Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France - The Visual Culture of a New Profession

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Anca I. Lasc, Anca I. (Assistant Professor) Lasc
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781526113382
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1338-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design