Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior

Anne Massey is a Professor of Design at Middlesex University, London, UK, and is a design writer and researcher. Penny Sparke is a Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), a Professor of Design History and the Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London, UK.

Contents: Introduction, Penny Sparke and Anne Massey ; No body's place: on 18th-century kitchens, Carolyn Steedman; The many lives of Red House, Barbara Penner and Charles Rice; At home, 16 Tite Street, Richard W. Hayes; Writing home: the colonial memories of Lady Barker, 1870-1904, Emma Ferry; Body, room, photograph: negotiating identity in the self-portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell, Inga Fraser; Inside out: Elsa Schiaparelli, interiors, and autobiography, Tom Tredway; Illusion and delusion: validating the artificial interior, Gene Bawden; Jean Genet, or the interiors of marginality in 1930s Europe, Cristobal Amunategui; Mario Praz: autobiography and the object(s) of memory, Shax Riegler; Art, architecture and life: the interior of Casa de Vidro, the house of Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi, Aline Coelho Sanches Corato; Negotiating interiority: displacement and belonging in the 'autoportraits' of Lydia Maria Julien, Harriet Riches; The private self: interior and the presenting of memory, Vesna Goldsworthy; Bibliography; Index.