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Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today

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Unknown Fisher, Fiona Berg (London, 2017) (eng) English 9781474293969 Unknown English ed. TEXTILE FABRICS IN INTERIOR DECORATION; Includes bibliographical references; Scholars from Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior environments (...) to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably-dressed body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which interiors can give shape to and dramatise modern life.
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Introduction: 1850-1900 --
From historic dress to modern interiors: the design theory of Jakob von Falke --
Frederic Leighton's 'Narcissus' Hall: sensation and interior description in nineteenth-century London --
Wearing and inhabiting the past: promoting the Colonial Revival in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America --
The Viennese coffeehouse: a legend in performance --
Introduction: 1900-1940 --
'At home' at the St. James's: dress, décor and the problem of fashion in Edwardian theatre --
Designing Lucile Ltd: couture and the modern interior 1900-1920s --
'Paris, Hollywood': viewing Parisian modernity through the lens of the Séeberger brothers, 1909-1939 --
Fashioning thrift: finding the modern in everyday environments --
Introduction: 1940-1970 --
The modern home, Western fashion and feminine identities in mid-twentieth-century Turkey --
Breakfast at Tiffany's: performing identity in public and private --
Front and back of house: staging queer domesticity in New Canaan --
Dressing the part(y): 1950s domestic advice books and the studied performance of informal domesticity in the UK and the US --
Introduction: 1970-present --
In-habiting site: contemporary art practices within the historic(al) interior --
'Lobby living': the performance of lifestyle --
'Stay with Armani': Giorgio Armani and the pursuit of continuity, stability and legacy --
Designing for the screen: the creation of an everyday illusion --
The spectacular form of interior architecture under the new conditions of urban space.

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