Interiors play a crucial role in the construction of identity and they represent power and control through the contestation or transgression of boundaries. This title investigates the complexities of the interior environment's orchestration and composition and its impact on the inhabitant from a trans-disciplinary perspective.
Anne Massey is professor of design and culture at Huddersfield University and professorial fellow at the University of the Creative Arts, England. She is the author of The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture, 1945–1959; Interior Design Since 1900; and six other books. She has edited five volumes, including A Companion to Contemporary Design Since 1945, and was founding coeditor of the journal Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture. She lives in London.