Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- The velvet masquerade: fashion, interior design and the furnished body -- 1 Crafting queer spaces: privacy and posturing -- 2 'She weaves by night and day, a magic web with colours gay': trapped in the Gesamtkunstwerk or the dangers of unifying dress and interiors -- 3 Structure, cladding and detail: the role of textiles in the associations between identity, the interior and dress, 1860-1920 -- 4 Translating textiles: 'private palaces' and the Celtic fringe, 1890-1910 -- 5 Decadent décors and torturous textiles: fatal fashions and interior design in the fin-de-siècle novels of Rachilde -- 6 Chinese robes in Western interiors: transitionality and transformation -- 7 Modernism, Orientalism, craft: French couture and the early furniture of Eileen Gray -- 8 Furnish the land of my dreams: life and theatre of Louise and Frederick Coates -- 9 Designing sapphic modernity: fashioning spaces and subjects -- 10 Framing the modern woman: Elsie de Wolfe, from clothes horse to interior decorator -- 11 Cross-dressing fashion and furniture: Giorgio Armani, Orientalism and nostalgia -- Index