Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior

Fiona Fisher and Patricia Lara-Betancourt are Postdoctoral Researchers in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, London.Trevor Keeble is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University.Brenda Martin is the Curator of the Dorich House Museum at Kingston University.

• General Introduction, Brenda Martin, Kingston University, UKPART I: 1850-1900Introduction1. From Historic Dress to Modern Interiors: The Design Theory of Jakob von Falke, Eric Anderson, Kendall College of Art and Design, USA2. Sensation and Interior Description in Nineteenth-Century London, Mark Taylor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia3. Wearing and Inhabiting the Past: Promoting the Colonial Revival in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America, Bridget A. May, Marymount University, USA4. The Viennese Coffeehouse: A Legend in Performance, Tag Gronberg, University of London, UKPART II: 1900-1940Introduction5. ‘At Home' at the St James's: Dress, Décor and the Problem of Fashion in Edwardian Theatre, Christopher Breward, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK6. Designing Lucile Ltd: Couture and the Modern Interior 1900-1920s, Samantha Erin Safer, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK7. ‘Paris, Hollywood': Viewing Parisian Modernity through the Lens of the Séeberger Brothers, 1909-39, Andrew Stephenson, University of East London, UK8. Fashioning Thrift: Finding the Modern in Everyday Environments, Mary Anne Beecher, University of Manitoba, CanadaPART III: 1940-1970Introduction9. The Modern Home, Western Fashion and Feminine Identities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Turkey, Meltem Ö Gürel, Bilkent University, Turkey10. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Performing Identity in Public and Private, Marilyn Cohen, Parsons The New School for Design, USA11. Front and Back of House: Staging Queer Domesticity in New Canaan, Alice Friedman, Wellesley College, USA12. Dressing the Part(y): 1950s Domestic Advice Books and the Studied Performance of Informal Domesticity in the UK and the US, Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire, UKPART IV: 1970-PRESENTIntroduction13. In-habiting Site: Contemporary Art Practices Within the Historic Interior, Helen Potkin, Kingston University, UK14. Lobby Living: the Performance of Lifestyle, Nicky Ryan, University of the Arts, UK15. ‘Stay with Armani': Giorgio Armani and the Pursuit of Continuity, Stability and Legacy, John Potvin, University of Guelph, Canada16. Designing for the Screen: the Creation of an Everyday Illusion, Teresa Lawler, Kingston University, UK17. The Spectacular Form of Interior Architecture Under the New Conditions of Urban Space, Pierluigi Salvadeo, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyNotesSelect BibliographyIndex