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Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors from the late sixteenth century to today. It provides new insight on the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and decoration.

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Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors from the late sixteenth century to today. It provides new insight on the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and decoration.

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Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of productioninto dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

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This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Australia between 1851 and 1900. It provides new perspectives for the study of nineteenth-century stained glass, within these temporary secular exhibition contexts. -- .

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This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Australia between 1851 and 1900. It provides new perspectives for the study of nineteenth-century stained glass, within these temporary secular exhibition contexts.

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This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.

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This book explores how we theorize about fashion, responding to a new increasing attention to critical theory and philosophy in the fashion industry.

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This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian visual culture.

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This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity. Through rigorous research, it offers insight into their lasting impact on Soviet and Post-Soviet culture.

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Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production-into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

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A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.

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A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.

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Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957 -- .

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Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death. -- .

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The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume. The book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of objects, not just their condition when new. -- .

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Peter Dormer presents a series of discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the difference between a craft and a modern technology.

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Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies.

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In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore

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An in-depth discussion of the recent historiography of the Independent Group, examining its history from the alternative perspective of popular culture -- .

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Drawing on research and models from anthropology, material culture and art history, this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework, cork platforms for shoes and the Christian Eucharist. -- .