Domestic Interiors

In the act of enclosing space and making rooms we make and define our aspirations and identities.<br/><br/>Taking a room by room approach this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves 'at home'. <br/><br/>Scholars from the US UK and Australasia re-visit and re-think interiors by Bonnard Matisse Degas and Vuillard as well as the great spaces of early modernity; the drawing room in Rossetti's house hallways in Hampstead Garden Suburb the Paris attic of the Brothers Goncourt; Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen to explore how interior making has changed from the Victorian to the modern period.<br/><br/>From the smallest room - the bathroom - to the spacious verandas of Singapore Deco <i>Domestic Interiors</i> focuses on modern rooms 'imaged' and imagined it builds a distinct body of knowledge around the interior interiority representation and modernity and creates a rich resource for students and scholars in art architecture and design history.