Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski  (19)
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Where once we dwelt in soft and furry interiors, surrounded by carpets, cloth coverings, and other dust-prone, hard-to-clean surfaces, we now spend much of our time in tiled rooms surrounded by smooth-skinned appliances. The story of how the modern bathroom and kitchen came to be is told in The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste. It was in these two rooms that the greatest transformation in home engineering occurred. A process for bringing clean water in and removing waste water transformed the home into a quasi-organic being, eating and excreting through an alimentary system whose inherent cleanliness influenced the design of the rooms where it was housed. Ellen Lupton and J. Abbot Miller present the history of this change in words and historical images in this attractive and surprisingly informative volume.
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Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass-produced, mass-distributed, and designed to be rapidly replaced by the buying public. The same period also saw the rise of the modern bathroom and kitchen as newly equipped spaces for administering bodily care The streamlined style of modern design, which served the new ideals of hygiene and the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence, emanated from the domestic landscape of the bathroom and kitchen. The Bathroom, the Kitchen analyzes these developments with text and historical photographs, drawings, sketches, advertisements, and catalog pages.
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Where once we dwelt in soft and furry interiors, surrounded by carpets, cloth coverings, and other dust-prone, hard-to-clean surfaces, we now spend much of our time in tiled rooms surrounded by smooth-skinned appliances. The story of how the modern bathroom and kitchen came to be is told in The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste. It was in these two rooms that the greatest transformation in home engineering occurred. A process for bringing clean water in and removing waste water transformed the home into a quasi-organic being, eating and excreting through an alimentary system whose inherent cleanliness influenced the design of the rooms where it was housed. Ellen Lupton and J. Abbot Miller present the history of this change in words and historical images in this attractive and surprisingly informative volume.
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Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass-produced, mass-distributed, and designed to be rapidly replaced by the buying public. The same period also saw the rise of the modern bathroom and kitchen as newly equipped spaces for administering bodily care The streamlined style of modern design, which served the new ideals of hygiene and the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence, emanated from the domestic landscape of the bathroom and kitchen. The Bathroom, the Kitchen analyzes these developments with text and historical photographs, drawings, sketches, advertisements, and catalog pages.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 52 books Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: continuous kitchen, creative waste, prefabricated bathroom, plumbing industry, vitreous china (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: New York, Christine Frederick, Raymond Loewy, Architectural Record Vol, Standard Sanitary Mfg (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass produced and mass distributed, designed to be purchased and rapidly replaced by a vast buying public. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
continuous kitchen, creative waste, prefabricated bathroom, plumbing industry, vitreous china, base cabinets, kitchen design, modern bathroom, household technology, servant problem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Christine Frederick, Raymond Loewy, Architectural Record Vol, Standard Sanitary Mfg, Catharine Beecher, Buckminster Fuller, Oxford University Press, Richard Neutra, Siegfried Giedion, Egmont Arens, Henry Dreyfuss, Hoosier Manufacturing Company, House Beautiful, Adolph Loos, Erna Meyer, George Sakier, Harold van Doren, Mechanization Takes Command, National Sanitary Manufacturing Company, The Streamlined Decade, Trenton Potteries Company New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass produced and mass distributed, designed to be purchased and rapidly replaced by a vast buying public. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
continuous kitchen, creative waste, prefabricated bathroom, plumbing industry, vitreous china, base cabinets, kitchen design, modern bathroom, household technology, servant problem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Christine Frederick, Raymond Loewy, Architectural Record Vol, Standard Sanitary Mfg, Catharine Beecher, Buckminster Fuller, Oxford University Press, Richard Neutra, Siegfried Giedion, Egmont Arens, Henry Dreyfuss, Hoosier Manufacturing Company, House Beautiful, Adolph Loos, Erna Meyer, George Sakier, Harold van Doren, Mechanization Takes Command, National Sanitary Manufacturing Company, The Streamlined Decade, Trenton Potteries Company New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Mechanization Takes Command by S. Giedion on 4 pages
- Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss on page 1, page 65, and Back Matter
- Electrical Appliances by Penny Sparke on page 13, page 48, and Back Matter
- Never Leave Well Enough Alone by Raymond Loewy on page 5, page 67, and Back Matter
- Objects of Desire by Adrian Forty on page 13, page 19, and Back Matter
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