Twentieth-Century Furniture: Materials, Manufacture and Markets

Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 Materials: wood plywood laminated wood particle board and hardboard bentwood plastics latex rubber & synthetic foams springing metal - sheet, tubular, wire and rod, aluminium others. Part 3 Technology and production: influence of wartime production efficiency factory layout machine use construction methods finishing processes machine decoration upholstery standardisation and typeforms. Part 4 The furniture industry: structure organisation and entrepreneurs attitudes to design marketing & advertising government restrictions. Part 5 Distribution: the role of the retailer organisation and structure of the trade - specialist retailers, concept stores, multiples, credit selling, superstores, others. Part 6 Patterns of consumption: the rise of the popular market 1900-1925 between the wars 1925-1940 wartime to prosperity 1940-1960 pluralism 1960-1992.