TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sparke,Penny
TI  - The modern interior
SN  - 9781861893727 (pbk.)
AV  - NK1980 .S73 2008
U1  - 747.09 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion
KW  - Interior decoration
KW  - History
KW  - Interior architecture
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -