Title & Author:

Designing the modern interior : from the Victorians to today / edited by Penny Sparke [and others].

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.

Description:

vii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index.
Part 1. The late nineteenth-century interior (1870-1900). Introduction / Emma Ferry ; 'Plate glass and progress' : Victorian modernity at home / Trevor Keeble ; Privacy and supervision in the modernised public house, 1872-1902 / Fiona Fisher ; The German interior at the end of the nineteenth century / Sabine Wieber -- Part 2. The early twentieth-century interior (1900-1940). Introduction / Penny Sparke ; Taking amusement seriously : modern design in the twenties / Christopher Reed ; 'The scene in which the daily drama of personal life takes place' : toward the modern interior in early 1930s Britain / Elizabeth Darling ; The modern interior as a geography of images, spaces and subjects : Mies van der Rohe's and Lilly Reich's Villa Tugendhat, 1928-1931 / Irene Nierhaus ; 'Leaving traces' : anonymity in the modernist house / Hilde Heynen ; The geography of the diagram : the Rose Seidler house / Charles Rice -- Part 3. The mid twentieth-century interior (1940-1970). Introduction / Penny Sparke ; Hans Scharoun and the interior / Peter Blundell Jones ; New environments for modern living : 'at home' with the Eameses / Pat Kirkham ; Italy's new domestic landscape, 1945-1972 / Penny Sparke ; Ship shapes : ocean liners, modern architecture and the resort hotels of Miami Beach / Alice T. Friedman ; Nationalism and design at the end of empire : interior design and the ocean liner / Anne Massey -- Part 4. The late twentieth-century interior (1970-present). Introduction / Trevor Keeble ; The dark side of the modern home : Ilya Kabakov and Gregor Schneider's ruins / David Crowley ; Locating the modern impulse within the Japanese love hotel / Sarah Chaplin ; The contemporary interior : trajectories of biography and style / Alison J. Clarke ; Living the sustainable life : a case study of the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) sustainable interior / Anne Chick.

Summary:

'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.

ISBN:

9781847882875 (pbk.)
1847882870 (pbk.)
9781847882882 (cloth)
1847882889 (cloth)

Subject:

Interior architecture Social aspects.
Interior decoration Social aspects.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Architecture intérieure Aspect social.
Décoration intérieure Aspect social.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social.
Innenarchitektur
Interieurkunst.
Ruimte (algemeen)
Interior decoration History 19th century
Interior decoration History 20th century
Interior decoration History 21st century

Added entries:

Sparke, Penny.
Massey, Anne
Keeble, Trevor
Martin, Brenda

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268640
Call No.: BIB 200483
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available