Senses in Interior Design - Sensorial Expressions and Experiences

Decorators and designers have long experimented with materials, objects and technologies to enhance sensory awareness and wellbeing. But existing histories of interior design rarely feature any discussion of the senses. This volume offers a corrective, exploring how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilized within various forms of interior.

Grouped into three thematic clusters, exploring sensory politics, aesthetic entanglements and sensual economies, the chapters in this volume shed light on sensory expressions and experiences of interior design throughout history. They examine domestic and public interiors from the late-sixteenth century to the present day, giving back the body its central role in the understanding and use of interiors.

Drawing from fields including design history, design studies and sensory studies, The senses in interior design explores fundamental questions about identities, social structures and politics that reveal the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and decoration.

About the author

John Potvin is Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University, Canada

Product details

• Authors: John Marchand Potvin
• Assisted by: Benoit Beaulieu (Editor), Marie-Ève Marchand (Editor), Marie-Eve (Affiliate Assistant Professor) Marchand (Editor), John Potvin (Editor), Potvin John (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781526167828
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6782-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Decorative arts, Social & cultural history, DESIGN / Decorative Arts, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Architecture: interior design