The Modern Interior

Various forms of the mass media were quick to represent the ideal - ized domestic interior and to use it as a mechanism for stim ...

upper middle-class woman, might be read by her daughters, her servants and friends, then swapped for another through the exchang ...

An interior of the Bon Marché department store, rue de Babylone, Paris, 1880. ...

spectacle to entice customers inside them and to stimulate desire and pleasure so that consuming, for the middle-class women who ...

and showed only modern designs at that time.^17 The president of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert W. de Forest, bec ...

for a lot of legwork. It doesn’t need wealth, but it does take thought, some ingenuity and resourcefulness, and more than a litt ...

over from the department store for the most part, offering, through their more nuanced and complex ‘inside’ spaces, an even more ...

Riemerschmid among them, and the famous Art Nouveau settings creat- ed by Eugène Gaillard, George de Feure and others which were ...

Macdonald’s Rose Boudoirwas widely admired at the same event. The 1925 Paris Exposition Internationales des Arts Décoratifs et I ...

possible anywhere in the exhibition, many of the displays reinforced the fact that Paris was the city in which consumption took ...

This is an exhibition, and therefore it is no criticism to say that most of these rooms lack reality. It is important that the p ...

was the taste of the day. The Cane Acres room set out to do just that. At one of its exhibitions, held in 1934 , instead of show ...

The second-floor drawing room of Hope Hampton’s residence at 1145 Park Avenue, New York, designed by Elsie de Wolfe Inc., c. 193 ...

commercial and ideological messages and product placements.^35 In the 1930 s the idea of Hollywood ‘celebrities’ homes’ acquired ...

4 The Fashionable Interior Who doesn’t know the woman who goes to a shop and selects wall papers as she would her gowns, because ...

psychological link between them. Both played a key role in identity formation, especially in the creation of (particularly femin ...

space.^8 Building, also, on Sigmund Freud’s emphasis on interiority as a starting point for psychoanalysis, and on his notion of ...

creations and a marker of his own artistic identity, which, in turn, became inseparable from his commercial brand. He decorated ...

comfortable and fashionable. The modern role of interior decoration as a constructor of identities was reinforced by Doucet, bot ...

was not interested in constructing a bridge between fashionable dress and the interior. On the contrary, he simply did not see a ...