Designing the French Interior traces Frances central role in the development of the modern domestic interior; from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s; and addresses the importance of various media; including drawings; prints; pattern books; illustrated magazines; department store catalogs; photographs; guidebooks; and films; in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images; a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects; and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture; interior spaces; material cultures; mass media and modernity.
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