Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Acknowledgements; The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design; Suburban: class, gender and home ownership; Modernisms: 'good design' and 'bad design'; Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife; Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of Empire; Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal home; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm
