Art, Design & Architecture

We are delighted to announce that the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) has awarded Interiors the title of Best New Journal during their annual award ceremony, which took place at the Modern Language Association convention, in Seattle earlier this month. We are truly thrilled that the journal has received such an accolade and would like to take this opportunity to thank the editors, contributors and subscribers for all helping to make this journal a success.

The Judges comments:

The judges distinguished Interiors as particularly exceptional and praised the journal for making “a lasting mark on the interdisciplinary study of interior design theory.”

They commented on the articles’ “cultural implications well beyond the traditional borders of the discipline” and expressed admiration for “the visuals as well as the text regarding spatial relationships, social attitudes, and design.”

“The writing [is] focused and accessible to the lay person as well as architects…. the printed publication offered [attractive] visuals illustrating salient issues and spoke to the historical reflection of structure as a symbol of culture, community, and personality.”

Four members of The Modern Interiors Research Centre have co-edited this awaited volume, companion to Designing the Modern Interior (2010).

Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior examines the interior as a stage upon which modern life and lifestyles are consciously fashioned and performed, and from which modern identities are projected by and through design.

Scholars from Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior environments – domestic interiors, sets for stage and film, exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafés and retail spaces – to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably-dressed body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which interiors can give shape to and dramatise modern life.

About the Authors/Editors:

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.

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