Designing the Modern Interior

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010. Designing the Modern Interior reveals how the design of the inside spaces of our homes and public buildings is shaped by and shapes our modern culture. The modern interior has often been narrowly defined by the minimalist work of elite, reforming architects. But a shared modernising impulse, expressed in interior design, extends at least as far back as the Victorians and reaches to our own time. And this spirit of modernisation manifested itself in interiors, designed both by professionals and by amateurs, which did not necessarily look modern and often even aimed to imitate the past. Designing the Modern Interior presents a new history of the interior from the late 19th to the 21st century. Particular characteristics are consistent across this period: a progressive attitude towards technology; a hyper-consciousness of what it is to live in the present and the future; an overt relationship with the mass media, mass consumption and the marketplace; an emphasis on individualism, interiority and the 'self'; the construction of identities determined by gender, class, race, sexuality and nationhood; and the experiences of urban and suburban life.

ISBN 1847882870   Pages 320 ISBN13 9781847882875 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher A & C Black Publishers Ltd   Weight (grammes) 687 Imprint Berg Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 244 Publication date 01 Jun 2009   Width (mm) 189 Library of Congress 2009009833   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 729   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		General Introduction by Penny Sparke
Pt. 1		The Late-Nineteenth-Century Interior (1870-1900)
		Introduction by Emma Ferry
1		Plate Glass and Progress: Victorian Modernity at Home by Trevor Keeble
2		Privacy and Supervision in the Modernised Public House Interior 1872-1902 by Fiona Fisher
3		The German Interior at the End of the Nineteenth Century by Sabine Wieber
Pt. 2		The Early-Twentieth-Century Interior (1900-1940)
		Introduction by Penny Sparke
4		Taking Amusement Seriously: Modern Design in the Twenties by Christopher Reed
5		'The scene in which the daily drama of personal life takes place': Towards the Modern Interior in early 1930s Britain by Elizabeth Darling
6		The Modern Interior as the Geography of Image, Space and Subject by Irene Nierhaus
7		'Leaving Traces'. Anonymity in the Modernist House by Hilde Heynen
8		The Geography of the Diagram: The Rose Seidler House by Charles Rice
Pt. 3		The Mid-Twentieth-Century Interior (1940-1970)
		Introduction by Penny Sparke
9		Hans Scharoun and the Interior by Peter Blundell Jones
10		New Environments for Modern Living: 'At Home' with the Eameses by Pat Kirkham
11		Italy's New Domestic Landscape, 1945-1972 by Penny Sparke
12		Ocean Liners, Resort Hotels and the Architecture of Leisure by Alice T. Friedman
13		Nationalism and Design at the End of Empire by Anne Massey
Pt. 4		The Late-Twentieth-Century Interior: 1970-present
		Introduction by Trevor Keeble
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This volume is destined to become a model of disciplined interdisciplinary analysis. This exceptionally disciplined approach to a necessarily interdisciplinary convergence about modernity achieves model scholarship. Ample images situate and visually direct the discussion. Essential. L. Farooque, CHOICE Magazine

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