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How does one turn a house containing artworks into a museum? How
does one narrate the story of the lives that were lived there? How
authentic can a retrospective reconstruction of interior spaces and
their contents be?
The contributors of "The Modern Period Room," drawn from a broad
range of disciplines, consider the interiors of the modern era and
their more recent reconstruction from a variety of different
viewpoints. Beneath the conceptual and physical strategy of the
representational technique of the modern period room lie numerous
conflicting intentions.
This collection of essays by design historians, architects and
curators engages with these tensions. The authors explore themes
and examples by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Truus
Schroeder and Gerrit Rietveld, Erno Goldfinger and others in a bid
to reveal the specific cultural encoding of presented interior
spaces.
The book's critical engagement with the issues and conventions
which surround the modern period room will allow historians and
theorists of architecture, design and social history to investigate
the contexts in which this representational device has been used.
The various models of period room enables the reader to understand
just how dynamic, contributory and ultimately interventionist the
presentation of the period room is in the process of architectural
and design history making.
"Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior "examines the
interior as a "stage" upon which modern life and lifestyles are
consciously fashioned and "performed," and from which modern
identities are projected by and through design. Scholars from
Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior
environments--domestic interiors, sets for stage and film,
exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafes and retail
spaces--to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle
and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably dressed
body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and
expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which
interiors can give shape to and dramatize modern life.
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.
"Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior "examines the
interior as a "stage" upon which modern life and lifestyles are
consciously fashioned and "performed," and from which modern
identities are projected by and through design. Scholars from
Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior
environments--domestic interiors, sets for stage and film,
exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafes and retail
spaces--to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle
and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably dressed
body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and
expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which
interiors can give shape to and dramatize modern life.
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