Performance, fashion and the modern interior : from the Victorians to today / edited by Fiona Fisher [and others].

"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...

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Other Authors: Fisher, Fiona
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2011.
Edition:English edition.
Subjects:
Interior decoration > History.
Clothing and dress > History.
Textile fabrics in interior decoration > History.
Interior decoration > English influences.
Interior decoration > European influences.
Fashion.
Performance.
Physical Description:vii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • PART I: 1850-1900
  • 1. From Historic Dress to Modern Interiors: The Design Theory of Jakob von Falke, Eric Anderson
  • 2. Sensation and Interior Description in Nineteenth-Century London, Mark Taylor
  • 3. Wearing and Inhabiting the Past: Promoting the Colonial Revival in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America, Bridget A. May
  • 4. The Viennese Coffeehouse: A Legend in Performance, Tag Gronberg
  • PART II: 1900-1940
  • 5. 'At Home' at the St James's: Dress, Decor and the Problem of Fashion in Edwardian Theatre, Christopher Breward
  • 6. Designing Lucile Ltd: Couture and the Modern Interior 1900-1920s, Samantha Erin Safer
  • 7. 'Paris, Hollywood': Viewing Parisian Modernity through the Lens of the Seeberger Brothers, 1909-39, Andrew Stephenson
  • 8. Fashioning Thrift: Finding the Modern in Everyday Environments, Mary Anne Beecher
  • PART III: 1940-1970
  • 9. The Modern Home, Western Fashion and Feminine Identities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Turkey, Meltem O Gurel
  • 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Performing Identity in Public and Private, Marilyn Cohen
  • 11. Front and Back of House: Staging Queer Domesticity in New Canaan, Alice Friedman
  • 12. Dressing the Part(y): 1950s Domestic Advice Books and the Studied Performance of Informal Domesticity in the UK and the US, Grace Lees-Maffei
  • 13. In-habiting Site: Contemporary Art Practices Within the Historic Interior, Helen Potkin
  • 14. Lobby Living: the Performance of Lifestyle, Nicky Ryan
  • 15. 'Stay with Armani': Giorgio Armani and the Pursuit of Continuity, Stability and Legacy, John Potvin
  • 16. Designing for the Screen: the Creation of an Everyday Illusion, Teresa Lawler
  • 17. The Spectacular Form of Interior Architecture Under the New Conditions of Urban Space, Pierluigi Salvadeo.