The senses in interior design :: sensorial expressions and experiences /

"The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the traditional focus on star designers or ideal...

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Other Authors: Potvin, John (Editor), Marchand, Marie-Ève (Editor), Beaulieu, Benoit (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Series:Studies in design and material culture.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the traditional focus on star designers or ideal interiors that have left sensorial agency at the margins of design history. From the sensually gendered role of the fireplace in late sixteenth century Italy to the synaesthetic décors of Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the sensorial stimuli of Aesop stores, each chapter brings a new perspective on the central role that the senses have played in the conception, experiences and uses of interiors"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781526167835
1526167832
9781526167811
1526167816

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