Shaping the American Interior

Structures, Contexts and Practices
Herausgeber: Lupkin, Paula; Sparke, Penny

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book maps out the development of the larger professional structures of interior design in the US from 1870 to 1960.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138697706
• ISBN-10: 1138697702
• Artikelnr.: 52712988

Autorenporträt

Paula Lupkin is a historian of design, architecture, and cities. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the spatial production of modernity under capitalism, investigating its impact on the designed world and the built environment. Her research and publications, including her first book, Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), address the ways that architecture, interiors, cities, and landscapes shaped and were shaped by new ways of living, working, designing, and consuming. Her work has been supported by the Charles Warren Center at Harvard, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, and the Clements Center for Southwestern Studies at Southern Methodist University. Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London. She studied French Literature at the University of Sussex from 1967 to 1971 and was awarded her PhD in Design History from Brighton Polytechnic in 1975. She taught Design History at Brighton Polytechnic (1975-1982) and the Royal College of Art (1982-1999). She has given keynote addresses, curated exhibitions, and broadcast and published widely. Her publications include Italian Design from 1860 to the Present (1989); The Plastics Age (1990); As Long as It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995); An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the Present (3rd edition, 2004); Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005); and The Modern Interior (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paula Lupkin and Penny Sparke 1. Interior Designers of all
Kinds: The Roles of Architects, Craftsmen, Furniture Manufacturers, and
Clients in Creating Nineteenth-Century Domestic Interiors Erica Donnis and
Susan Porter 2. Dealing in Interiors: How Maison Carlhian and Duveen
Brothers Shaped European Spaces in America Teresa Morales and Anne-Marie
Schaaf 3. Elsie de Wolfe: A Professional Interior Decorator Penny Sparke
4. Fags, Queens and Fairies: (Re)locating the Professional Gay Decorator in
the History and Historiography of Interior Decorating John Potvin 5. For
Men by Men: The YMCA Furnishings Bureau Paula Lupkin 6. The Art in Trades
Club: Selling Style and Taste Patty Edmonson 7. "Principles Not Effects":
The Museum Of Modern Art and the Discourse of Legitimization for Interior
Design in Post-War America Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand 8. Demonstrating the
Profession: Interior Design on Television Danielle Charlap 9. Co-Eds and
T-Squares: Mid Twentieth Century Design Education Patrick Lee Lucas 10.
Imaging Interior Design: beneath, beside, and within Architecture Penelope
Dean 11. "Apology Areas:" Interior Decoration and the Marketplace in the
1950s Kristina Wilson