Author Description

This Collection Of Essays Considers The Interiors Of The Modern Era And Their Reconstructions From Different Viewpoints. Exploring Themes And Examples By Prestigious Architects, The Book Reveals The Specific Coding Of Presented Interior Spaces. The Modern Period Room: A Contradiction In Terms? -- Interiors Without Walls: Choice In Context At Moda -- Stopping The Clock: The Preservation And Presentation Of Linley Sambourne House, 18 Stafford Terrace -- The Double Life: The Cultural Construction Of The Exhibited Interior In Modern Japan -- The Restoration Of Modern Life: Interwar Houses On Show In The Netherlands -- 'a Man's House Is His Art': The Walker Art Center's Idea House Project And The Marketing Of Domestic Design 1941-7 -- Domesticity On Display: Modelling The Modern Home In Post-war Belgium, 1945-1950 -- Kettle's Yard: Museum Or Way Of Life? -- Two Viennese Refugees: Lucie Rie And Her Apartment -- The Preservation And Presentation Of 2 Willow Road For The National Trust -- Photographs Of A Legacy At The Dorich House Museum. Edited By Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin And Trevor Keeble. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 181-184) And Index.