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Interior design and identity / edited by Susie McKellar and Penny Sparke.

Contributor(s): McKellar, Susie | Sparke, Penny.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in design.Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2004Description: xiii, 218 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0719067294.Subject(s): Interior decoration -- HistoryDDC classification: 747
Contents:
Introduction / Penny Sparke -- Women's creativity and display in the eighteenth-century British domestic interior / Katherine Sharp -- Comfort and gentility: furnishings by Gillows, Lancaster, 1840-55 / Amanda Girling-Budd -- A semblance of home: mental asylum interiors, 1880-1914 / Mary Guyatt -- The domestic interior and the construction of self: the New York homes of Elsie de Wolfe / Penny Sparke -- Chintz, swags and bows: the myth of English country-house style, 1930-90 / Louise Ward -- The role of the interior in constructing notions of class and status: a case study of Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, 1905-39 / Quintin Colville -- Feminine spaces, modern experiences: the design and display strategies of British hairdressing salons in the 1920s and 1930s / Emma Gieben-Gamal -- Pragmatism and pluralism: the interior decoration of the Queen Mary / Fiona Walmsley -- 'Constructing contemporary': common-sense approaches to 'going modern' in the 1950s / Scott Oram -- After modernism: the contemporary office environment / Jeremy Myerson.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 747 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00113811
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 747 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00050629
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Bibliography: (pages 209-210) and index.

Introduction / Penny Sparke -- Women's creativity and display in the eighteenth-century British domestic interior / Katherine Sharp -- Comfort and gentility: furnishings by Gillows, Lancaster, 1840-55 / Amanda Girling-Budd -- A semblance of home: mental asylum interiors, 1880-1914 / Mary Guyatt -- The domestic interior and the construction of self: the New York homes of Elsie de Wolfe / Penny Sparke -- Chintz, swags and bows: the myth of English country-house style, 1930-90 / Louise Ward -- The role of the interior in constructing notions of class and status: a case study of Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, 1905-39 / Quintin Colville -- Feminine spaces, modern experiences: the design and display strategies of British hairdressing salons in the 1920s and 1930s / Emma Gieben-Gamal -- Pragmatism and pluralism: the interior decoration of the Queen Mary / Fiona Walmsley -- 'Constructing contemporary': common-sense approaches to 'going modern' in the 1950s / Scott Oram -- After modernism: the contemporary office environment / Jeremy Myerson.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Women's creativity and display in the eighteenth-century British interior
  • Comfort and gentility: Furnishings by Gillows, Lancaster, 1840-1855
  • A semblance of home: Mental asylum interiors, 1880-1914
  • The domestic interior and the construction of self: The New York homes of Elsie de Wolfe
  • Chintz, swags and bows: The myth of English country house style, 1930-1990
  • The role of the interior in constructing notions of class and status: A case-study of Brittania Royal Naval College Dartmouth, 1905-1939
  • Feminine spaces, modern experiences: The design and display strategies of British hairdressing salons in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Pragmatism and pluralism: The interior decoration of the 'Queen Mary'
  • 'Constructing contemporary': Common-sense approaches to 'going modern' in the 1950s
  • After modernism: The contemporary office environment
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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

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