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Kitchens are where we cook, clean, cry, talk, laugh, break things. Hugely symbolic - as well as practical - kitchens evoke thoughts of hearth and home, family and domesticity. People today commonly spend more refurbishing their kitchens than refurbishing any other room in the home. On kitchen units alone, annual expenditure in England has been around the billion pound mark for some time. And this only represents part of what people spend on a kitchen. For, when they do up their kitchens, people frequently also buy new machinery and nearly always buy new accessories. To get at the heart of the meaning, design and purpose of the modern kitchen, the author interviewed a sample of seventy four homeowners. She follows them through the process of shopping and purchasing a new kitchen, and she discusses the importance of layout, colour, shape and texture. She explores the dominant role that women play in shaping the appearance of a new kitchen and considers the evolution of the modern kitchen in the context of the consumer age. The first history of the fitted kitchen in England, this innovative new book will appeal to anyone interested in design, sociology, gender studies and cultural history.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Making of the Modern Kitchen
• Subtitle: A Cultural History
• Author: June Freeman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781859736944
• ISBN: 1859736947
• ID: 05347689
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2004

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