1925 Paris Exhibition
Black Deco
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domestic interior
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hearing
Herrenzimmer
interior design
middle-class home
Nazi propaganda
Pierre Legrain
queer photography
sensory politics
sensory studies
sensual economies
sight
smell
synaesthesia
taste
Terence Conran
touch
Product details
- ISBN 9781526190772
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 décors 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.
John Potvin is a Professor of Art History at Concordia University
Marie-Ève Marchand is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia University
Benoit Beaulieu is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Concordia University
