The Modern Interior

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Published by Reaktion Books Ltd 33 Great Sutton Street London ec1v 0dx http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk First published 2008 Copyr ...

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001_005_Modern_Prelims:Layout 1 30/5/08 15:17 Page Introduction 1 The Private Interior Part 1: Inside Out 2 The New Interior 3 ...

Introduction An estate agent’s photograph of an interior space in Montevetro – a Richard Rogers-designed, riverside apartment bu ...

department store and the café – as well as in the modern hospital and church – as they were in the home. In addition, the visual ...

them. To that end they developed a technical and aesthetic programme, manifested in the years between the two world wars, known ...

the mass-produced goods that emerged from those factories could be con- sumed. Both were essential components, therefore, of ind ...

room at home. On the other hand the stark simplicity of Walter Gropius’s kitchen in his Dessau home of 1925 – 6 was a direct res ...

image, as an assemblage of material objects or as a space. In turn it can be represented through architectural plans, drawings, ...

or ‘interiority’, on the part of its inhabitants, was also part of that same historical moment. Following Benjamin’s logic to it ...

ideo logical assumption within western, capitalist society. Reinforced as it was by the visual, material and spatial differences ...

middle classes, shopping also became a leisure activity, as the image of women window-shopping reveals. They stand gazing throug ...

broadcast from 1996 to 2004 , was Changing Rooms, which worked on the assumption that everybody’s taste is equally valid as long ...

their hands design had the capacity to turn values, desires and aspira- tions into visual, material and spatial ideals and reali ...

1850 and 1939 were further played out in the years between 1940 and the present day. The conclusion offers a reflection on the e ...