HOMES OF THE BRAVE

by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 15, 1954

The home front will find some real poison penning (and pinning) here as decorator R-G takes over the progess of the American House. Houses and furniture -- and the resulting wake of left -over enthusiasms-; the visionary and the industrial result of THAT; the European fomentations and influences; the phantom of the ""modern man"" for whom all things are made; advances in the United States in physical comfort (look to your bathrooms'.); and more infiltration from Africa, Sweden, Japan, Hawaii, China and nature (trees in the living room, see...) -- well Edgar Guest would never recognize that little home to love, and that loves us. And it continues right into the ranch house (machine for living department), the elephantiasis of moving pictures, functional acrobatics and modern exhibitionism -- so that bevy-ed House & Gardeners will get a grim double-take of the double-talk handed them and a dose of chi-chi chagrin. Mary Petty's potty drawings accentuate this positively negative. For a flutter in the dove- cotes.

Pub Date: Feb. 15, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION