Interiors : the home since 1700

Description

The development of the domestic interior is a history of consumption and taste. In this book, this story is set for the first time against the cultural and industrial changes taking place in the western world since the seventeenth century. Unlike almost all previous histories, this book does not deal exclusively with the grand houses of the aristocracy: cultural historian Parissien concentrates rather on the homes of the merchants and middle classes, who have been the first to take advantage of new technologies to furnish and decorate their homes. Fully illustrated with contemporary plates from catalogues and books, as well as paintings and photography, this book traces an absorbing and often surprising story all over Western Europe and North America. Parissien's narrative explains not simply what happened, but why. For all students of and enthusiasts for domestic interior and period settings.


Includes bibliographical references (page 302) and index.


Introduction : Interiors and the designer -- The wind of change : the European home in 1700 -- Anglo-Saxon rectitude : the proportional interior in Britain and America -- Expanding horizons : Rococo and Chinoiserie -- Principles and proportion : the Neoclassical interior -- The democratic interior : celebrating the middle-class home in the early nineteenth century -- Backwards and forwards : 1851 and all that -- The colour of industry : western interiors and the possibilities of technology -- Mammon confronted : Arts and Crafts and design reform -- Clean and bright : the age of electricity -- Form and function : modernism and Art Deco -- Safety first : celebrating the familiar -- Embracing the machine : the postwar interior -- One foot in the past : back to the future -- Technology harnessed? : new century, new directions.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B165: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDE/27.

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