Turning houses into homes: a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Editor's preface -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The development of a consuming culture -- 3 The rise of the retail tastemaker: eighteenth-century furniture and furnishing retailing and distribution -- 4 From being to well-being: the growing demand for comfort and convenience in the eighteenth-century home -- 5 The retail revolution: the response to the demands from the nineteenth-century consumer -- 6 Consumption, identity and everyday life: nineteenth-century homes and their importance in society -- 7 Twentieth-century retail responses: from mass to niche marketing -- 8 Changing visions of the ideal and the real: the consumption of home furnishings in the twentieth century -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index