Shaping the American Interior: Structures, Contexts and Practices

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Introduction
1 Designing professionals: architects, decorators, clients, and the interior design process in the nineteenth century
2 Dealing in interiors: how Duveen Brothers and Maison Carlhian shaped an eighteenth-century French salon in 1920s New York
3 Elsie de Wolfe: a professional interior decorator
4 Designing the gender contest: (re)Locating the gay decorator in the history of interior design
5 For men by men: furnishing the YMCA
6 The Art-in-Trades Club: selling style
7 Demonstrating the profession: interior decorating instruction on early television
8 Coeds and t-squares: interior design education and home economics
9 “Principles, not effects”: Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., MoMA and the legitimization of interior design
10 “Apology areas”: interior decorating and the marketplace in the 1950s
11 Imaging interior design: beneath, beside, and within architecture
12 Modernism’s glass ceiling: women in commercial design after WWII
13 The future of cross-disciplinary practice
Index