The Modern Interior

‘inside’ focus than her architectural contemporaries and aimed her advice at ‘that large body of intelligent people who are seek ...

An interior Frank created in Vienna for the Weissenhof Siedlung of 1927 , which featured cushions and patterned curtains at the ...

article in International Studio magazine caricatured the difference between the German/Viennese developments and those of the Fr ...

references to the eighteenth century with exotic materials acquired from France’s imperial pursuits, sumptuous patterns, rich co ...

lights, its use of Macassar ebony, its dramatically draped curtains, the highly patterned wallpaper on its curved walls, designe ...

French magazine from the same period, La Decoration de la Maison, revealed, however, that although ‘Moderne’ wasa real choice – ...

Interior Decoration: An Introduction to its Principles, and International Survey of its Methods, Dorothy Todd and Raymond Mortim ...

styles available at that time.^35 Gradually the distinctions between those overtly decorative modern styles and the minimal, mac ...

White, working on the interiors of their buildings, while, for the very wealthy, European firms, such as Allard and Sons of Pari ...

equivalent. In that context women took control of the construction of their own modern identities even though they were still de ...

a woman in the mid 1930 s – she positioned a huge mirror with a rococo frame made of plaster over the fireplace.^45 Such strateg ...

the public arena to a significant degree – particularly spaces dedicated to modern commerce and leisure. Through its engagement ...

Part Two Outside In ...

The Passage de l’Opéra, Paris, c. 1880 – 1900. ...

The public face of the modern interior was formed in the second half of the nineteenth century in the new inside spaces of comme ...

employed by nineteenth-century engineers into their residential build- ings, the Modernists also brought commerce into the home. ...

Benjamin described them as ‘a city, a world in miniature’, emphasizing their strong relationship with the ‘outside’.^8 He also s ...

A print of an interior view of the Crystal Palace in London’s Hyde Park, 1851. ...

admired, a strategy on the part of the exhibition organizers which served to augment the visitors’ (unrequited) levels of desire ...

nineteenth century/early twentieth century department store has been the subject of numerous studies, the appearance of its inte ...