Table of Contents

Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Penny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott & Jana Scholze

Section One: Homes, Health and Well-being

Chapter 1: Live Gym Classes at Home: Lea Daan and broadcast body movement in 1930s Belgium - Selin Geerinckx & Els De Vos
Chapter 2: Dancing Across the Threshold: Privacy and the home in the time of Covid-19 - Alice T. Friedman
Chapter 3: Achieving Well-being in Simple Ways: Cosy, comfortable, and contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna - Michelle Jackson-Beckett
Chapter 4: The Quest for Well-being in Japanese Dwellings from the Late Nineteenth Century to Covid-19 - Izumi Kuroishi
Chapter 5: A Space of their Own: A case-study advocating appropriation of the domestic interior for well-being - Eliza Sweeney & Sebastian Messer

Section Two: The Unstable Home

Chapter 6: The Re-materialisation of Everyday Life: New aesthetic experiences of staying at home in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic - Maja Willen
Chapter 7: Room for Independence - Home-based women workers and their interiors - Fiona Del Puppo & Paule Perron
Chapter 8: Working at Home - Architects during the pandemic in China - Ye Xu, Katharina Borsi & Jonathan Hale
Chapter 9: From ‘Caseta’ to ‘Cuarto’: The spaces of restorative and transitional justice in Colombia before and during the Covid-19 pandemic - Cynthia Hammond, Vanessa Sicotte, Marcela Torres Molano & Greg Labrosse
Chapter 10: Games without Frontiers: Covid living in refugee camps - Mark Taylor & Iris Levin

Section Three: Representing the (In)visible

Chapter 11: Tell Don’t Show: The invisible plague in seventeenth-century Dutch interior paintings - Irene Cieraad
Chapter 12: Lockdown Portraits: Re-situating the self - Inga Bryden
Chapter 13: Fiction: IKEA's saleable living for pandemic Life - Rebecca Carrai
Chapter 14: Nice White Spaces: Race and class in domestic cleaning adds during Covid-19 - Rachele Dini
Chapter 15: Lockdown Uncanny on Display: Muse´e Dom-Ino - Nina Bassoli & Roberto Gigliotti

Section Four: Collecting the Interior in the era of Covid-19

Chapter 16: Changing Scenes: Image-making, from parlour to screen - Patrick Lee Lucas
Chapter 17: Shelter in Place Gallery - Eben Haines, Michelle Millar Fisher, Courtney Harris
Chapter 18: The Domestic Body - Stefania Napolitano
Chapter 19: Interior Archipelago: Postcards from our islands - Lois Weinthal, Patrick Macklin, Wen Liang, Alice Wenyi Huang
Chapter 20: Stay Home: Rapid response collecting project at the Museum of the Home - Danielle Patten

Index

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Examining the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns on the domestic interior worldwide.

About the Author

Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, UK.

Ersi Ioannidou is Senior Lecturer in Interior Design at Kingston University, UK.

Pat Kirkham is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK.

Stephen Knott is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK.

Jana Scholze is Associate Professor and Course Director of the MA Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston University, UK.