The modern interior / Penny Sparke.

Main entry:

Sparke, Penny, author.

Title & Author:

The modern interior / Penny Sparke.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, [2008]
©2008

Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
Part 1. Inside out : The private interior -- The new interior -- The mass-consumed interior -- The fashionable interior -- The decorative interior -- Part 2. Outside in : The public interior -- The rational interior -- The mass-produced interior -- The abstract interior -- The designed interior -- Conclusion.

Summary:

Design historian and critic Penny Sparke provides a persuasive account of the forces, conflicts and debates that have underpinned the emergence of 'the modern interior'. She unravels the shift from Victorian to modern style, and demonstrates that the easy transition so frequently portrayed is little more than a mythology.

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ISBN:

9781861893727 (pbk.)
1861893728 (pbk.)

Subject:

Interior decoration History.
Interior architecture History.
Décoration intérieure Histoire.
Architecture intérieure Histoire.
Interior architecture.
Interior decoration.
Inredning historia 1800-talet 1900-talet.
Heminredning historia 1800-talet 1900-talet.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258412
Call No.: BIB 189182
Status: Available

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