Designing the Modern Interior

General Introduction: Penny Sparke


PART ONE: THE LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1870-1900)
Introduction: Emma Ferry


1. Plate Glass and Progress: Victorian Modernity at Home, Trevor Keeble, Kingston University
2. Privacy and Supervision in the Modernised Public House Interior 1872-1902, Fiona Fisher, Kingston University
3. The German Interior at the End of the Nineteenth Century Sabine Wieber, Roehampton University


PART TWO: THE EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1900-1940)
Introduction: Penny Sparke


4. Taking Amusement Seriously: Modern Design in the Twenties, Christopher Reed, Lake Forest College, Chicago
5. 'The scene in which the daily drama of personal life takes place': Towards the Modern Interior in early 1930s Britain, Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University
6. The Modern Interior as the Geography of Image, Space and Subject, Irene Nierhaus, Bremen University, Germany
7. 'Leaving Traces'. Anonymity in the Modernist House, Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven Universitat, Belgium
8. The Geography of the Diagram: The Rose Seidler House, Charles Rice, University of New South Wales, Sydney


PART THREE: THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1940-1970)
Introduction: Penny Sparke


9. Hans Scharoun and the Interior, Peter Blundell Jones, The Univrsity of Sheffield
10. New Environments for Modern Living: 'At Home' with the Eameses, Pat Kirkham, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York
11. Italy's New Domestic Landscape, 1945-1972, Penny Sparke, Kingston University
12. Ocean Liners, Resort Hotels and the Architecture of Leisure, Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
13. Nationalism and Design at the End of Empire, Anne Massey, Kingston University


PART FOUR: THE LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1970 - present)
Introduction: Trevor Keeble


14. The Dark Side of the Modern Home, David Crowley, Royal College of Art
15. Locating the Modern Impulse within the Japanese Love Hotel, Sarah Chaplin, Kingston University
16. The Contemporary Interior: Trajectories of Biography and Style, Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
17. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED): Encouraging Sustainable Living in the UK, Anne Chick, Kingston University


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