can see, uninvited, through the windows into other people’s lives. But the opportunity is brief: once night comes and the outside world intrudes, the curtains are quickly drawn. “The Name of the Room” provides four accounts of the formation of the home by established writers in the field of architecture, each concentrating on different parts of the house and home, and presenting a complete picture of the British house and home, its history and the reasons for its evolution.Focusing on the public rooms used primarily by visitors, Tony Rivers charts the rise in stature of the house from its humble, earthy origins. On a journey exploring the sophistication of the Roman villa and the ornate staircases of the English aristocracy, he traces the development of both the hovels and the great halls of the past to the utilitarian semi-detached houses of today. He illustrates how our present-day homes have firmly returned to their more practical origins, and explores the relationship between people and the places they live in.In contrast, Dan Cruickshank writes about the search for privacy in the more intimate rooms of the house. “Private Parts” reflects on the history of the bedroom and bathroom, revealing how it is the furniture and fittings in these rooms – most notably the bed – that has most influenced their evolution.Gillian Darley, in “The Power House” demonstrates the long route from a pile of wood (and a long walk to the nearest stream) to the convenient and stylish labour-saving kitchens of today. She concludes that the current preoccupation with the farmhouse-look or high-tech finish serve merely to disguise the fact that the kitchen is still a room which, for women, is associated with repetitive tasks and hard work.Martin Pawley examines the ‘utopian’ public housing movements that followed the two world wars, the coming of television, and the impact on British home life caused by the arrival of American culture. “The Electronic Cottage” tells the fascinating story of the rise of home-ownership, the great house-price boom of 1970 – 1988, and the fantastic new world of homes created in its wake.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Name of the Room: A History of the British House & Home. To get started finding The Name of the Room: A History of the British House & Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: BBC Books

Release: 1992

ISBN: 0563363215

Description: From the front-inside dustcover:At dusk, in winter, there is a time when lights are on and curtains are not yet drawn and you can see, uninvited, through the windows into other people’s lives. But the opportunity is brief: once night comes and the outside world intrudes, the curtains are quickly drawn. “The Name of the Room” provides four accounts of the formation of the home by established writers in the field of architecture, each concentrating on different parts of the house and home, and presenting a complete picture of the British house and home, its history and the reasons for its evolution.Focusing on the public rooms used primarily by visitors, Tony Rivers charts the rise in stature of the house from its humble, earthy origins. On a journey exploring the sophistication of the Roman villa and the ornate staircases of the English aristocracy, he traces the development of both the hovels and the great halls of the past to the utilitarian semi-detached houses of today. He illustrates how our present-day homes have firmly returned to their more practical origins, and explores the relationship between people and the places they live in.In contrast, Dan Cruickshank writes about the search for privacy in the more intimate rooms of the house. “Private Parts” reflects on the history of the bedroom and bathroom, revealing how it is the furniture and fittings in these rooms – most notably the bed – that has most influenced their evolution.Gillian Darley, in “The Power House” demonstrates the long route from a pile of wood (and a long walk to the nearest stream) to the convenient and stylish labour-saving kitchens of today. She concludes that the current preoccupation with the farmhouse-look or high-tech finish serve merely to disguise the fact that the kitchen is still a room which, for women, is associated with repetitive tasks and hard work.Martin Pawley examines the ‘utopian’ public housing movements that followed the two world wars, the coming of television, and the impact on British home life caused by the arrival of American culture. “The Electronic Cottage” tells the fascinating story of the rise of home-ownership, the great house-price boom of 1970 – 1988, and the fantastic new world of homes created in its wake.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Name of the Room: A History of the British House & Home. To get started finding The Name of the Room: A History of the British House & Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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