Flanders, Judith, author.

The making of home / Judith Flanders.

London : Atlantic Books, 2014.

xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

The idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us in the twenty-first century that we barely pause to think about it. But, as the author shows in this book, "home" is a relatively new idea. When in 1900, Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that "there is no place like home," she was expressing a view that was the climax of 300 years of change. This book traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, and shows how the "homes" we know bear only a faint resemblance to "homes" though history. Along the way, the author investigates the development of ordinary household items - from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to the fitted kitchen, plumbing and windows - while also dismantling many domestic myths.

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Home.
Home History.
Asylums.
Foyer.
Foyer Histoire.
Établissements d'assistance publique.
asylums (welfare buildings)
home (concept)
21.84 interior design and decoration.
Customs and Folklore.

History

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