The modernist home / Tim Benton.

Main entry:

Benton, Tim, 1945-

Title & Author:

The modernist home / Tim Benton.

Publication:

London : V & A Publications, 2006.

Description:

96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 6th April to 23rd July 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Art and life : house and home -- Modernism and modernity -- Modernist ideas -- The modernist client -- The rise of modernism -- The warming of modernism -- Modernism on trial -- Further reading -- Index.

Summary:

Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utipian modernist principles to day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light, and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air.

ISBN:

9781851774760 (cased)
1851774769 (cased)

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture, Domestic History 20th century.
Interior decoration History 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture domestique Histoire 20e siècle.
Décoration intérieure Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic
Interior decoration
Woningen.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Modernism (arkitektur)
Bostadshus.
1880-1939

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
History
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294697
Call No.: BIB 240488
Status: Available

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