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

    Contributor(s): Sparke, PennyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009Description: vii, 311 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781847882875 (pbk.); 1847882870 (pbk.); 9781847882882 (cloth); 1847882889 (cloth)Subject(s): Interior architecture -- Social aspects | Interior decoration -- Social aspects | Space (Architecture) -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 729 | 747.09034 LOC classification: NA2850 | .D47 2009
    Contents:
    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.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

    '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.

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