(Hardback)

Offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a different phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post second world war period through a series of accounts of developments in modern design history.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter, this work traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. It shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body.

(Hardback)

Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter, this work traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. It shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body.