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Designing the Modern Interior - From The Victorians To Today (Hardcover, New)
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Designing the Modern Interior - From The Victorians To Today (Hardcover, New)
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010. 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.
The modern interior has often been narrowly defined by the
minimalist work of elite, reforming architects. But a shared
modernising impulse, expressed in interior design, extends at least
as far back as the Victorians and reaches to our own time. And this
spirit of modernisation manifested itself in interiors, designed
both by professionals and by amateurs, which did not necessarily
look modern and often even aimed to imitate the past. Designing the
Modern Interior presents a new history of the interior from the
late 19th to the 21st century. Particular characteristics are
consistent across this period: a progressive attitude towards
technology; a hyper-consciousness of what it is to live in the
present and the future; an overt relationship with the mass media,
mass consumption and the marketplace; an emphasis on individualism,
interiority and the 'self'; the construction of identities
determined by gender, class, race, sexuality and nationhood; and
the experiences of urban and suburban life.
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