The Modern Interior

new set of design values that were more at home in the art gallery than the home. A similar crisis occurred on British soil in t ...

which were characterized by their ‘massive initial impact and small sustaining power’.^25 Seen as a highly transient area of vis ...

through the last years of the twentieth century, and into the early years of the twenty-first century, in response to many of th ...

plummeted to her death to the sound of canned laughter. ‘It’s not enough now to have the latest clothes’, explained the tortured ...

furniture items fabricated in modern materials was sufficient to denote the presence of ‘art’ or ‘value’ in that interior. Howev ...

Conclusion Wouldn’t you rather be inside? Southside Shopping Arcade, Wandsworth, London, 2005 204 While the forces of industrial ...

A shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, 2005. 204_212_Modern_Conclusion:Layout 1 30/5/08 18:32 Page 205 ...

intrusion of the media into our private spaces has reached new and unprecedented levels. As we have seen, Modernism’s legacy con ...

207 sphere. The American comedy programme I Love Lucyis just one example among many of a 1950 s American comedy set within a str ...

modern interior. They are portrayed as having unlimited imaginations and the capacity to change the appearance of the interior w ...

The interior of the Royalton Hotel in New York, designed by Philippe Starck, 1988. 204_212_Modern_Conclusion:Layout 1 30/5/08 18 ...

210 nonetheless – fulfil the same market need as couture clothing and hand- crafted objects. Alongside the erosion of ‘place’, a ...

‘Venice’ in the interior of the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006. 204_212_Modern_Conclusion:Layout 1 30/5/08 18:32 Page 2 ...

212 gondolas of Italy’s Venice have been recreated in an inside space with a blue sky/ceiling overhead. It provides an opportuni ...

213 Introduction 1 In his book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (London and New York, 2007 ), ...

questioned (see A. Vickery, ‘Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women’s Histor ...

13 R. Dutton, The Victorian Home: Some Aspects of Nineteenth-century Taste and Manners (London, 1954 ), p. 84. 14 See Juliet Kin ...

33 Ibid., p. 187. 34 Ibid. 35 Ibid., p. 188. 36 Kinchin, ‘Interiors’, p. 25. Chapter Two: The New Interior 1 Walter Benjamin, Th ...

11 See G. Crossick and S. Jaumain, eds, Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850 – 1939 (Aldershot, 1999 ) ...

38 Ibid., p. 67. 39 K. Wilson, ‘Style and Lifestyle in the Machine Age – the Modernist Period Rooms of “The Architect and the In ...