British design : tradition and modernity after 1948 /
edited by Christopher Breward, Fiona Fisher and Ghislaine Wood.
- xii, 221 pages ; 25 cm
"This book originates in a conference entitled Spaces and Places: British Design 1948-2012."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age: A Retrospective View, Christopher Breward, Edinburgh College of Art, UK and Ghislaine Wood, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK -- The Spaces and Places of British Modernity, Fiona Fisher and Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK -- 1. The Primavera Story, 1946-1967, Janine Barker, Northumbria University, UK and Cheryl Buckley, Parsons, The New School for Design and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, USA -- 2. Tommy Roberts: Kleptomania to Two Columbia Road, Paul Gorman, Visual Culture Writer, USA -- 3. John Fowler, Nancy Lancaster and the English Country House, Martin Wood, Designer and Writer, UK -- 4. At Home with Modern Design, 1958-1965: A Case Study, Christine Lalumia, Design Historian, UK -- 5. Conservative Flagship. Interior design for RMS Windsor Castle, 1960, Harriet McKay, Royal College of Art, UK -- 6. Bernat Klein: Colouring the Interior, Fiona Anderson, National Museums Scotland, UK -- 7. Ancient Spaces in Modern Dress: Basil Spence at the University of Sussex, Maurice Howard, University of Sussex, UK -- 8. Architects Co-partnership: Private Practice for Public Service, Alan Powers, University of Greenwich, UK -- 9. Something Fierce: Brutalist Historicism in the University of Essex Library, Jules Lubbock, University of Essex, UK -- 10. Hidden Internationalisms: Tradition and Modernism in Post-war Primary School Design 1948-1972, Catherine Burke, University of Cambridge, UK -- 11. Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. Modernist Pop and Modernist Architecture: A Short History of a Misunderstanding, Owen Hatherley, Journalist, UK -- 12. -- Edinburgh on the Couch, -- Richard J. Williams, University of Edinburgh, UK -- 13. Heatherwick Studio: A New Bus for London, Abraham Thomas, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK -- Bibliography -- Index.
"British Design brings together a collection of essays from international scholars, designers and journalists, offering new perspectives on the significance of British design in the last sixty years. The book reacts and responds to the changes that have taken place in the recent history of British Design, with case studies looking at, among others, domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools, universities and objects of transport. Chapters include investigations into a variety of significant historical and social moments from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers such as Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides the contemporary study of the developments within British design and provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from post-war Britain to today, has developed and changed how we live and interact with the spaces in which we live"--