Interiors in the Era of Covid-19: Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms

313 Pages·2023·26.841 MB·English

by  Penny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott, Jana Scholze

Interiors in the Era
of Covid-19
ii
Interiors in the Era
of Covid-19
Interior Design between the Private and
the Public Realms
PENNY SPARKE, ERSI
IOANNIDOU, PAT KIRKHAM,
STEPHEN KNOTT, JANA
SCHOLZE
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Contents
List of illustrations viii
Notes on contributors xv
Introduction Penny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou,
Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott, Jana Scholze 1
SECTION ONE Homes, health and well-being
11
1 Live gym classes at home: Lea Daan and broadcast body
movement in 1930s Belgium Selin Geerinckx and Els de Vos 13
2 Dancing across the threshold: Privacy and the home in the time
of Covid-19 Alice T. Friedman 25
3 Achieving well-being in simple ways: Cosy, comfortable and
contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna Michelle
Jackson-Beckett 35
4 The quest for health and well-being in Japanese homes from
late nineteenth century to Covid-19 Izumi Kuroishi 47
5 A space of their own: A case study advocating appropriation
of the domestic interior for well-being Eliza Sweeney and
Sebastian Messer 61
SECTION TWO The unstable home
73
6 The re-materialization of everyday life: New aesthetic
experiences of staying at home in Sweden during the Covid-19
pandemic Maja Willén 75
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7 Room for independence: Home-based women workers and
their interiors Fiona Del Puppo and Paule Perron 87
8 Working at home: Architects during the pandemic in China Ye
Xu, Katharina Borsi and Jonathan Hale 101
9 From Caseta to Cuarto: The spaces of restorative and
transitional justice in Colombia before and during the Covid-19
pandemic Cynthia Imogen Hammond, Greg Labrosse, Vanessa
Sicotte and Marcela Torres Molano 113
10 Games without frontiers – Covid living in refugee camps Mark
Taylor and Iris Levin 127
SECTION THREE Representing the (in)visible
139
11 Tell don’t show: The invisible plague in Dutch seventeenth-
century paintings of the domestic interior Irene Cieraad 141
12 Lockdown portraits: Resituating the self Inga Bryden 155
13 Fiction: IKEA’s saleable living for pandemic life Rebecca
Carrai 167
14 Nice white spaces: Race and class in domestic cleaning ads
during Covid-19 Rachele Dini 181
15 Uncanny on display: Musée Dom-Ino. A virtual museum of
domesticity in lockdown Nina Bassoli and Roberto Gigliotti 195
SECTION FOUR Collecting the interior in the era
of Covid-19
207
16 Changing scenes: Image-making from parlour to
screen Patrick Lee Lucas 209
17 Shelter in Place Gallery: Exhibiting contemporary art and
creating community in a pandemic Michelle Millar Fisher, Eben
Haines and Courtney Harris 221
CONTENTS vii
18 The Domestic Body Stefania Napolitano 233
19 Interior Archipelago – postcards from our islands Lois Weinthal,
Patrick Macklin, Wen Liang and Alice Huang 247
20 Stay Home – rapid response collecting project at the Museum
of the Home Danielle Patten 259
Index 271
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 The Icosohedran in use at the Lea Daan School, 1938,
Collection City of Antwerp, Letterenhuis 17
1.2 Lea Daan during a radio class, two female dancers in action,
c. 1938, Collection City of Antwerp, Letterenhuis 18
1.3 Cover for Wie Turnt er mee … met het N.I.R? Radio programme
brochure 28, NIR 19
1.4 Practitioner exercising close to the open window in the
sun, no date. Courtesy Archive Lea Daan, Collection City of
Antwerp, Letterenhuis 21
2.1 The living room transformed for Zumba fitness classes 28
2.2 Multiple computer screens for teaching 29
2.3 Participants on one of many Zoom screens 30
2.4 Modelling a hat after class 32
3.1 Was in Wien Modern ist? Die wohlangewandte Ecke
(What is modern in Vienna. Modern Spatial Art: The Well-
Used Corner), Wiener Bilder, 7 September 1930. ANNO/
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Public domain 41
3.2 Fritz Gross, ‘Einwohnraum’ (A single multi-use room for living,
dining, working and sleeping). InnenDekoration (January
1929). Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. Public domain 42
3.3 Ernst Plischke, ‘Das Blumenfenster’ (design for a windowsill
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
garden), Profil: Monatsschrift für bildende Kunst (April 1934).
ANNO/Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Public domain 43
3.4 Liane Zimbler, ‘Trennungswand in der Diele’ (Partition
wall in the hallway of an apartment). InnenDekoration
(August 1931). Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. Public
domain 44
4.1 Japanese historical dwelling depicted in ‘View of dwelling
from garden, Tokio’ in Edward S. Morse’s Japanese House
and their Surroundings (1886). Edward S. Morse 51
4.2 Plan of the first prize design, Healthy Housing
Competition, organized by Osaka Mainichi Newspaper,
1930. Osaka Mainichi Newspaper 53
4.3 Uzo Nishiyama’s axonometric sketch of the interior of
his small dwelling designed by Dojunkai in the 1930s.
Courtesy Nishiyama Bunko Archive 54
4.4 Uzo Nishiyama’s sketch of a typical n+LDK dwelling in
the 1970s. Courtesy Nishiyama Bunko Archive 56
5.1 A scenographic spaceship: A table with recycled materials
and personal belongings. Sebastian Messer. Drawing by
Sebastian Messer 66
5.2 A space helmet: Paper grocery bag, aluminium foil, coloured
card stars. Sebastian Messer. Drawing by Sebastian Messer 67
6.1 Laptop table, illustration from IKEA catalogue, 2021 78
6.2 A living room working space, illustration from IKEA
catalogue, 2021 79
6.3 Women working from home, photo from Hemmakontor by
Daniel Nilsson, 2021 80
6.4 Couple working from home, photo from Hemmakontor
by Daniel Nilsson, 2021 81