The Problem of the House will appeal to art and architectural historians, students and scholars of architecture, interior designers, and decorative artists.
The Problem of the House : French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture
Description
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Raising Up the Bourgeois Home
--The Ordinary Supersedes the Extraordinary at the Expositions Universelles
--Structural Rationalism and the New French Home
--The Liberalization of the Bourgeois French Interior
--Domestic Themes in the Fine Arts
2. Design and Domestic Settings: The Salons D'Automne of 1910 to 1913
--1910: The German Challenge
--1911: Constructeur / Coloriste
--1912: Un Salon Bourgeois
--1913: The Good and the Well-Made Thing
3. The War, House Reconstruction, and Furniture Production
4. The End of Decorative Art, The Hour of Architecture
--Toward a Union of Modern Designers
--The End of Decorative Art
--The Hour of Architecture in France
--The Architects-Decorateurs
--French Modern Architecture
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Author Description
Alex T. Anderson is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington.