Research Catalog

Title

The senses in interior design : sensorial expressions and experiences / edited by John Potvin, Marie-Ève Marchand and Benoit Beaulieu.

Publication

• Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Potvin, John
• Marchand, Marie-Ève
• Beaulieu, Benoit

Description

xvii, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the traditional focus on star designers or ideal interiors that have left sensorial agency at the margins of design history. From the sensually gendered role of the fireplace in late sixteenth century Italy to the synaesthetic décors of Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the sensorial stimuli of Aesop stores, each chapter brings a new perspective on the central role that the senses have played in the conception, experiences and uses of interiors"--

Series Statement

Studies in design and material culture

Uniform Title

Studies in design and material culture.

Subject

• Senses and sensation in interior decoration
• Interior decoration > History
• Interior decoration

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses / Marie-Ève Marchand -- Part I. Sensory politics. 1. Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior / Erin J. Campbell ; 2. Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and its condemnation / Benoit Beaulieu ; 3. Re-assessing Pierre Legrain's 'black deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior / John Potvin ; 4. 'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35 / Alice T. Friedman ; 5. Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior 1933-45 / Serena Newmark -- Part II. Aesthetic entanglements. 6. Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room / Louisa Iarocci ; 7. Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930 / Michael Windover and James Deaville ; 8. The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany / Änne Söll ; 9. Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design / Grace Lees-Maffei -- Part I. Sensual economies. 10. Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition / Claire I. R. O'Mahony ; 11. The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c. 1945-75 / Fiona Fisher ; 12. Interiorising the senses / David Howes ; 13. Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book / Ben Highmore ; 14. Aesop's sensory experience / D. J. Huppatz.

Call Number

JQE 23-617

ISBN

• 1526167824
• 9781526167828
• 9781526167811 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781526167835 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1373335840

Title

The senses in interior design : sensorial expressions and experiences / edited by John Potvin, Marie-Ève Marchand and Benoit Beaulieu.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in design and material culture

Studies in design and material culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Potvin, John, editor.

Marchand, Marie-Ève, editor.

Beaulieu, Benoit, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781526167811

Research Call Number

JQE 23-617