Gebundenes Buch

The Politics of Furniture

Identity, Diplomacy and Persuasion in Post-War Interiors

Herausgeber: Floré, Fredie; McAtee, Cammie

Beschreibung

Bringing together a range of international studies, this volume discusses the agency of modern furniture in post-war interiors. It argues that modern furniture played a critical and underestimated role in the crafting of political messages in very diverse arenas between the 1940s and the 1970s.

Autor

Fredie Floré is an engineer-architect and Associate Professor in history of (interior) architecture at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture. She is a member of the research group Architecture Interiority Inhabitation (A2I). Her research focuses on the representational role of architecture, interiors and design in the post-war era. Cammie McAtee is an independent curator and architectural historian based in Montréal. For many years, she was a curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her research focuses on post-war North American architecture and design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781472453556
• ISBN-10: 1472453557
• Artikelnr.: 47613439