Man About the House: Home Improvement Hell from the 50s and 60s

Man About the House: Home Improvement Hell from the 50s and 60s

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Book Description
The recent boom in home improvement is actually a recurrent national obsession, as these entertaining magazine covers testify. These oh–so–inspirational magazines guaranteed your home would be state–of–the–art and gorgeous beyond belief. Projects included: making your own murals in linoleum, installing door chimes, making a foldaway breakfast bar, erecting a carport, and constructing that must–have kidney–shaped dressing table. Feel smugly superior to images of smiling couples enacting yesterday’s refurbishment faux pas as, blissfully unaware, you create tomorrow’s DIY nightmares today.

From the Publisher
These kitschy, side–splitting collections of old ads, magazine covers, and book jackets are designed for instant dispatch to friends, family, and loved ones. Each book contains 31 full–color postcards from The Advertising Archives—the most comprehensive image library of its kind in Europe. Little albums of suppressed memories from the Classic Age of Advertising.

Man about the House: Home Improvement Hell from the 50s and 60s (Advertising Archives S.),Archives,Prion,185375420X,Non-Classifiable,Novelty,Stationery / Gift Wrap,Architecture / Interior Design,DIY,Graphic design,Humour,INTERIOR DECORATION,Press & journalism,Stationery items,c 1945 to c 1960,c 1960 to c 1970

Book Contents:

1. Merkx + Girod: Frame Monographs of Contemporary Interior Architects
2. Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers C. 1600-1800: A Study of Scotland and Empires (History of Warfare, V. 17)
3. Mission Schools in Batakland (Studies in Christian Mission)
4. Modern Japanese Society (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik)
5. Muwassah, Zajal, Kharja: Bibliography of Eleven Centuries of Strophic Poetry and Music from Al-Andalus and Their Influence on East and West (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)
6. Mystic in the New World: Marie De L'Incarnation (1599-1672) (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)
7. New Directions in Biblical Theology: Papers of the Aarhus Conference, 16-19 September 1992 (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)
8. Nostalgia Home Plans: 100 Time-Honored Designs Updated With Today's Features
9. Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia: The Story of a Desert Knight : The Legend of Slewih Al-Atawi and Other Utaybah Heroes (Studies in Ar)
10. Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500: A Biographical Register (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, V. 18, etc.)

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