Appropriated Interiors uncovers the ways interiors participate explicitly and implicitly in embedded cultural and societal values and explores timely emergent scholarship in the fields of interior design history, theory, and practice.
What is "appropriate" and "inappropriate" now? These are terms with particular interest to the study of the interior. Featuring thirteen original curated essays, Appropriated Interiors explores the tensions between normative interiors that express the dominant cultural values of a society and interiors that express new, changing, and even transgressive values. With case studies from the late eighteenth century to the twenty-first century, these historians, theorists, and design practitioners investigate the implications of interior design as it relates to politics, gender, identity, spatial abstraction, cultural expression, racial expression, technology, and much more.
An informative read for students and scholars of design history and theory, this collection considers the standards, assumptions, codes, and/or conventions that need to be dismantled and how we can expand our understanding of the history, theory, and practice of interior design to challenge the status quo.
Author(s): Deborah Schneiderman, Anca I. Lasc, Karin Tehve
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 254
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I Small
Introduction
1 Duvet Entendre: Getting in Bed with the Continentals
2 “This Is How We Live”—[In]Appropriate Rooms: Nonconformist Apartment Exhibitions and the Case of the Communal Apartment, 1982–1984
3 The Material Culture of the Palestinian Duyuf
4 A ‘Proper’ Home: Channeling Political Values through Interior Design in a Dictatorship
Section II Medium
Introduction
5 The Queer White Cube: The Art of Contemporary Queer Interventionist Interiors
6 Appropriation or Appreciation: A New/COVID Street View
7 Oblique/Interior
8 Ponte City, Johannesburg: A History of Appropriation and the Appropriation of History
Section III Large
Introduction
9 Art and “Architecture Afloat”: Orient Line and the Avant-Garde
10 Regenerative Debris: Re-Collage and the Collective Memory of the Cut
11 Inner-Propriations: Degrowing the Interior
12 Stalled! Restrooms: Inclusive Design through a Cross-Disciplinary Lens
Index
