Senses in Interior Design

John Potvin is a Professor of Art History at Concordia UniversityMarie-Ève Marchand is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia UniversityBenoit Beaulieu is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Concordia University

• Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses – Marie-Ève MarchandPart I: Sensory politics1 Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior – Erin J. Campbell2 Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou’s sensorial installations and its condemnation – Benoit Beaulieu3 Re-assessing Pierre Legrain’s ‘Black Deco’: sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior – John Potvin4 ‘Brother and I in bed’: queer photography at home in New York, 1925–35 – Alice T. Friedman5 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior 1933–45 – Serena NewmarkPart II: Aesthetic entanglements6 Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room – Louisa Iarocci7 Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890–1930 – Michael Windover and James Deaville8 The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany – Änne Söll9 Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design – Grace Lees-MaffeiPart III: Sensual economies10 Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition – Claire I. R. O’Mahony11 The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c. 1945–75 – Fiona Fisher12 Interiorising the senses – David Howes13 Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran’s The House Book – Ben Highmore14 Aesop’s sensory experience – D. J. HuppatzIndex