AT HOME IN POSTWAR FRANCE

After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home i n Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizer s looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building/ designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society/ and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid pr oduct of...[Read more]