Shaping the American Interior

This book maps out the development of the larger professional structures of interior design in the US from 1870 to 1960.

Introduction Paula Lupkin and Penny Sparke 1. Interior Designers of all Kinds: The Roles of Architects, Craftsmen, Furniture Manufacturers, and Clients in Creating Nineteenth-Century Domestic Interiors Erica Donnis and Susan Porter 2. Dealing in Interiors: How Maison Carlhian and Duveen Brothers Shaped European Spaces in America Teresa Morales and Anne-Marie Schaaf 3. Elsie de Wolfe: A Professional Interior Decorator Penny Sparke 4. Fags, Queens and Fairies: (Re)locating the Professional Gay Decorator in the History and Historiography of Interior Decorating John Potvin 5. For Men by Men: The YMCA Furnishings Bureau Paula Lupkin 6. The Art in Trades Club: Selling Style and Taste Patty Edmonson 7. "Principles Not Effects": The Museum Of Modern Art and the Discourse of Legitimization for Interior Design in Post-War America Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand 8. Demonstrating the Profession: Interior Design on Television Danielle Charlap 9. Co-Eds and T-Squares: Mid Twentieth Century Design Education Patrick Lee Lucas 10. Imaging Interior Design: beneath, beside, and within Architecture Penelope Dean 11. "Apology Areas:" Interior Decoration and the Marketplace in the 1950s Kristina Wilson