sensorial expressions and experiences text Print books. Manchester Manchester University Press 2025 monographic eng

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253 pages The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the traditional focus on star designers or ideal interiors that have left sensorial agency at the margins of design history. From the sensually gendered role of the fireplace in late sixteenth century Italy to the synaesthetic décors of Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the sensorial stimuli of Aesop stores, each chapter brings a new perspective on the central role that the senses have played in the conception, experiences and uses of interiors." John Potvin (Editor), Marie-Ève Marchand (Editor), Benoit Beaulieu (Editor) NA2850 .C45 2025 9781526190772 au 251225 20251225071531.0 eng