Reassembling the social interior : historical spaces from contemporary viewpoints / edited by Helen McCormack, Jennifer Gray, Anne Nellis Richter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormack, Helen.

Contributor:

McCormack, Helen, 1962-

Gray, Jennifer.

Nellis-Richter, Anne, 1970-

Series:

Studies in Design and Material Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior architecture--History.

Interior architecture.

Interior decoration--History.

Interior decoration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book is an interdisciplinary intervention into the history of interiors and collections, museology, archaeology, architectural history, art, and design history, and demonstrates a range of innovative methods and approaches, useful to historians, curators, and custodians of historical sites, spaces and objects.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction / Jennifer Gray, Anne Nellis Richter, Helen McCormack

I Reflecting and remaking

1 Social, material, action / Jennifer Gray

2 Expanded Interiors / Catrin Huber

3 Interior worlds on-screen / Madeleine Pelling

4 Reflecting on tales from a glass room / Edward Hollis, AnneMarie Bannister

5 The Front Room / Michael McMillan

II Reconstructing and reimagining

6 Fabulation and Dennis Severs' House / Freya Gowrley

7 Selling art in the domestic interior / Morna O'Neill

8 'The whole is now passed, the House down' / Anne Nellis Richter

9 The house of nature / Camilla Pietrabissa

10 Social spaces of knowledge / Helen McCormack

11 Maternal memories and spaces / Priscilla Sonnier

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526176929

OCLC:

1521234473