Taste: Media and Interior Design

by Karin Tehve
Taste: Media and Interior Design
Author: Karin Tehve
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2023-06-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000897478
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This book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does. Karin Tehve examines taste primarily through its recursive relationship to media. This ongoing process changes the relationship between designers and the public, and our understanding of the relationship of individuals to their social contexts. Through an analysis of taste, design is understood to be an active constituent of social life, not as autonomous from it. This book reclaims a term long dismissed from interior design and unveils taste’s role as a powerful social and political agent within systems of aesthetics, affecting both its producers and consumers. Each chapter discusses a taste concept or definition, analyzes its reciprocal relationship with media, and explores its implications for interior design. Illustrated with 70 images, taste’s relationship to media is viewed through a variety of different lenses, including books, photography, magazines, internet, social media and algorithms. Written primarily for students and scholars of interior design and related design fields, this book will be a helpful resource for all those interested in the question of taste, and is an invitation to produce and consume all media critically.

After Taste

by Kent Kleinman
After Taste
Author: Kent Kleinman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1616890266
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AfterTaste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design is an edited volume comprising texts, interviews and portfolios that collectively document new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. The material is informed by, but not limited to, the annual AfterTaste symposia hosted by Parsons The New School of Design. The book s central argument is that the field of interior design is inadequately served by its historical reliance on taste-making and taste-makers, and, more recently from a set of theoretical concerns derived from architecture; the volume seeks to set an expanded frame by advancing new voices and perspectives in both the theory and practice of interior design, considered as an independent discipline. In 2007, the Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting at Parsons The New School for Design inaugurated an annual international symposium series dedicated to the critical study of the interior. Titled AfterTaste, these yearly symposia offer expansive views of interior studies, highlight emerging areas of research, identify allied practices, make public its under-explored territory, and attract future designers and scholars to the field. Now in its fourth year, AfterTaste has proven to be one of the very few venues internationally for critically exploring interior design. The field of interior design is asymmetrically served by the current literature in the field. Too frequently, the current writing and making in interiors emphasize the ineffable, the biographical, and the social elite, and promote a curiously unsubstantiated notion of connoisseurship as the principal basis for design. Other attempts to construct an intellectual agenda for the study of the interior draw heavily from architectural theory, ignoring the discipline s own specific and autonomous history. AfterTaste, the book, is intended to adjust this imbalance by introducing interior design material that is theoretically and historically situated, technically grounded, demographically inclusive, and aesthetically adventurous.

Taste

by Drew Plunkett
Taste
Author: Drew Plunkett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000033651
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Democratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the ‘amateur’ householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed, it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underpinned by academic rigour, but not in thrall to it, above all this book is an engaging attempt to identify the cultural drivers of aesthetic change in the home, extrapolating the wider influence of ‘taste’ to a broad audience – both professional and ‘trade’. In so doing, it will explore enthralling territory – money, class, power and influence. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and cartoons as well as photos, the book will not only be an absorbing read, but an enticing and attractive object in itself.

The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

by Graeme Brooker
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design
Author: Graeme Brooker
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1472539028
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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world. Interior architecture and interior design are disciplines that span a complexity of ideas, ranging from human behaviour and anthropology to history and the technology of the future. Approaches to designing the interior are in a constant state of flux, reflecting and adapting to the changing systems of history, culture and politics. It is this process that allows interior design to be used as evidence for identifying patterns of consumption, gender, identity and social issues. The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design provides a pioneering overview of the ideas and arrangements within the two disciplines that make them such important platforms from which to study the way humans interact with the space around them. Covering a wide range of thought and research, the book enables the reader to investigate fully the changing face of interior architecture and interior design, while offering questions about their future trajectory.

Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details

by Charles L. (Charles Locke) Eastlake
Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details
Author: Charles L. (Charles Locke) Eastlake
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781290890762
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Celerie Kemble

by Celerie Kemble
Celerie Kemble
Author: Celerie Kemble
Publisher: Potter Style
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0307394425
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Kemble reveals dozens of the coveted residences she has designed, and also teaches readers how to blend their real lives and the fantasy lives they imagine in their own homes. 200 full-color photographs throughout.

Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France

by Anca I. Lasc
Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France
Author: Anca I. Lasc
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2018-07-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1526113406
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This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to ‘sell’ the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, the book establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history.

The House Book

by Terence Conran
The House Book
Author: Terence Conran
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1976
Genre: Interior decoration
ISBN: 9780517526279
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A profusely illustrated guide to every aspect of decorating provides ideas and techniques for increasing the beauty and comfort of homes of all styles and sizes