Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Questions of identity -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Creating 'The New Room' -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Elsie de Wolfe and her female clients, 1905-15 -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Your Place or Mine? The client's contribution to domestic architecture -- The Schröder House -- Josephine Baker -- Paul Rudolph's apartment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Architecture and reputation -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Marie Dormoy and the architectural conversation -- Notes -- Chapter 7 A house of her own -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Elizabeth Denby or Maxwell Fry? -- The collaboration -- A matter of attribution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960, examines in detail the professional and domestic spaces created by women who had money and the opportunity to achieve their ideal. Set against a background of accepted notions of modernity relating to design and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book provides a fascinating insight into women's social aspirations and identities. It offers new information and new interpretations in the study of gender, material culture and the built environment in the period 1860-1960.

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