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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'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. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. To this end, a variety of media and representational techniques are discussed side by side, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films. Structured into three parts and including chapters by leading scholars addressing a wide range of subjects, this book is intended to broaden understanding of French interiors, from historical, theoretical and practice-based perspectives, and provides an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

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French Connections : The Modern Interior and Mass Media / Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor -- Impolite Reading and Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France / Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor -- Intimate Vibrations : Inventing the Dream Bedroom / Fae Brauer -- Angels and Rebels : The Obsessions and Transgressions of the Modern Interior / Anca I. Lasc -- Machines and Monsters : The Modern Decadent Interior as Spectacle in Huysmans's À Rebours / Emilie Sitzia -- La Maison Suspendue : Imaginary Solutions for an Everyday Domestic Machine / Peter Olshavsky -- The Interiorization of Identity : Portrait Busts and the Politics of Selfhood in Pre- and Early Revolutionary France / Ronit Milano -- A Portable Keyhole into the Fictional Apartment Building : The Interiors of Félix Vallotton and Émile Zola / Karen Stock -- The Fin-de-siècle Poster : A Healthy Modern Stimulus in the French Interior / Katherine Brion -- Mode of a Modern Muse : Fashion and Interior in Édouard Vuillard's Paintings of Misia Natanson / Jess Berry -- The Decadent Interior as Modern Lesbian Aesthetic / Elizabeth Melanson -- Mallet-Stevens, Modern Design and French Cinema / Nieves Fernández Villalobos -- Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée's Photo-Interviews : Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press / Elizabeth Emery -- Hôtel Baronne Salomon de Rothschild 1872-1878 : The Imprint of a Legacy / Linda Stevenson and Susan Tate -- "Un Bel Atelier Moderne" : The Montparnasse Artist at Home / Louise Campbell -- Housing the New Dandy : Designing Lifestyle in Monsieur Magazine, 1920-1924 / John Potvin -- "Fashions in Living" : The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 4, Route du Champs d'Entraînement, Paris / Peter McNeil -- "Si ma cuisine m'était comptée" : Paris Match and the Salon des arts ménagers during the Fourth Republic / Guillaume De Syon.

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