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Shaping the American Interior - Structures, Contexts and Practices (Paperback)
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Shaping the American Interior - Structures, Contexts and Practices (Paperback)
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Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior
maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the
field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870
until 1960. Its interdisciplinary approach encompasses a broad
range of people, contexts, and practices, revealing the design of
the interior as a collaborative modern enterprise comprising art,
design, manufacture, commerce, and identity construction. Rooted in
the expansion of mass production and consumption in the last years
of the nineteenth century, new and diverse structures came to
define the field and provide formal and informal contexts for
design work. Intertwined with, but distinct from, architecture and
merchandising, interiors encompassed a diffuse range of
individuals, institutions, and organizations engaged in the
definition of identity, the development of expertise, and the
promotion of consumption. This volume investigates the fluid
pre-history of the American profession of interior design, charting
attempts to commoditize taste, shape modern conceptions of gender
and professionalism, define expertise and authority through
principles and standards, marry art with industry and commerce, and
shape mass culture in the United States.
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