Modern Period Room

Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin, Trevor Keeble

• Contributors Biographies List of Figures Preface Introduction 1. The Modern Period Room – A Contradiction in Terms? 2. Interiors Without Walls: Choice in Context at MoDA 3. Stopping the Clock: The Preservation and Presentation of Linley Sambourne House, 18 Stafford Terrace 4. The Double Life: The Cultural Construction of the Exhibited Interior in Modern Japan 5. The Restoration of Modern Life: Interwar Houses on Show in the Netherlands 6. 'A Man's House is his Art': The Walker Art Center's Idea House Project and the Marketing of Domestic Design 1941-1947 7. Domesticity on Display: Modelling the Modern Home in Post-War Belgium (1945-1950) 8. Kettles Yard: Museum of Way of Life? 9. Two Viennese Refugees: Lucie Rie and her Apartment 10. The Preservation and Presentation of 2 Willow Road for the National Trust 11. Photographs of a Legacy: Dora Gordine and Dorich House Index Bibliography

'This book will be of particular interest to students of interior decorating and to architects who wish to study the interaction of furniture with the design of their buildings. However, it is easily readable, and can be recommended to persons who contemplate furnishing or refurnishing their homes.' – Architecture Science Review