Designing the French interior : : the modern home and mass media / / [edited by] Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey, and Mark Taylor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lasc, Anca I.,; Downey, Georgina,; Taylor, Mark, 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages) :; illustrations

"Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributo...

Table of Contents

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• 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's A 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, Tel Aviv University, 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'Entrainement, 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
• Index.