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Inside the Fashionable House

Inside the Fashionable House Women Designers and their Interiors

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Inside the Fashionable House

Women Designers and their Interiors

Patricia Mears

Design / Fashion & Accessories

Explore the powerful impact that female fashion designers have had on interior design, from Coco Chanel's radical luxury in the interwar years to Mary Quant's mid-century 'youthquake revolution'.

This richly illustrated book documents an array of interiors commissioned by approximately 30 important clothing creators who, it shows, were influential beyond the realm of fashion too: From Jeanne Paquin, who experimented with Belle Époque interiors in grand salons and private homes to Jeanne Lavin, who established a celebrated interiors department in the interwar period, and the Baroness de Rothschild whose interiors as well as garments garnered a global following. Through this extraordinary cast of women, Patricia Mears demonstrates how female designers regularly used interior decoration to enhance their brands and enrich their personal lives.

From luxe, professionally-crafted couture salons and apartments to modest, self-decorated ateliers and homes, the spaces showcased by this book express the passion these female fashion creators devoted to their magical interiors.

Patricia Mears is Deputy Director of The Museum at FIT, USA, where she has worked since 2005. From 1991 to 2003, she was Assistant Curator of the costume and textiles collection at The Brooklyn Museum. Over the past three decades, she organized more than a dozen exhibitions and wrote the accompanying publications.

Publication Date: 16 September 2027
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN-13: 9781350530911
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 256
Weight (oz): 16.0

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