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About This Book
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers — arguing that modernizers 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 product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the "right to comfort" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.
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Table of contents
- At Home in Postwar France
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I — Modern Homes for a Modern Nation
- Chapter 1 — Building Homes, Building a Nation: State Experiments in Modern Living, 1945–1952
- Chapter 2 — Designing for the Classless Society: Modernist Architects and the "Art of Living"
- Chapter 3 — The Salon des Arts Ménagers: Teaching Women How to Make the Modern Home
- Part II — Mass Homes for a Changing Society
- Chapter 4 — Housing for the Greatest Number: The Housing Crisis and the Cellule d'Habitation, 1953–1958
- Chapter 5 — "Who Is the Author of a Dwelling?" From User to Inhabitant, 1959–1961
- Chapter 6 — Beyond the Functionalist Cell to the Urban Fabric, 1966–1973
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- Index