Potvin / Unknown / Marchand The senses in interior design

Sensorial expressions and experiences
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6783-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Design and Material Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Potvin, John

Marchand, Marie-Ève

Beaulieu, Benoit

Marchand, Marie-Eve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Möbel (Kunst, Design)
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses – Marie-Ève Marchand
Part I: Sensory politics
1 Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior – Erin J. Campbell
2 Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou’s sensorial installations and its condemnation – Benoit Beaulieu
3 Re-assessing Pierre Legrain’s ‘Black Deco’: sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior – John Potvin
4 ‘Brother and I in bed’: queer photography at home in New York, 1925–35 – Alice T. Friedman
5 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior 1933–45 – Serena Newmark
Part II: Aesthetic entanglements
6 Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room – Louisa Iarocci
7 Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890–1930 – Michael Windover and James Deaville
8 The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany – Änne Söll
9 Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design – Grace Lees-Maffei
Part III: Sensual economies
10 Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition – Claire I. R. O’Mahony
11 The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c. 1945–75 – Fiona Fisher
12 Interiorising the senses – David Howes
13 Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran’s The House Book – Ben Highmore
14 Aesop’s sensory experience – D. J. Huppatz
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Potvin John:
John Potvin is Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University, CanadaJohn 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