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    The modern interior / Penny Sparke.

    By: Sparke, PennyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Reaktion, c2008Description: 240 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 9781861893727 (pbk.); 1861893728 (pbk.)Subject(s): Interior decoration -- History | Interior architecture -- HistoryDDC classification: 747.09 LOC classification: NK1980 | .S73 2008
    Contents:
    Part 1. Inside out : The private interior -- The new interior -- The mass-consumed interior -- The fashionable interior -- The decorative interior -- Part 2. Outside in : The public interior -- The rational interior -- The mass-produced interior -- The abstract interior -- The designed interior -- Conclusion.
    Summary: Design historian and critic Penny Sparke provides a persuasive account of the forces, conflicts and debates that have underpinned the emergence of 'the modern interior'. She unravels the shift from Victorian to modern style, and demonstrates that the easy transition so frequently portrayed is little more than a mythology.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-233) and index.

    Part 1. Inside out : The private interior -- The new interior -- The mass-consumed interior -- The fashionable interior -- The decorative interior -- Part 2. Outside in : The public interior -- The rational interior -- The mass-produced interior -- The abstract interior -- The designed interior -- Conclusion.

    Design historian and critic Penny Sparke provides a persuasive account of the forces, conflicts and debates that have underpinned the emergence of 'the modern interior'. She unravels the shift from Victorian to modern style, and demonstrates that the easy transition so frequently portrayed is little more than a mythology.

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