Designing the French Interior

French Connections: The Modern Interior and Mass Media, Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor

Section 1: Sex, Dreams and Desires: The Perversions of the Modern Interior
1. Impolite Reading and Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor, University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle, Australia
2. Intimate Vibrations: Inventing the Dream Bedroom,, Fae Brauer, University of East London, UK
3. Angels and Rebels: The Obsessions and Transgressions of the Modern Interior, Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA
4. Machines and Monsters: The Modern Decadent Interior as Spectacle in Huysmans' À Rebours, Emilie Sitzia, Maastricht University, Netherlands
5. La Maison Suspendue: Imaginary Solutions for an Everyday Domestic Machine, Peter Olshavsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Section 2: Aesthetics, Anxiety, and Identity: Reproducing a Decadent Domesticity
6. The Interiorization of Identity: Portrait Busts and the Politics of Selfhood in Pre- and Early Revolutionary France, Ronit Milano, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Israel
7. A Portable Keyhole into the Fictional Apartment Building: The Interiors of Felix Vallotton and Emile Zola, Karen Stock, Winthrop University, USA
8. The Fin-de-siecle Poster: A Healthy Modern Stimulus in the French Interior, Katherine Brion, University of Michigan, USA
9. Mode of a Modern Muse: Fashion and Interior in Edouard Vuillard's Paintings of Misia Natanson, Jess Berry, Griffith University, Australia
10. The Decadent Interior as Modern Lesbian Aesthetic, Elizabeth Melanson, University of Delaware, USA
11. Mallet-Stevens, Modern Design and French Cinema, Nieves Fernandez Villalobos, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Section 3: Intimacy, Longing and Performance: The Consumption and Display of the Celebrity Home
12. Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustree's Photo-Interviews: Belle Epoque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press, Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, USA
13. Hotel Baronne Salomon de Rothschild 1872-1878: The Imprint of a Legacy, Linda Stevenson and Susan Tate, University of Florida, USA
14. 'Un Bel Atelier Moderne': The Montparnasse Artist at Home, Louise Campbell, Warwick University, UK
15. Housing the New Dandy: Designing Lifestyle in Monsieur Magazine, 1920-1924, John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
16. 'Fashions in Living': The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 4, Route du Champs d'Entraînement, Paris, Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
17. 'Si ma cuisine m'etait comptee': Paris Match and the Salon des arts menagers during the Fourth Republic, Guillaume De Syon, Albright College, USA

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