Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today

General Introduction, Brenda Martin, Kingston University, UK PART I: 1850-1900 Introduction 1. From Historic Dress to Modern Interiors: The Design Theory of Jakob von Falke, Eric Anderson, Kendall College of Art and Design, USA 2. Sensation and Interior Description in Nineteenth-Century London, Mark Taylor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 3. Wearing and Inhabiting the Past: Promoting the Colonial Revival in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America, Bridget A. May, Marymount University, USA 4. The Viennese Coffeehouse: A Legend in Performance, Tag Gronberg, University of London, UK PART II: 1900-1940 Introduction 5. 'At Home' at the St James's: Dress, D cor and the Problem of Fashion in Edwardian Theatre, Christopher Breward, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK 6. Designing Lucile Ltd: Couture and the Modern Interior 1900-1920s, Samantha Erin Safer, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK 7. 'Paris, Hollywood': Viewing Parisian Modernity through the Lens of the S eberger Brothers, 1909-39, Andrew Stephenson, University of East London, UK 8. Fashioning Thrift: Finding the Modern in Everyday Environments, Mary Anne Beecher, University of Manitoba, Canada PART III: 1940-1970 Introduction 9. The Modern Home, Western Fashion and Feminine Identities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Turkey, Meltem G rel, Bilkent University, Turkey 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Performing Identity in Public and Private, Marilyn Cohen, Parsons The New School for Design, USA 11. Front and Back of House: Staging Queer Domesticity in New Canaan, Alice Friedman, Wellesley College, USA 12. Dressing the Part(y): 1950s Domestic Advice Books and the Studied Performance of Informal Domesticity in the UK and the US, Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire, UK PART IV: 1970-PRESENT Introduction 13. In-habiting Site: Contemporary Art Practices Within the Historic Interior, Helen Potkin, Kingston University, UK 14. Lobby Living: the Performance of Lifestyle, Nicky Ryan, University of the Arts,

Fiona Fisher and Patricia Lara-Betancourt are Postdoctoral Researchers in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, London. Trevor Keeble is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University. Brenda Martin is the Curator of the Dorich House Museum at Kingston University.