The Modern Interior

of the lace of the bedcover and of the fur rug placed at the foot of the bed. In 1925 , as part of the Paris Exposition Internat ...

dedicated to gastronomy and the Orgues, a location for spectacles and dancing. The studio’s nautical interest also extended to t ...

1920 s Art Deco dining room, designed by the Atelier Martine, in the French liner Île de France, 1927, illustrated in Paul Frank ...

Gordon) used live catwalk shows, the theatrical stage had been the only place where couturiers could display their wares on live ...

pages of her widely read advice book, The House in Good Taste, on the first page of which she included an elegant portrait of he ...

boudoirs for her female clients where personal identity, rather than social status, was at stake. The suite of rooms she created ...

custom of the middle classes was to move house on an annual basis, thereby accelerating the need to continually redecorate and r ...

While the haute couture profession offered much that was useful and relevant to the new interior decorating profession of the tw ...

tions to that programme of reform in the domestic interior.^23 In 1897 novelist Edith Wharton and architect and decorator Ogden ...

fashion show became a widespread phenomenon, actresses wearing cou- ture dresses on stage had performed a similar function and d ...

1913 , orchestrating fashion shows for eager customers. A handful of cou- turiers also established their own individual outlets ...

and modernity. It also highlighted the breakdown of the boundaries between the private and the public spheres. That both dress a ...

5 The Decorative Interior It is essential to realise that our decoration is as much a characteristic product of our civilisation ...

the nineteenth century, therefore, all the components of modern interior decoration were in place and it was understood that the ...

universalizing and rationalizing aspects of the movement, focusing primarily on its architectural achievements. A second traject ...

gentleman’s club. Also, as we have seen, the early work of Eileen Gray, who became best known for the Modernist interiors she cr ...

characteristic of the interior. The establishment of a modern architec - tural movement was inevitably followed by a search for ...

both grew from it and was integral to it. Wagner’s famous interior for Vienna’s Post Office Savings Bank, one of the most ration ...

wall cupboards, fittings, carpet and upholstery’ of the lady’s dressing room, for example, were ‘restricted to black, white and ...

A dining-room in a Small Town House in golden yellow, blue, violet and dull green, designed by the Aschermann Studio and illustr ...