Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior examines the interior as a "stage" upon which modern life and lifestyles are consciously fashioned and "performed", and from which modern identities are projected by and through design. Scholars from Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior environments—domestic interiors, sets for stage and film, exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafes and retail spaces—to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably dressed body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which interiors can give shape to and dramatize modern life.
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An international assessment of how the last 150 years of interior design have been influenced by the clothes people wear and the desire to create drama and social rituals.
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1 From historic dress to modern interiors: the design theory of Jakob von Falke |
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2 Frederic Leighton's `Narcissus' Hall: sensation and interior description in nineteenth-century London |
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3 Wearing and inhabiting the past: promoting the Colonial Revival in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America |
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4 The Viennese coffeehouse: a legend in performance |
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5 `At home' at the St James's: dress, decor and the problem of fashion in Edwardian theatre |
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6 Designing Lucile Ltd: couture and the modern interior 1900-1920s |
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7 `Paris, Hollywood': viewing Parisian modernity through the lens of the Seeberger brothers, 1909-1939 |
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8 Fashioning thrift: finding the modern in everyday environments |
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9 The modern home, Western fashion and feminine identities in mid-twentieth-century Turkey |
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10 Breakfast at Tiffany's: performing identity in public and private |
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11 Front and back of house: staging queer domesticity in New Canaan |
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12 Dressing the part(y): 1950s domestic advice books and the studied performance of informal domesticity in the UK and the US |
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Introduction: 1970-Present |
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13 In-habiting site: contemporary art practices within the historic(al) interior |
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14 `Lobby living': the performance of lifestyle |
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15 `Stay with Armani': Giorgio Armani and the pursuit of continuity, stability and legacy |
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16 Designing for the screen: the creation of an everyday illusion |
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17 The spectacular form of interior architecture under the new conditions of urban space |
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| Contributors |
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| Illustrations |
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| Select Bibliography |
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Fiona Fisher and Patricia Lara-Betancourt are Postdoctoral Researchers in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, London.
Trevor Keeble is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University.
Brenda Martin is the Curator of the Dorich House Museum at Kingston University.
