Intimus : interior design theory reader / edited by Mark Taylor and Julieanna Preston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Mark, 1955-

Preston, Julieanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior decoration--Philosophy.

Interior decoration.

Interior architecture--Philosophy.

Interior architecture.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Academy, 2006.

Summary:

Walter Benjamin observed in his writings on the interior that, 'to live means to leave traceS'. This interior design theory reader focuses on just how such traces might manifest themselves. In order to explore interior design's theoretical links to multiple disciplines, the selected texts reflect a wide range of interests, extending beyond the traditional confines of design and architecture. Conceived as a matrix, which intersects social, political, psychological, philosophical, technological and gender discourse, the reader also reaches in to practice issues, such as materials, lighting, colour, furnishing and the body. The anthology presents a complex and sometimes conflicting terrain, while also creating a distinct body of knowledge particular to the interior. Locating theory on the interior through these multifarious sources encourages a future discourse specific to its subject, in an area of architecture that has often been marginalised, but that is now emerging in its own right.

Within the reader, individual excerpts are referenced to their place in the matrix and further clustered to reflect three domains of thought: order, atmosphere and body. This organising strategy resists both a chronological and themed structure to provoke associations and inferences between adjacent excerpts. In this way the book offers the possibility of examining the interior from multiple vantage points, whether from: a disciplinary focus, the spatial and physical attributes of interiors, a historical sequence or from a topical issue. Excerpts from Thomas Hope, Catherine E Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton and Charles L. Eastlake provide contemporary 19th-century accounts as the profession emerges, whereas Barbare Penner, Penny Sparke, Charles Rice, George Teyssot and Rebecca Houze offer re-interpretations of this period. The complexities of the 20th-century interior are revealed by Robyn Longhurst, Kevin Melchionne, George Wagner, John Macgregor Wise, Joel Sanders and many others. In contents and structure, the Intimus reader combines to create a rich resource - a touchstone for every level of interior design and architecture student, from undergraduate to graduate level and beyond.

Contents:

Proximities / Mark Taylor, Julieanna Preston 6

Matrix Key 14

The Partition of Space / Shirley Ardener 15

The Dialectics of Outside and Inside / Gaston Bachelard 22

The Sterility of Perfection + The Rule Breaker's Success / Billy Baldwin 26

Chromophobia / David Batchelor 31

Structures of Atmosphere / Jean Baudrillard 37

A Christian House / Catharine E Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe 43

Thick Edge: Architectural Boundaries and Spatial Flows / Iain Borden 49

A Wall of Books: The Gender of Natural Colors in Modern Architecture / William W Braham 56

A House for Josephine Baker / Karen Burns 64

Bodies and Mirrors / Ann C Colley 68

Movement and Myth: the Schroder House and Transformable Living / Catherine Croft 75

Spatial Stories / Michel de Certeau 78

Suitability, Simplicity and Proportion / Elsie de Wolfe 82

On the Means by which Repose is Attainable in Decoration / Christopher Dresser 86

Volatile Architectures / Jim Drobnick 89

Thing-Shapes / Winka Dubbeldam 96

The Dining Room / Charles L Eastlake 101

Men's Room / Lee Edelman 103

'Decorators May be Compared to Doctors' / Emma Ferry 110

Berggasse 19: Inside Freud's Office / Diana Fuss, Joel Sanders 117

Toward a Feminist Poetics: Infection in the Sentence / Sandra M Gilbert, Susan Gubar 121

Woman's Domestic Body / Beverly Gordon 126

Notes on Digital Nesting: a Poetics of Evolutionary Form / Mark Goulthorpe 133

Faith and Virtuality: A Brief History of Virtual Reality / Christian Groothuizen 138

Thinking of Gadamer's Floor / Jacques Herzog 144

Buildings and their Genotypes / Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson 148

Household Furniture and Interior Decoration / Thomas Hope 153

From Wiener Kunst im Hause to the Wiener Werkstatte / Rebecca Houze 156

Wherever I Lay My Girlfriend, That's My Home / Lynda Johnston, Gill Valentine 162

Interiors: Nineteenth-Century Essays on the 'Masculine' and the 'Feminine' Room / Juliet Kinchin 168

Tables, Chairs, and Other Machines for Thinking / Mark Kingwell 173

On the Loss of (Dark) Inside Space / Constanze Kreiser 180

Social, Spatial and Temporal Factors / Roderick J Lawrence 184

Wiener Wohnkultur: Interior Design in Vienna, 1910-1030 / Christopher Long 187

[Re]presenting Shopping Centres and Bodies: Questions of Pregnancy / Robyn Longhurst 194

The Tyranny of Taste / Jules Lubbock 200

Streamlining: The Aesthetics of Waste / Ellen Lupton, J Abbott Miller 204

The Architecture of Manners: Henry James, Edith Wharton and The Mount / Sarah Luria 213

'House Beautiful': Style and Consumption in the Home / Ruth Madigan, Moira Munro 221

Living in Glass Houses / Kevin Melchionne 228

Dust / Celeste Olalquiaga 233

Colour and Method / Amedee Ozenfant 238

Ordering the World: Perceptions of Architecture, Space and Time / Michael Parker Pearson, Colin Richards 245

A World of Unmentionable Suffering / Barbara Penner 253

The Apartment / Georges Perec 259

The Kitchen as a Place to Be / Norman Potter 264

Making Charleston (1916-17) / Christopher Reed 270

The Clubs of St. James's: Places of Public Patriarchy / Jane Rendell 277

Rethinking Histories of the Interior / Charles Rice 284

Designing the Dinner Party / Rachel Rich 292

'Hi Honey, I'm Home' / Joyce Henri Robinson 297

Curtain Wars / Joel Sanders 303

Productions of Incarceration: The Architecture of Daniel Paul Schreber / Felicity D Scott 309

Ornament and Order / Jacques Soulillou 314

'The Things which Surround One' / Penny Sparke 323

Decorating Culture / Xiaobing Tang 328

In Praise of Shadows / Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 335

Architecture and Interior: A Roam of One's Own / Mark Taylor 339

Boredom and Bedroom: The Suppression of the Habitual / Georges Teyssot 345

Visitors / Henry David Thoreau 348

The Chic Interior and the Feminine Modern / Lisa Tiersten 351

Inside Fear: Secret Places and Hidden Spaces in Dwellings / Anne Troutman 356

The Pleasure of Architecture / Bernard Tschumi 360

Domestic Doyennes: Purveyors of Atmospheres Spoken and Visual / John C Turpin 368

The Lair of the Bachelor / George Wagner 375

Ultrasuede / George Wagner 380

The Historical Tradition / Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr. 387

Home: Territory and Identity / J Macgregor Wise 391

The Material Value of Color: The Estate Agent's Tale / DJB Young 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0470015705

0470015713

OCLC:

63397636

Publisher Number:

9780470015704 (hbk.)

9780470015711 (pbk.)