Retro Style

Class, Gender and Design in the Home

Dr Sarah Elsie Baker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2013
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-0-85785-108-6 (ISBN)

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With the emergence of a contemporary desire for nostalgic interior style, "Retro" has inevitably become a highly valuable branch of interior design. Examining themes from production and consumption to cultural and social impacts on gender and class, Retro Style provides the essential critique of the modern vintage revival.

Retro interiors have come to the fore in recent years as a highly desirable and valuable branch of interior design. The emergence of a need for decorative objects and vintage furniture has resurrected retro style and placed it firmly as a key trend of contemporary design.

Retro Style: Class, Gender and Design in the Home is the first book to explore the modern position of retro by asking important questions around the emergence of the trend, its impact on production and consumption and how it manifests itself in the contemporary interior. Examining themes ranging from design, taste and the aestheticisation of everyday life to the bohemianisation of popular culture, the book provides a fascinating insight into how retro has shaped modern interior design.

Using original ethnographic research from retro retailers, enthusiasts, designers and media professionals Retro Style explores the positive and negative side of the style, ultimately providing an original and thought-provoking perspective on the history and trajectory of how retro has become what it now is and its bearing on the future of designed interiors.

Sarah Baker is Lecturer in Culture and Context at the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has researched and published numerous articles focussed on consumption and domestic space.

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Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The Definitions and Distinctions of Retro Style

3. Retro Style and the Cultural Politics of Everyday Life

4. A History of the Retro Aesthetic

5. Retailing Retro

6. Retro Interiors and Lifestyle Media

7. Retro Homes, Taste and Cultural Distinction

8. Retro Femininities and Domestic Labour

9. Conclusion

Appendix

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.7.2013
Zusatzinfo	22 halftones
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	424 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-85785-108-X / 085785108X
ISBN-13	978-0-85785-108-6 / 9780857851086
Zustand	Neuware