Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment

Exploring the culture of interior design and architecture in the Age of the Enlightenment

Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History and Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

Preface Introduction: The Interior in the Age of Enlightenment - Stacey Sloboda 1. Beauty: Cultural Aesthetics in the Enlightenment Interior - Anne Nellis Richter 2. Technology: Cultural Transfer, Imitation, and Improvement of Materials and Surfaces of the Interior - Noémie Étienne 3. Designers, Professions, Trades: Conceiving and Making the Interior - Conor Lucey 4. Global Movements: Exoticism and Hybridity in the Globalized Interior - Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding 5. Private Spaces: Performing the Home - Mimi Hellman 6. Public Spaces: Staging Ritual and Shaping Identity - Laurel O. Peterson 7. Gender and Sexuality: The Desire of Decor - Michael Yonan 8. The Interior in the Arts: Literary and Visual Representations - Karen Lipsedge and Melinda McCurdy Bibliography Index