Interiors : the home since 1700 / Steven Parissien.

By: Parissien, StevenMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Laurence King , 2009Description: 304 p. : ill. (some col.), plans; 26 cmContent type: ISBN: 9781856695381 (hbk.); 1856695387 (hbk.)Subject(s): Interior decoration -- History | Middle class -- Dwellings -- History | Interior architecture | Architecture, DomesticDDC classification: 747.09 LOC classification: NK1860 | P37 2009
Contents:
Introduction : Interiors and the designer -- The wind of change : the European home in 1700 -- Anglo-Saxon rectitude : the proportional interior in Britain and America -- Expanding horizons : Rococo and Chinoiserie -- Principles and proportion : the Neoclassical interior -- The democratic interior : celebrating the middle-class home in the early nineteenth century -- Backwards and forwards : 1851 and all that -- The colour of industry : western interiors and the possibilities of technology -- Mammon confronted : Arts and Crafts and design reform -- Clean and bright : the age of electricity -- Form and function : modernism and Art Deco -- Safety first : celebrating the familiar -- Embracing the machine : the postwar interior -- One foot in the past: back to the future -- Technology harnessed? : new century, new directions.
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Includes bibliographical references :p. (302)and index.

Introduction : Interiors and the designer -- The wind of change : the European home in 1700 -- Anglo-Saxon rectitude : the proportional interior in Britain and America -- Expanding horizons : Rococo and Chinoiserie -- Principles and proportion : the Neoclassical interior -- The democratic interior : celebrating the middle-class home in the early nineteenth century -- Backwards and forwards : 1851 and all that -- The colour of industry : western interiors and the possibilities of technology -- Mammon confronted : Arts and Crafts and design reform -- Clean and bright : the age of electricity -- Form and function : modernism and Art Deco -- Safety first : celebrating the familiar -- Embracing the machine : the postwar interior -- One foot in the past: back to the future -- Technology harnessed? : new century, new directions.

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