The Modern Interior

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33 Ibid., p. 187.
34 Ibid.
35 Ibid., p. 188.
36 Kinchin, ‘Interiors’, p. 25.

Chapter Two: The New Interior

1 Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. H. Eiland and K. McLaughlin (Cambridge, ma
and London, 2004 ), p. 6.
2 For a detailed account of Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, see P. Greenhalgh, ed., Art Nouveau
1890 – 1914 (London, 2000 ).
3 See Benjamin, The Arcades Project, p. 6.
4 L. Tiersten, Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, caand London, 2001 ), p. 157.
5 Quoted in J. Heskett, Design in Germany 1870 – 1918 (London, 1986 ), p. 52.
6 A. Crawford, Charles Rennie Mackintosh(London, 1995 ), p. 66.
7 See A. Ellis, The Hill House ( 2004 ).
8 G. Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstatte 1903 – 1932 (Cologne, 1995 ), p. 18.
9 See Glasgow’s Hidden Treasure: Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Ingram Street Tearooms
(Glasgow, 2004 ).
10 Noted in the text to the display at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery.
11 Ellis, The Hill House.
12 Elaine Denby, Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion (London, 1998 ), p. 148.
13 Ibid.
14 See A. Wealleans, Designing Liners: A History of Interior Design Afloat (New York and
London, 2006 ).
15 J. Stewart, Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos’s Cultural Criticism(London and New York,
2000 ), p. 132. In the words of Janet Stewart, ‘the rich man preferred to spend as little time
at home as possible and began to hanker after his old belongings which had been sacrificed
in the name of art.’
16 Benjamin, The Arcades Project, p. 6.

Chapter Three: The Mass-consumed Interior

1 Mrs C. Frederick, Selling Mrs Consumer (New York, 1929 ), p. 220.
2 D. Slater, Consumer Culture and Modernity (Cambridge, 1987 ), p. 8.
3 B. Colomina, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge, ma
and London, 1998 ), p. 244
4 J. Moran, Reading the Everyday (London and New York, 2005 ), p. 131.
5 Ibid.
6 For an account of ‘supermodernity’ which links to the idea of ‘lifestyle’ see M. Auge, Non-
Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London, 1995 ).
7 La Revue de Femme, May 1927 , no. 6 , p. 42.
8 M. Beetham, A Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine,
1800 – 1914 (London and New York, 1996 ), p. 8.
9 Ibid., p. 21
10 D. Ryan, The Ideal Home Through the Twentieth Century: “Daily Mail” Ideal Home
216 Exhibition (London, 1997 ), p. 45.

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