The senses in interior design : sensorial expressions and experiences / edited by John Potvin, Marie-Ève Marchand and Benoit Beaulieu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Potvin, John, editor.

Marchand, Marie-Ève, editor.

Beaulieu, Benoit, editor.

Series:

Studies in design and material culture.

Studies in design and material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior decoration--History.

Interior decoration.

Senses and sensation in interior decoration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

John Potvin is a Professor of Art History at Concordia University.

Marie-Ève Marchand is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia University.

Benoit Beaulieu is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Concordia University.

Summary:

Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors from the late sixteenth century to today. It provides new insight on the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and decoration.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses

Part I Sensory politics

Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior

Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and their condemnation

Reassessing Pierre Legrain's 'Black Deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior

'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35

Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior, 1933-45

Part II Aesthetic entanglements

Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room

Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930

The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany

Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design

Part III Sensual economies

Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition

The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c.1945-75

Interiorizing the senses

Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book

Aesop's sensory experience

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526181428

1526181428

9781526167811

1526167816

9781526167835

1526167832

OCLC:

1396551989