The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture

by Alex Thomas Anderson

Overview

The Problem of the House will appeal to art and architectural historians, students and scholars of architecture, interior designers, and decorative artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295986326
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	11/15/2006
Series:	McLellan Endowed Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alex T. Anderson is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington.

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