An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day.
Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and the Director of Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century design and the modern interior with a special interest in the role of gender.
Introduction: Design and Culture revisited
PART I: Design and Modernity, 1900-1945
PART II: Design and Post-modernity, 1945-1990
PART III: Designing the New Century, 1990 to the present