The Senses in Interior Design
Sensorial Expressions and Experiences
Published on 3. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-5261-9077-2 (ISBN)
Description
The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the traditional focus on star designers or ideal interiors that have left sensorial agency at the margins of design history. From the sensually gendered role of the fireplace in late sixteenth century Italy to the synaesthetic decors of Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the sensorial stimuli of Aesop stores, each chapter brings a new perspective on the central role that the senses have played in the conception, experiences and uses of interiors. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
57 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
475 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-9077-2 (9781526190772)
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John Potvin | Marie-Eve Marchand | Benoit Beaulieu
The Senses in Interior Design
Sensorial Expressions and Experiences
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09/2023
1st Edition
Manchester University Press
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John Potvin | Marie-Eve Marchand | Benoit Beaulieu
The Senses in Interior Design
Sensorial Expressions and Experiences
E-Book
09/2023
1st Edition
Manchester University Press
€200.99
Available for download
Persons
John Potvin is a Professor of Art History at Concordia University
Marie-Eve Marchand is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia University
Benoit Beaulieu is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Concordia University -- .
Marie-Eve Marchand is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia University
Benoit Beaulieu is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Concordia University -- .
Content
Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses - Marie-Eve Marchand
Part I: Sensory politics
1 Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior - Erin J. Campbell
2 Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and its condemnation - Benoit Beaulieu
3 Re-assessing Pierre Legrain's 'Black Deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior - John Potvin
4 'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35 - Alice T. Friedman
5 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior 1933-45 - Serena Newmark
Part II: Aesthetic entanglements
6 Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room - Louisa Iarocci
7 Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930 - Michael Windover and James Deaville
8 The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany - AEnne Soell
9 Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design - Grace Lees-Maffei
Part III: Sensual economies
10 Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition - Claire I. R. O'Mahony
11 The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c. 1945-75 - Fiona Fisher
12 Interiorising the senses - David Howes
13 Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book - Ben Highmore
14 Aesop's sensory experience - D. J. Huppatz
Index -- .
Part I: Sensory politics
1 Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior - Erin J. Campbell
2 Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and its condemnation - Benoit Beaulieu
3 Re-assessing Pierre Legrain's 'Black Deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior - John Potvin
4 'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35 - Alice T. Friedman
5 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior 1933-45 - Serena Newmark
Part II: Aesthetic entanglements
6 Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room - Louisa Iarocci
7 Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930 - Michael Windover and James Deaville
8 The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany - AEnne Soell
9 Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design - Grace Lees-Maffei
Part III: Sensual economies
10 Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition - Claire I. R. O'Mahony
11 The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c. 1945-75 - Fiona Fisher
12 Interiorising the senses - David Howes
13 Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book - Ben Highmore
14 Aesop's sensory experience - D. J. Huppatz
Index -- .