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

Main entry:

Edwards, Clive, 1947-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

The history of retailing and consumption

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-286) and index.
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 retail revolution : the response to the demands from the nineteenth-century consumer -- 6. Consumption, identity and everyday life : nineteenth-century homes and their importance in society -- 7. Twentieth-century retail responses : from mass to niche marketing -- 8. Changing visions of the ideal and the real : the consumption of home furnishings in the twentieth century -- 9. Conclusion

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 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." "This book offers a 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0754609065 (alk. paper)
9780754609063 (alk. paper)

Subject:

House furnishings industry and trade History.
Ameublement Industrie Histoire.
House furnishings industry and trade
Interieurkunst.
Meubels.
Sociaal-economische aspecten.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

History of retailing and consumption.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242589
Call No.: HD9773.A2 E38 2005
Status: Available

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