Designing the Modern Interior

Penny Sparke is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) at Kingston University and author of Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration and An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the Present. Anne Massey is Professor of Design History at Kingston University and author of Designing Liners: A History of Interior Design Afloat and Interior Design since 1900. Trevor Keeble is Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University. Brenda Martin is the Curator of the Dorich House Museum at Kingston University.

• General Introduction: Penny Sparke PART ONE: THE LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1870-1900)Introduction: Emma Ferry1.Plate Glass and Progress: Victorian Modernity at Home, Trevor Keeble, Kingston University2.Privacy and Supervision in the Modernised Public House Interior 1872-1902, Fiona Fisher, Kingston University 3.The German Interior at the End of the Nineteenth Century Sabine Wieber, Roehampton UniversityPART TWO: THE EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1900-1940)Introduction: Penny Sparke4.Taking Amusement Seriously: Modern Design in the Twenties, Christopher Reed, Lake Forest College, Chicago5.'The scene in which the daily drama of personal life takes place': Towards the Modern Interior in early 1930s Britain, Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University6.The Modern Interior as the Geography of Image, Space and Subject, Irene Nierhaus, Bremen University, Germany7.'Leaving Traces'. Anonymity in the Modernist House, Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven Universitat, Belgium8.The Geography of the Diagram: The Rose Seidler House, Charles Rice, University of New South Wales, SydneyPART THREE: THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1940-1970)Introduction: Penny Sparke9.Hans Scharoun and the Interior, Peter Blundell Jones, The Univrsity of Sheffield 10.New Environments for Modern Living: 'At Home' with the Eameses, Pat Kirkham, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York11.Italy's New Domestic Landscape, 1945-1972, Penny Sparke, Kingston University12.Ocean Liners, Resort Hotels and the Architecture of Leisure, Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, Massachusetts13.Nationalism and Design at the End of Empire, Anne Massey, Kingston UniversityPART FOUR: THE LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1970 - present) Introduction: Trevor Keeble14.The Dark Side of the Modern Home, David Crowley, Royal College of Art15.Locating the Modern Impulse within the Japanese Love Hotel, Sarah Chaplin, Kingston University 16.The Contemporary Interior: Trajectories of Biography and Style, Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 17.Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED): Encouraging Sustainable Living in the UK, Anne Chick, Kingston UniversityEndnotesBibliographyIndex

This volume is destined to become a model of disciplined interdisciplinary analysis. This exceptionally disciplined approach to a necessarily interdisciplinary convergence about modernity achieves model scholarship. Ample images situate and visually direct the discussion. Essential.