Designing the French interior : the modern home and mass media / Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lasc, Anca I., author.

Downey, Georgina, author.

Taylor, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior decoration--France--History--18th century.

Interior decoration.

Interior decoration--France--History--19th century.

Interior decoration--France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Designing the French interior' traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. To this end, a variety of media and representational techniques are discussed side by side, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films. Structured into three parts and including chapters by leading scholars addressing a wide range of subjects, this book is intended to broaden understanding of French interiors, from historical, theoretical and practice-based perspectives, and provides an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

Contents:

French Connections : The Modern Interior and Mass Media / Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor

Impolite Reading and Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France / Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor

Intimate Vibrations : Inventing the Dream Bedroom / Fae Brauer

Angels and Rebels : The Obsessions and Transgressions of the Modern Interior / Anca I. Lasc

Machines and Monsters : The Modern Decadent Interior as Spectacle in Huysmans's À Rebours / Emilie Sitzia

La Maison Suspendue : Imaginary Solutions for an Everyday Domestic Machine / Peter Olshavsky

The Interiorization of Identity : Portrait Busts and the Politics of Selfhood in Pre- and Early Revolutionary France / Ronit Milano

A Portable Keyhole into the Fictional Apartment Building : The Interiors of Félix Vallotton and Émile Zola / Karen Stock

The Fin-de-siècle Poster : A Healthy Modern Stimulus in the French Interior / Katherine Brion

Mode of a Modern Muse : Fashion and Interior in Édouard Vuillard's Paintings of Misia Natanson / Jess Berry

The Decadent Interior as Modern Lesbian Aesthetic / Elizabeth Melanson

Mallet-Stevens, Modern Design and French Cinema / Nieves Fernández Villalobos

Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée's Photo-Interviews : Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press / Elizabeth Emery

Hôtel Baronne Salomon de Rothschild 1872-1878 : The Imprint of a Legacy / Linda Stevenson and Susan Tate

"Un Bel Atelier Moderne" : The Montparnasse Artist at Home / Louise Campbell

Housing the New Dandy : Designing Lifestyle in Monsieur Magazine, 1920-1924 / John Potvin

"Fashions in Living" : The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 4, Route du Champs d'Entraînement, Paris / Peter McNeil

"Si ma cuisine m'était comptée" : Paris Match and the Salon des arts ménagers during the Fourth Republic / Guillaume De Syon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780857857835

0857857835

OCLC:

1201425866