The Senses in Interior Design

Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses – Marie-Ève 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 – Änne Söll 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 -- .