Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France

The Visual Culture of a New Profession

Anca I. Lasc (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5158-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape. -- .

This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to ‘sell’ the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history. -- .

Anca I. Lasc is Associate Professor of History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute, USA -- .

Introduction
1 The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator: popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior
2 The inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name
3 Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes
4 The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs
5 Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic
Epilogue: the presentness of historicism: the Musée centennal du mobilier and the legacy of proto-interior designers
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Design and Material Culture
Zusatzinfo	28 colour illustrations, 71 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-5261-5158-8 / 1526151588
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-5158-2 / 9781526151582
Zustand	Neuware