PART I: 1850-1900 -- 1. From Historic Dress to Modern Interiors: The Design Theory of Jakob von Falke, Eric Anderson -- 2. Sensation and Interior Description in Nineteenth-Century London, Mark Taylor -- 3. Wearing and Inhabiting the Past: Promoting the Colonial Revival in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America, Bridget A. May -- 4. The Viennese Coffeehouse: A Legend in Performance, Tag Gronberg -- PART II: 1900-1940 -- 5. 'At Home' at the St James's: Dress, Decor and the Problem of Fashion in Edwardian Theatre, Christopher Breward -- 6. Designing Lucile Ltd: Couture and the Modern Interior 1900-1920s, Samantha Erin Safer -- 7. 'Paris, Hollywood': Viewing Parisian Modernity through the Lens of the Seeberger Brothers, 1909-39, Andrew Stephenson -- 8. Fashioning Thrift: Finding the Modern in Everyday Environments, Mary Anne Beecher -- PART III: 1940-1970 -- 9. The Modern Home, Western Fashion and Feminine Identities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Turkey, Meltem O Gurel -- 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Performing Identity in Public and Private, Marilyn Cohen -- 11. Front and Back of House: Staging Queer Domesticity in New Canaan, Alice Friedman -- 12. Dressing the Part(y): 1950s Domestic Advice Books and the Studied Performance of Informal Domesticity in the UK and the US, Grace Lees-Maffei -- 13. In-habiting Site: Contemporary Art Practices Within the Historic Interior, Helen Potkin -- 14. Lobby Living: the Performance of Lifestyle, Nicky Ryan -- 15. 'Stay with Armani': Giorgio Armani and the Pursuit of Continuity, Stability and Legacy, John Potvin -- 16. Designing for the Screen: the Creation of an Everyday Illusion, Teresa Lawler -- 17. The Spectacular Form of Interior Architecture Under the New Conditions of Urban Space, Pierluigi Salvadeo.
Summary:
Performance, fashion and the modern interior" examines the interior as a 'stage' upon which modern life and lifestyles are consciously fashioned and 'performed', and from which modern identities are projected by and through design. Scholars from Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior environments - domestic interiors, sets for stage and film, exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafes and retail spaces - to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably dressed body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which interiors can give shape to and dramatise modern life.
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