The making of home : the 500-year story of how our houses became our homes / Judith Flanders.
Title:
The making of home : the 500-year story of how our houses became our homes / Judith Flanders.
ISBN:
9781250067357
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
©2014
Physical Description:
xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
Contents:
Home thoughts : an introduction -- The family way -- A room of one's own -- Home and the world -- Home furnishings -- Building myths -- Hearth and home -- The home network -- Not at home.
Summary:
"Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes throughout history. What turned a house into a home?"--Dust jacket flap.
OCLC Number:
ocn910009219
Availability:
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