The Modern Interior

chaotic proliferation of mass-produced goods for the home, the problem of ‘taste’ created by the democratization of consumption, ...

dining table, for example, featured softly curved backs which flowed into their gently curving legs. Even the flowing forms of h ...

salon in Berlin for François Habry fitting it out with a row of mirrors from which electric lights, suspended from strips of met ...

daughter’s bedroom, concentric circles were inlaid into the wooden head and foot of the bed. They were also applied to the back ...

one of the walls, a furnishing strategy widely used by many members of this generation of architect-decorators and which later b ...

When the Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh married Margaret Macdonald in Glasgow in 1900 he decorated the interior of ...

the art of Japan was all-important, especially in helping architects to justify their interventions in the interior. In the ‘for ...

Mackintosh’s ease in moving between the domestic and the public spheres was manifested most clearly in his designs for Miss Cath ...

interior. The bright white spaces, dark oak chairs and the variety of materials employed – from beaten tin to stained glass to p ...

conceived as totally unified and which, more than most, aspired to the status of a luxurious work of art. Hoffmann achieved that ...

original artworks by Gustav Klimt, that it was almost impossible to dis- tinguish between the container and the contained. Hoffm ...

embraced the equally fashionable Moorish style as an alternative. Fearful that they would alienate their more cautious visitors ...

and museums. Van de Velde designed both the private office and the front of house for Meier-Graefe’s La Maison Moderne in Brusse ...

modernity. As in his menswear shop, Loos used his interior fittings to great effect. In the café a circular counter was added to ...

were few traces of Jugendstil left however, as it had been overtaken by a more simplified, machine-inspired aesthetic which was ...

furniture as an enhancement to the architectural frame, and it proposed the possibility of interiors becoming works of art. In a ...

3 The Mass-consumed Interior The more the manufacturer or dealer arranges model rooms or representa- tive exhibits, or practices ...

goods) in this context. Gradually, as the power of the marketplace expanded the means came to dominate the end and the idealized ...

that took place within those retail spaces – from department stores to shopping malls – were ones of continually enhanced ‘immer ...

A couture dress by Paul Poiret in an interior with fabric also designed by the couturier, illustrated in La Revue de La Femme,Ma ...