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Terms and conditions applyDesigning the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature
Fred Gray
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Format: Book
Pages: 336
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Date Published: Aug 2006
Stock Code: 56782
Binding: Hardback
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In Designing the Seaside, Fred Gray provides a history of seaside architecture from the 18th century to the present day. He covers the formal and informal design processes involved in major buildings as well as ephemeral structures from piers and pavilions to resort parks and open spaces, to shops selling candy floss. While the books chief focus is Britain, it also contains numerous examples from the USA, Europe and the Far East.
Featuring informative and often entertaining photographs, architectural drawings, guidebooks, postcards and railway and publicity posters, this book provides a thoroughly readable as well as visually fascinating account of changing attitudes to holidaymaking and its setting. Gray explores questions of taste, fashion, class and gender and particularly how the seaside became a hotbed for issues of morality and sexuality from bathing machines to beauty pageants.
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