Title & Author:

Craft, space and interior design, 1855-2005 / edited by Sandra Alfoldy and Janice Helland.

Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.

Description:

xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Sandra Alfoldy and Janice Helland -- Hot by design: the secret life of a Turkish bath in Victorian London / John Potvin -- Space and the Victorian ecclesiastical interior / Jim Cheshire -- 'Designful beauty': sensuality, tea and gesso / Janice Helland -- Symbolism in a Scottish arts and crafts house / Annette Carruthers -- Craft as union, craft as demarcation: the decoration at Belfast Cathedral / Joseph McBrinn -- Scottish everyday art, or how tradition shaped modernism / Elizabeth Cumming -- 'The figure in the carpet': Saarinen House and the crafting of space / Bridget Elliott -- The crafted interior: Elsie de Wolfe and the construction of gendered identity / Penny Sparke -- East by north-west: the vessel and twentieth-century studio ceramics / Tanya Harrod -- Josef Frank's 'Aralia': from houseplant to 'Djungel' / Tag Gronberg -- The interior of modernism: Catherine Bauer and the American housing movement / Cynthia Imogen Hammond -- The metaphysics of craft: Anita Aaron's crafts for architecture / Sandra Alfoldy -- New craft in old spaces: artist-designed rooms at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel / Amy Gogarty.
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Summary:

An exploration of the relationship of craft to architectural spaces. The book unravels the complex ways in which craft controls, manipulates, organises and defines space, to highlight how the relationship between craft and space can be understood as a form of communication between related parts that combine to form a unified whole.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780754657064 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
075465706X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Decorative arts.
Space (Architecture)
Interior decoration.
Interior Design and Furnishings
Arts décoratifs.
Espace (Architecture)
Décoration intérieure.
Design
Innenarchitektur
Wohnen
Interior decoration History.
Handicraft History.
Inredning.
1855-2005

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Alfoldy, Sandra, 1969-2019.
Helland, Janice.
Alfoldy, Sandra, 1969-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259098
Call No.: BIB 189953
Status: Available