CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 8
Preface 9
Introduction
Modernity, Anti-Modernity,
Comfort and Decor since 1800 15
I.A Poetic Everyday Home? 27
II. Art in the Home: A New Discourse 35
The trades 35
The decorator 37
The architect 39
Books and periodicals 41
Shops and exhibitions 5(1
The purchaser 53
Women and interior decor 55
The dynamics of the illustration 58
III. The Unified Interior: From Decoration to Design 65
Competing materials 65
Plaster 68
Paint 70
Wallpaper 73
Textiles 80
Wood 95
Objects and their display 105
Upkeep 120
Colour 122
Materials 122
Early use 124
History and science 127
Eclipse 135
Form 138
Line and surface 143
Picturesqueness 145
IV. Atmosphere 155
Enter the imagined user 155
Privacy 156
Idylls unlimited 158
Domesticity 161
Poeticization through design
Comfort 171
Inside/outside 175
Tight enclosures 176
The new darkened interior 181
V. Character 201
Rooms and styles 201
Distant yet familiar: national and vernacular revivals 212
Old English I 214
Altdeutsch I 219
The old Low Countries 230
Old English II 239
Old Colonial 251
The old fireside 257
Old Alpine and Bavarian (Altdeutsch II) 264
French 18th-century revival 277
A European round-up 285
A poetics of interior design?
VI A Disparate Legacy 296
Enter the real user 301
The rise of designer power 305
The technically up-to-date household 307
and the authentic antique 310
Interiority: poetic house or poetic room? 314
Select Bibliography 317
Notes 321
Sources of Illustrations 345
Index 348