A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age

Christina M. Anderson, Dr Elizabeth A. Carroll (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7788-7 (ISBN)

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Furniture is a unique witness to the transformations of private and public experience amidst the upheavals of the 20th century. How we work, rest and play are determined by the embodied encounter with furniture, defining and projecting a sense of identity and status, responding to and exemplifying contrasting social conditions, political and economic motivations, aesthetic predilections and debates. Assessing physical and archival evidence drawn from a spectrum of iconic and under-represented case studies, an international team of design historians collaborate in this volume to explore key methodological questions about how the production, consumption and mediation of furniture reveal shifting cultural habits and histories across diverse contexts amidst modernity.

Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Claire I.R. O'Mahony is Associate Professor of History of Art and Design in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, UK.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface

Introduction, Claire I. R. O’Mahony

1. Design and Motifs, Trevor Keeble
2. Makers, Making, and Materials, Antony Buxton
3. Types and Uses, Marjan Groot
4. The Domestic Setting, Penny Sparke
5. The Public Setting, Helena Chance
6. Exhibition and Display, Claire I. R. O’Mahony
7. Furniture and Architecture, Gregory Votolato
8. Visual Representations, Clive Edwards
9. Verbal Representations, Anja Baumhoff

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Co-Autor	Professor Megan Aldrich
Zusatzinfo	32 colour and 28 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4725-7788-4 / 1472577884
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-7788-7 / 9781472577887
Zustand	Neuware