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Description: | Galleon Fireplaces of Surbiton exhibited at the 1961 Ideal Home exhibition and they are still manufacturing fireplaces today. The 1960s was a decade that saw many traditional features in houses ripped-out, in an attempt to modernise interiors. The fireplace, as the hub of the home, was often the first thing to go.
This list aptly demonstrates the 1960s fashion for low and natural-looking stone and marble surrounds on fireplaces, with long wooden mantels. Names like Craigleith Stone, Sandfaced Briquettes and Belgian Fossil Marble bring to mind those archetypal fireplaces that successive generations have ripped out and replaced with faux-Victorian tiled 'orginals'.
(JA) | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | Daily Mail Ideal Home, London | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1961 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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