Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754-1851: Design as Interaction

ISBN-13: 9780754669289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 280 str.

Akiko Shimbo

Opis

Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions had on the standardisation of furniture production during this period. This study examines the role of pattern books and their readers; the construction of taste and style through negotiation; and daily interactions through showrooms and other services, to reveal the complexities of English material culture in a period of industrialisation.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Furniture design: sharing knowledge among craftspeople; Pattern books: communicating between producers and consumers; Forming taste and style: consumers' needs and participation; The showroom as mediator; Furniture repairs and services: building a clientele; Taste, state and the market: changing relationships between producers and consumers; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Akiko Shimbo is Professor in the Department of Architecture and Environment Systems, School of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan.