Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the history of your own house. -- .
Includes a ground-breaking manifesto that calls for the establishment of a more inclusive, visitor-centred paradigm based on the shared experience of human habitation; draws inspiration from film, theatre, public art, and urban design to transform historic house museums; and rovides a how-to guide for making historic house museums sustainable.
Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes. -- .