Description
Book SynopsisThis fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Table of ContentsList of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Penny Sparke
1. Women’s creativity and display in the eighteenth-century British interior - Katherine Sharpe
2. Comfort and gentility: Furnishings by Gillows, Lancaster, 1840-1855 - Amanda Girling-Budd
3. A semblance of home: Mental asylum interiors, 1880-1914 - Mary Guyatt
4. The domestic interior and the construction of self: The New York homes of Elsie de Wolfe - Penny Sparke
5. Chintz, swags and bows: The myth of English country house style, 1930-1990 - Louise Ward
6. The role of the interior in constructing notions of class and status: A case-study of Brittania Royal Naval College Dartmouth, 1905-1939 - Quintin Colville
7. Feminine spaces, modern experiences: The design and display strategies of British hairdressing salons in the 1920s and 1930s - Emma Gieben-Gamal
8. Pragmatism and pluralism: The interior decoration of the ‘Queen Mary’ - Fiona Walmesley
9. ‘Constructing contemporary’: Common-sense approaches to ‘going modern’ in the 1950s - Scott Oram
10. After modernism: The contemporary office environment - Jeremy Myerson
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