Interior design and identity

Herausgeber: McKellar, Susie; Sparke, Penny

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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. The book looks at the amateur activities of female 'home makers' in search of creative outlets and married couples seeking to modernise their homes as well as the contributions of early professional (female) 'interior decorators', and later, (male) 'interior designers'. It also considers the more anonymous role of commercial enterprises, such as hairdressing salons, ocean-going liners or modern offices as well as public institutions, such as hospitals or naval training establishments. Interior design and identity examines interior design in relation to the changing identities of its practitioners, its inhabitants and of the furnishings, focussing on the ways in which cultural values came to be embedded in the spaces which people inhabited and made their own. Issues relating to interiority, gender, and the relationship of the public sphere are also considered opening up a new level of design historical enquiry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067297
• ISBN-10: 0719067294
• Artikelnr.: 21656879

Autorenporträt

Susie McKellar is Researcher at the Royal College of Art Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History, and Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Music, at Kingston University

Inhaltsangabe

List 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 Bibliography Index