The Modernist Home by Tim Benton

The Modernist Home by Tim Benton

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Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air.

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The Modernist Home by Tim Benton

Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air.
Tim Benton is Professor of Art History at the Open University. He has co-curated a number of exhibitions, including Thirties: British Art and Design before the War (1979) and Art and Power (1996) and is joint editor of Art Deco 1910-1939 (V&A 2003).
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ISBN 13 9781851774760
ISBN 10 1851774769
Title The Modernist Home
Author Tim Benton
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher V & A Publishing
Year published 2006-02-22
Number of pages 96
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.