Sixtiestyle: Home Decoration and Furnishing from 1960s - Softcover

Heathcote, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904750117 ISBN 13: 9781904750116

Publisher: Middlesex University Press, 2004

Synopsis

SIXTIESTYLE is a fascinating and colourful guide to all aspects of decoration and design in the 1960s home. Packed with full colour illustrations and photographs, the book shows the choices available to consumers during this period. David Heathcote has drawn on MoDA’s extensive collection of retail and trade catalogues, domestic magazines and household manuals to produce a vibrant and beautifully illustrated guide to the 1960s interior.

No other guide is as comprehensive in its coverage of the features of a home. Detailed sections include bathrooms and kitchens; fixtures and fittings; furniture; wallpapers and paints; carpets, cushions and upholstery; lighting; fireplaces and heating; and finishing touches. Each area is covered in comprehensive detail in a way that is highly informative while at the same time hugely enjoyable to read.

About this title

Review:

"Often inspiration for the future comes directly from the past
making [Sixtiestyle] a valuable reference tool." -- Justin Ryan & Colin McAllister, Scotland on Sunday

About the Author:

David Heathcote is a design and architectural historian, lecturer and curator. In 2002 he curated the critically acclaimed exhibition, Barbican: This Was Tomorrow. His most recent work is Penthouse Over the City: The Barbican and Modern Living and he is currently writing The Seventies House: Interior Angles – a study of 1970s European villas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Middlesex University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904750117
• ISBN 13: 9781904750116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64