Interior Design And Identity

by McKellar, Susie; Sparke, Penny

• ISBN13: 9780719067297
• ISBN10: 0719067294
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-26
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

This chronologically arranged set of case studies looks at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female "home makers" in search of creative outlets and married couples seeking to modernize their homes as well as the contributions of early professional (female) "interior decorators," and later, (male) "interior designers." It also considers the more anonymous role of commercial enterprises, such as hairdressing salons, cruise ships or modern offices. Issues relating to interiority, gender, and the relationship of the public sphere are also considered opening up a new level of design historical enquiry.

Author Biography

Susie McKellar is Researcher at the Royal College of Art.

Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History, and Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Music, at Kingston University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	x
General editor's foreword	xii
Acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction Penny Sparhe	1	(190)
1 Women's creativity and display in the eighteenth-century British domestic interior
Katherine Sharp	10	(17)
2 Comfort and gentility: furnishings by Gillows, Lancaster, 1840-55
Amanda Girling-Budd	27	(21)
3 A semblance of home: mental asylum interiors, 1880-1914
Mary Guyatt	48	(24)
4 The domestic interior and the construction of self: the New York homes of Elsie de Wolfe
Penny Sparke	72	(20)
5 Chintz, swags and bows: the myth of English country-house style, 1930-90
Louise Ward	92	(22)
6 The role of the interior in constructing notions of class and status: a case study of Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, 1905-39
Quintin Colville	114	(19)
7 Feminine spaces, modern experiences: the design and display strategies of British hairdressing salons in the 1920's and 1930's
Emma Gieben-Gamal	133	(22)
8 Pragmatism and pluralism: the interior decoration of the Queen Mary
Fiona Walmsley	155	(19)
9 'Constructing contemporary': common-sense approaches to 'going modern' in the 1950's
Scott Oram	174	(17)
10 After modernism: the contemporary office environment
Jeremy Myerson	191	(18)
Select bibliography	209	(2)
Index	211