Creating Interior Atmosphere

1. Creating Interior Atmosphere: An Introduction
Introduction
What is Interior Design?
Scope of this book - Interior Design and Mise-en-scène
What is Atmosphere?
Conclusion
Further Reading - Exploring atmosphere

2. What's in a Room? The Principles of 'Mise-en-scène'
The Power of the Interior
What is 'Mise-en-scène?'
What is an 'Interior' Mise-en-scène?
Conclusion
Further Reading - Exploring Mise-en-scène

3. The Interior Setting: The Backdrop or 'Skin' of the Space
What is an Interior Setting?
What is the physical environment - the skin?
Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, creating an interior setting
Case Study One: Surface Skin - 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', Robert Wiene
Case Study Two: Surface Skin - Rough Luxe Hotel, Rabih Hage
Case Study Three: Manipulated Skin -Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole
Case Study Four: Layered Skin - 'Re-Set', Petra Blaisse
Case Study Five: Three Dimensional Skin - KU64 Kids Club, GRAFT
Conclusion
Further Reading - Exploring the 'Interior Setting'

4. What is an Interior 'Prop'? Accessories, furniture, fixtures and equipment
Introducing Interior Props
Using Interior Props
Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, props and atmosphere
Case Study One: Accessories, furniture and fixtures - The Ace Hotel, Roman and Williams
Case Study Two: Furniture - 'A Clockwork Orange', Stanley Kubrick
Case Study Three: Equipment - 'Break Down', Michael Landy
Case Study Four: Fixtures- Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre, Frank Gehry
Case Study Five: Props as fixtures - Kesselskramer, FAT
Conclusion
Further Reading - Exploring Interior Props

5. 'Special Effects': Interior Space and Experiences
Introducing Interior Special Effects
Special Effects - Perception and Atmosphere
Examples of Interior Mise-en-scèneand their special effects
Case Study One: Implied Space - 'Dogville', director Lars von Trier
Case Study Two: Illusory Space - La Maison Champs Elysées, Maison Martin Margiela
Case Study Three: Sensory Space - Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, Campaign, The Future Laboratory and Givauden
Case Study Four: Use of Scale - 'Citizen Kane', director Orson Welles
Case Study Five: Sensory Space - Alcoholic Architecture, Bompas & Parr
Conclusion
Further Reading - Considering Special Effects

6. Light and Shadow: Uncovering its Dramatic Role
Introducing Light and Shadow
Lighting and Atmosphere
Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène - using light and shadow
Case Study One: Shadow - 'Nosferatu'
Case Study Two: Artificial Light - 'The Weather Project', Olafur Eliasson
Case Study Three: Natural Light - D.E. Shaw Offices and Co., Steven Holl
Case Study Four: Candle light - Sam Wannamaker Playhouse - Allies & Morrison and Jon Greenfield
Case Study Five: Digital Light - The West Lobby in The Cosmopolitan, Rockwell Group's LAB
Conclusion
Further Reading - Exploring Light and Shadow

7. Colour: A Technicolor© Inner World
Introducing Colour
Colour and Atmosphere
Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, using colour
Case study One: Colour - 'The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover', director Peter Greenaway
Case study Two: Colour - Spiegel Publishing Headquarters by Verner Panton
Case study Three: Colour via pattern - 'Dots Obsession' by Yayoi Kusama
Case study Four: Colour via graphics - The Hotel by Jean Nouvel
Case study Five: Colour -Wards 23 & 29, Bradford Royal Infirmary
Conclusion
Further Reading - Exploring Colour