‘Decorators May be Compared to Doctors’: An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestion for House Decoration in Painting,Woodwork and Furniture (1876)

Ferry, Emma

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“…We can borrow from reception theory (Iser 1974; and feminist literary theory (Ardener 1975;Showalter 1979;Lerner 1979) the understanding that gaps and silences in domestic advice books are semantically rich: what is not said is as powerful as what is said in creating ideals which subjugate certain groups and voices. Emma Ferry's (2003) analysis of British home decoration literature is an exemplary design historical application of this method for better understanding gender. The approach may be extended still further to national identity in design and design discourse: because ethnic diversity is ignored in mainstream media treatments of domesticity, an analysis which reads between the lines to understand how race/ethnic and cultural diversities are encoded in domestic advice discourses may be fruitful.…”

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Designing Worlds

2016

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From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

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2016

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“…My own work on domestic advice literature has argued for an analytical focus on the mediating sources themselves as worthy of narrative analysis, rather than simply being used as historical evidence. 98…”

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The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm

Lees‐Maffei

2009

Journal of Design History

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This article elaborates a production-consumption-mediation paradigm in design history, to examine both the development of design history over the past three decades and the current and future practice of design history, specifically within the UK. While John A. Walker made the case in 1989 for increased design historical attention to be paid to issues of consumption, this article identifies mediation as a third stream in design history, with three prongs: first, the mediation emphasis continues the consumption turn within design history by exploring the role of channels such as television, magazines, corporate literature, advice literature and so on in mediating between producers and consumers and forming consumption practices and ideas about design; second, the mediation emphasis examines the extent to which mediating channels are themselves designed and therefore open to design historical analysisindeed, these channels have increasingly constituted the design historian"s object of study; third, the mediation emphasis investigates the role of designed goods themselves as mediating devices. The identification of the PCM paradigm, and the discussion of the methodological and interdisciplinary issues arising provided here, including the relationship of design history to neighbouring fields, have implications for conceptions of the field of design history, in both content and approach.

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“…Later, in her 1930 text, The Personality of a House, the American etiquette and home advisor, Emily Post, further developed de Wolfe's ideas proclaiming that, "The personality of a house, the quality that appeals not merely to our critical faculties but to our personal emotions, has been left out altogether -overlooked perhaps, or possibly taken for granted" (Post 1930: 1). A number of contemporary scholars -Emma Ferry and Grace Lees-Maffei among them -have revisited the world of domestic advice literature and amateur homemaking showing it to be as much a part of the modern interior as the model offered by the modernist architects and designers who deplored amateurism in this context (see Lees-Maffei 2001;Ferry 2003). The debate about professionalism versus amateurism in the formation of the modern interior has been highlighted by the emergence of a body of literature that seeks to rescue the lives, ideas, and activities of several of the (often female) professional interior decorators who emerged in the early twentieth century but who, in the years after 1945, were largely replaced by the more architecturally oriented professional interior designers.…”

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The Modern Interior: A Space, a Place or a Matter of Taste?

Sparke

2010

Interiors

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This article provides an overview of the work that has addressed the subject of the "modern interior," showing how it has been discussed within a wide variety of contexts, including that of architectural and design modernism (which emphasized the concept of "space"); that of the social, cultural, and psychological links between interiors and their modern inhabitants (which focused on the idea of "place"); and that of the decorative arts (which prioritized the importance of "taste"). It offers a historiographical approach to the "modern interior" and seeks to demonstrate both the subject's fundamental multidisciplinarity and its inherent complexity. The article suggests that the study of the modern interior must embrace that complexity, recognizing and acknowledging the importance of both modernism and modernity, as well as that of the roles of "interiority" and "representation," both visual and literary.

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‘Decorators May be Compared to Doctors’: An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestion for House Decoration in Painting,Woodwork and Furniture (1876)

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