- Title
- French connections: the modern interior and mass media
- Creator
- Lasc, Anca; Downey, Georgina; Taylor, Mark
- Relation
- Designing the French Interior The Modern Home and Mass Media p. 1-10
- Relation
- http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/designing-the-french-interior-9780857857798
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Balch Ingram's observation in Leslie's Weekly on the Vanderbilts' employment of French decorators indicates a high regard for these artisans and tradesmen at the end of the nineteenth century. Their employment outside France reflects an ongoing view that since the eighteenth century France has been the wellspring, nonpareil of superior taste in interior decoration and design (Craven 2005). The special French expertise for all things "interior" was recognized widely by many cultural producers from all over who flocked to the "art capital of the world:' In 1922, for example, Edith Fry, an Australian artist and art correspondent, wrote home to say that South Australian Bessie Davidson's Portrait de Famille D., which is reproduced in the Salon catalog, is a charming example of the "interior portrait" of which only artists in Paris "seem to know the secret" ( 1922: 2). It is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that while Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project (2002 [1927-1940]) dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century;' it could also claim to be "the capital of the modern interior;' a status that drew logically upon its preeminence in art and architecture, fashion, and the production of luxury goods for the private home. However, what is less well known is the contribution made by the mass media to spreading new ideas about the French interior. This multi-author volume addresses the intertwined relationship between media, decoration, and design and focuses on the interiors of one country and one culture, France, because of its central importance to the study of the modern interior.
- Subject
- mass media; France; interior design; modern interior
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1313221
- Identifier
- uon:22544
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780857857835
- Language
- eng
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