Through the impact of shops like Habitat and IKEA, and of the
countless glossy magazines, books and catalogues that focus on the
concept of 'interior design', we have all become familiar with the
idea of our homes and public interiors containing items of modern
furniture and decor. Yet design historian and critic Penny Sparke
shows that, unlike designed buildings and artefacts, the fixed idea
of the 'modern interior' has only ever been an abstract and
idealized concept, promoted through exhibitions, retail contexts
and the mass media, and that it rarely exists in an absolute form.
"The Modern Interior" provides a persuasive account of the forces,
conflicts and debates that have underpinned the emergence of
something we now effortlessly refer to as the 'modern interior'.
Offering fascinating and eloquent insights into the work of
international designers including C.R. Mackintosh, Adolf Loos,
Josef Frank, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Lilly Reich, Mies
van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Philippe Starck, and Charles and Ray
Eames, Sparke focuses on the realities as well as concepts of the
modern interior, whether in the hands of professional decorators
and designers, or in those of its amateur inhabitants. By doing so,
she deftly unravels the shift from Victorian to modern style, and
demonstrates that the easy transition to the modern interior so
frequently portrayed is little more than a mythology. "The Modern
Interior" is essential reading for all students of modern design,
architecture and culture, as well as anyone interested in why the
interior spaces we inhabit look the way they do.
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