The Modern Interior
Distributed for Reaktion Books
The shift from Victorian to modern style, The Modern Interior reveals, was not as simple and smooth as it is often perceived and the book probes the complicated history behind that transition. Sparke examines the work of such designers as Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Mies van der Rohe, and draws upon design examples from the United States and Europe to reveal that, unlike the designed exteriors of buildings and institutions, the idea of the “interior” has been a largely abstract conception promoted through exhibitions, retail stores, and mass media.
A comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the design environments we live and play in, The Modern Interior will be essential reading for all scholars and interested observers of architecture and modern design culture.
"The visual reticence of this little book . . . undersells the expansiveness, diversity and materiality of its subject . . . The Modern Interior presents a compelling argument to consider interiors outside the home, just as it charts the complex interplay between public and private in all interiors, domestic and otherwiseise. This persuasive book is a well-crafted and engaging read ."--Times Higher Education
"Iusing examples of design from around the world, including the US, Scandinavia, UK, France, Germany and Italy, The Modern Interior offers some real insight into why the interior environments we inhabit look the way they do."--Designer Magazine
Introduction
Part 1: Inside Out
1 The Private Interior
2 The New Interior
3 The Mass-consumed Interior
4 The Fashionable Interior
5 The Decorative Interior
Part 2: Outside In
6 The Public Interior
7 The Rational Interior
8 The Mass-produced Interior
9 The Abstract Interior
10 The Designed Interior
Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Architecture: History of Architecture
Art: Art--General Studies
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