Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources(Critical and Primary Sources)

Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of reference essential to anyone wishing to gain a critical understanding of interior design. Gathering historical and contemporary texts from a wide-ranging number of sources, the volumes provide a key resource in understanding and studying the past and future directions of interior design. The four volumes bring together over 100 essays and papers from Asia, Europe and North America, covering disciplinary origins in decoration and furnishing, through to recent enquiry into digital interactive spaces and virtual environments. The range of historical, theoretical and methodological approaches examines the social formation and spatial arrangements of interiors as they shift from the sensuous and emotive to the spatial politics of homogenised modernist terrain. Ordered thematically, the volumes cover Design Awareness, Sensory Expectation, Cinematic Engagement and Public Interaction. Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections on specific themes. Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources will prove a major scholarly resource for researchers involved in the study of the interior.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE: DESIGN AWARENESS Introduction, Mark Taylor Part One: Aesthetic and Scientific Advice Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details, Charles Eastlake, 1868 The Art of Decoration, Mary Eliza Haweis, 1881 Employment for Girls: House Decoration, Agnes Garrett, 1888 How to Decorate a House, Mrs Oscar Wilde, 1895 'Decorators may be Compared to Doctors', An analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's 'Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture' (1896), Emma Ferry, 2003 Edith Wharton, 'The Decoration of Houses', and Gender in Turn-of-the-Century-America, Vanessa Chase, 1996 The House Beautiful: A Reconstruction of Oscar Wilde's American Lecture, Kevin H. F. O'Brien, 1974 The House in Good Taste, Elsie de Wolfe, 1913 Efficient Housekeeping, Christine Frederick, 1915 The Art of the House, Rosamund Marriott Watson, 1897 Part Two: Modernity and Designed Interiors The New Interior Decoration: An Introduction to its Principles, and International Survey of its Methods, Dorothy Todd and Raymond Mortimer, 1929 The Personality of the House, Emily Post, 1930 Louis-Philippe or the Interior, Walter Benjamin, 1935 The Bachelor Pad as Cultural Icon Masculinity, Consumption and Interior Design in American Men's Magazines, 1930-65, Bill Osgerby, 2005 Playboy's Penthouse Apartment, Playboy, 1956 Public Interiors, Misha Black, 1960 Interior Design, Dianna Rowntree, 1964 Billy Baldwin Decorates, Billy Baldwin, 1972 Part Three: Political Intentions 'Out of my Kitchen!' Architecture, Gender and Domestic Efficiency, Irene Cieraad, 2002 Two Utopian feminists and their Campaigns for Kitchenless Houses, Dolores Hayden, 1978 Intrusion and Reconfiguration in Occupied Territories, Terry Meade, 2007 Curtain Wars: Architects, Decorators, and the 20th-Century Domestic Interior, Joel Sanders, 2002 'Closets, Clothes, Disclosure', Henry Urbach, 1996 Interiors, District Six, c 1950, Shamil Jeppe, 1998 Part Four: Theoretical Formulations Surface Effects: Borromini, Semper, Loos, Andrew Benjamin, 2006 Diagramming the Interior, Mark Taylor, 2010 The System of Objects, Jean Baudrillard, 1996 The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, 1958 Occupations of Interior Surface, Julieanna Preston, 2009 VOLUME TWO: SENSORY EXPECTATION Introduction, Mark Taylor Part One: Home Interiors: nineteenth-century essays on the 'masculine' and the 'feminine' room, Juliet Kinchin, 1996 Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London, Sharon Marcus, 1999 A/Partments, Mark Rakatansky, 1998 Inside Fear: Secret Places and Hidden Spaces in Dwellings, Anne Troutman, 1997 Part Two: Interiority Art Nouveau in France: Politics, Psychology, and Style, Debora L. Silverman, 1989 Boredom and Bedroom: The Suppression of the Habitual, Georges Teyssot, 1996 Psyche and Sympathy: Staging Interiority in the early Modern Home, Susan Sidlauskas, 1996 Part Three: Seduction and Sensation La Petit Maison, Jean-François de Bastide, 1879 The Genius of Architecture; or, the Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations, Nicolas le Camus de Mézières, 1780 The Velvet Touch: Fashion, Furniture, and the Fabric of the Interior, Freyja Hartzell, 2009 The Female Philosophe in the Closet: The Cabinet and the Senses in French Erotic Novels, 1740-1800, Diane Berrett Brown, 2009 'Ce Lieu de delices: Art and Imitation in the French Libertine Cabinet', Paul J. Young, 2008 Part Four: Culture and Identity Home Territories: Media, Identity and Mobility, David Morley, 2000 'Furnished in English Style: Anglicization of local elite domestic interiors in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), c1850-1910', Robin D Jones, 2004 A life of Longing behind the Bedroom Door: Adolescent Space and the Makings of Private Identity, Jo Croft, 2006 Culture and Comfort: Parlour Making and Middle-class Identity 1850-1930, Katherine Grier, 1997 The Domestic Interior and the Construction of Self: The New York Homes of Elsie de Wolfe, Penny Sparke, 2004 Woman's Domestic Body: The Conceptual Conflation of Women and Interiors in the Industrial Age, Beverly Gordon, 1996 Designing Women: Gender, Sexuality and the Interior Decorator, c. 1890-1940, Peter McNeil, 1994 'The Importance of Not Being Ernest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People', Paulette Singley, 1998 .A Queer Analysis of Eileen Gray's E 1027, Katarina Bonnevier, 2005 The Traditional Malay Architecture: between aesthetics and symbolism, Mohd Sabrizaa Abd Rashid and Sufian Che Amat, 2008 VOLUME THREE: CINEMATIC ENGAGEMENT Introduction, Mark Taylor Part One: Filmic Space The Office: 1950 to the Present, Christopher Budd, 2001 Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, Giuliana Bruno, 2002 Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City, Katherine Shonfield, 2000 'Anthropology at Home': Domestic Interiors in British Film and Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s, Rod Mengham, 2006 Pandora: Topographies of the Mask and Curiosity, Laura Mulvey, 1992 Close Encounter, Withdrawn Effects, Simone Brott, 2008 On Location: The Imagined Private Interior in Public Life, Gini Lee, 2009 Part Two: Literary Inscriptions The Interior as Aesthetic Refuge: Edmond de Goncourt's La maison d'un artiste, Diana Periton, 2004 Eros & Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, Karen Chase, 1984 Reading the House: A Literary Perspective, Kathy Mezei and Chiara Briganti, 2002 Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women Work and Home, Monica F Cohen, 1998 1Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel, Tim Dolin, 1997 1A Rebours, J K Huysmans, 1884 1Virginia Woolf: The Frames of Art and Life, C Ruth Miller, 1989 1Troubled Places: Domestic Space in Graphic Novels, Jeff Adams, 2006 1Plainwork (Writing), Linda Marie Walker, 2005 Part Three: Artistic Practice The Subversive Hearth: The Installation of the Domiciled Artist, Margaret Baguley, 2003 Lived Perspectives: The Art of the French Nineteenth Century Interior, Francesca Berry, 2006 1Maisons d'artistes: Sympathetic Frame and Wandering Aesthetic, Georgina Downey, 2010 Jen-Michel Frank: The Surrealist Interior, Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, 2007 .Domestic Disturbances: Challenging the Anti-domestic Modern, Christopher Reed, 2002 The Illusory Interior, Ghislaine Wood, 2007 Part Four: Photographic Representation Photography's Veil: Reading Gender and Loos' Interiors, Charles Rice, 2005 Master Bedrooms, Master Narratives: Home, Homosexuality and Post-War Art, Kenneth Silver, 1996 Eugène Atget and the Fin de Siècle Interior: Revelatory Excess, Katie Hartsough Brion, 2006 VOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC INTERACTION Introduction, Mark Taylor Part One: Spectatorship and the Public Realm The Mass Ornament, Siegfried Kracauer, 1995 Nationalism and Design at the End of Empire: Interior Design and the Ocean Liner, Anne Massey, 2009 "A New Era of Shopping": The Promotion of Women's Pleasure in London's West End, 1909-14, Erika D. Rappaport, 1995 The Ins and Outs of the Hall: A Parisian Example, Céline Rosselin, 1999 Ignored or Repressed: Reconstructing the Missing Interior in 'Learning from Las Vegas', Michael J Ostwald, 2010 Privacy and Supervision in the Modernised Public House 1872-1902, Fiona Fisher, 2009 Localizing the Universal Values of Christianity in Local Church Design of Indonesia: Towards Sustainability, Krismanto Kusbiantoro, 2010 Part Two: Exhibition and the Temporary Space A Distorted Mirror: The Exhibition of the Herbert Ward Collection of Africana, Mary Jo Arnoldi, 1992 Between Representation and the Mirror: Tactics for Interiorisation, Suzie Attiwill, 2008 Shrines, Curiosities, and the Rhetoric of Display, Stephen Bann, 1995 Cinematic Spectatorship Before the Apparatus: The Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Vanessa R Schwartz, 1995 Uncertain Sights: Owen Jones' Improvements for the Crystal Palace Interior, Karen Burns, 2006 Part Three: Scenographic Space The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London, Jane Rendell, 2002 Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography, Arnold Aronson, 2005 Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955, Lynn Spigel, 1992 Part Four: Game Worlds and Ludic Space Architecture, Space and Gameplay in World of Warcraft and Battle for Middle Earth 2, Georgia Leigh McGregor, 2006 Games as Inhabited Spaces, Bernadette Flynn, 2004 Signifying Play: The Sims and the Sociology of Interior Design, Charles Paulk, 2006 The Construction of Ludic Space, Ernest Adams, 2003 Part Five: Digital and Interactive Interiors Immaterial Culture: The Interior Environment Repositioned, Tara Roscoe, 2007 Architecture, Liquid, Gas, Ole Baumen, 2005 Terrain Vague: Interactive Space and the Housescape, Michael Weinstock, 2005 Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience and Critical Design, Anthony Dunne, 1999 General index for all four volumes

About the Author :
Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture at University of Newcastle, Australia. His research is widely published in journals and books and he is editor of Surface Consciousness and co-editor with Julieanna Preston of Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader.

Review :
There is a rich vein of contemporary material that is drawn upon to highlight attitudes towards the interior – such as Christine Frederick's "The Labour Saving Kitchen" from Efficient Housekeeping: Scientific Management in the Home from 1915 – that is interspersed without comment amongst scholarly works. This juxtaposition works quite well, and provides a degree of narrative thrust that is often missing from such scholarly anthologies.