The senses in interior design : Sensorial expressions and experiences /
The senses in interior design : Sensorial expressions and experiences /
edited by John Potvin, Marie-�Eve Marchand, Benoit Beaulieu.
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Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses -- Part I Sensory politics -- Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior -- Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and their condemnation -- Reassessing Pierre Legrain's 'Black Deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior -- 'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior, 1933-45 -- Part II Aesthetic entanglements -- Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room -- Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930 -- The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany -- Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design -- Part III Sensual economies -- Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition -- The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c.1945-75 Interiorizing the senses -- Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book -- Aesop's sensory experience -- Index
Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors from the late sixteenth century to today. It provides new insight on the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and decoration.
9781526167835 1526167832 1526167816 9781526167811
22573/cats6478000 JSTOR
Interior decoration--History.
Senses and sensation in interior decoration.
D�ecoration int�erieure--Histoire.
Sens et sensations en d�ecoration int�erieure.
Electronic books.
NK2115.5.S46 / S46 2023
747
Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses -- Part I Sensory politics -- Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior -- Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and their condemnation -- Reassessing Pierre Legrain's 'Black Deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior -- 'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior, 1933-45 -- Part II Aesthetic entanglements -- Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room -- Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930 -- The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany -- Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design -- Part III Sensual economies -- Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition -- The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c.1945-75 Interiorizing the senses -- Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book -- Aesop's sensory experience -- Index
Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors from the late sixteenth century to today. It provides new insight on the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and decoration.
9781526167835 1526167832 1526167816 9781526167811
22573/cats6478000 JSTOR
Interior decoration--History.
Senses and sensation in interior decoration.
D�ecoration int�erieure--Histoire.
Sens et sensations en d�ecoration int�erieure.
Electronic books.
NK2115.5.S46 / S46 2023
747