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Die meisten von uns kommen früher oder später in diese Situation: Die Eltern oder ein Verwandter sterben und alles, was zurückbleibt, muss geordnet, aufgehoben oder weggeworfen werden. So ergeht es auch Susannah Walker. Das Haus ihrer Mutter im englischen Worcester beherbergt ein Sammelsurium an Nippes, alten Fotos und Gebrauchsgegenständen, die jeweils eine Geschichte zu erzählen scheinen.Wie eine Alltagsarchäologin sortiert und befragt die A...

This extraordinary, beautiful memoir gripped me from the first page.' Clover Stroud, author of The Wild OtherWhat do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them?Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she'd never really kno...

After the constraints of the World War Two, the British embraced modern design like never before. From spindly-legged furniture to fabrics based on atomic design, quirkily patterned pottery to abstract graphics, they wanted everything around them to reflect the bright new post-war world.This book traces the development of modern design in the 1950s, from its first genteel beginnings at the Festival of Britain to the shops brimming with slick p...

Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975, Susannah Walker analyzes an often-overlooked facet of twentieth-century consumer society as she ...