Interiors
Subtitle: the home since 1700
By: Steven Parissien
Publisher: Laurence King Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781856695381
Subjects: Middle class; Domestic Architecture; Interior decoration; Interior architecture; Dwellings; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Interiors and the designer; title: The wind of change : the European home in 1700; title: Anglo-Saxon rectitude : the proportional interior in Britain and America; title: Expanding horizons : Rococo and Chinoiserie; title: Principles and proportion : the Neoclassical interior; title: The democratic interior : celebrating the middle-class home in the early nineteenth century; title: Backwards and forwards : 1851 and all that; title: The colour of industry : western interiors and the possibilities of technology; title: Mammon confronted : Arts and Crafts and design reform; title: Clean and bright : the age of electricity; title: Form and function : modernism and Art Deco; title: Safety first : celebrating the familiar; title: Embracing the machine : the postwar interior; title: One foot in the past: back to the future; title: Technology harnessed? : new century, new directions.