Domestic interiors - Georgina Downey

In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities.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'. 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;
Schtte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen, to explore how interior making has
changed from the Victorian to the modern period.From the smallest room - the bathroom - to the spacious verandas of Singapore Deco, Domestic Interiors
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.