The Modern Period Room : The Construction of the Exhibited Interior 1870-1950

ISBN-13: 9780415374705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str.

Trevor Keeble

Opis

How does one turn a house containing artworks into a museum? How does one narrate the story of the lives that were lived there? How authentic can a retrospective reconstruction of interior spaces and their contents be?
The contributors of "The Modern Period Room," drawn from a broad range of disciplines, consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstruction from a variety of different viewpoints. Beneath the conceptual and physical strategy of the representational technique of the modern period room lie numerous conflicting intentions.
This collection of essays by design historians, architects and curators engages with these tensions. The authors explore themes and examples by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Truus Schroeder and Gerrit Rietveld, Ernö Goldfinger and others in a bid to reveal the specific cultural encoding of presented interior spaces.
The book's critical engagement with the issues and conventions which surround the modern period room will allow historians and theorists of architecture, design and social history to investigate the contexts in which this representational device has been used. The various models of period room enables the reader to understand just how dynamic, contributory and ultimately interventionist the presentation of the period room is in the process of architectural and design history making.

Recenzje

'This book will be of particular interest to students of interior decorating and to architects who wish to study the interaction of furniture with the design of their buildings. However, it is easily readable, and can be recommended to persons who contemplate furnishing or refurnishing their homes.' – Architecture Science Review

Spis treści

Contributors Biographies  List of Figures  Preface  Introduction  1. The Modern Period Room – A Contradiction in Terms?  2. Interiors Without Walls: Choice in Context at MoDA  3. Stopping the Clock: The Preservation and Presentation of Linley Sambourne House, 18 Stafford Terrace  4. The Double Life: The Cultural Construction of the Exhibited Interior in Modern Japan  5. The Restoration of Modern Life: Interwar Houses on Show in the Netherlands  6. 'A Man's House is his Art': The Walker Art Center's Idea House Project and the Marketing of Domestic Design 1941-1947  7. Domesticity on Display: Modelling the Modern Home in Post-War Belgium (1945-1950)  8. Kettles Yard: Museum of Way of Life?  9. Two Viennese Refugees: Lucie Rie and her Apartment  10. The Preservation and Presentation of 2 Willow Road for the National Trust  11. Photographs of a Legacy: Dora Gordine and Dorich House  Index  Bibliography

O autorze

Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin, Trevor Keeble