- Title
- Radiant beauty: Mary Haweis's thoughts on beauty, body and interior space
- Creator
- Taylor, Mark
- Relation
- House & Home from a Theoretical Perspective: ARCHTHEO '12 Theory pf Architecture Conference. House & Home from a Theoretical Perspective: ARCHTHEO '12 Conference Proceedings (Istanbul, Turkey 31 October - 3 November, 2012) p. 330-341
- Relation
- http://www.archtheoconference.net/p/keynote-speakers.html
- Publisher
- Dakam Publishing
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- In the latter half of nineteenth-century England there emerged a growing awareness of the decorative 'artistic' interior. This interest spurred by the ready availability of manufactured products and a developing interest in household arrangements was also fuelled by bourgeois affectations. To help decipher 'good' products and interiors from those unacceptable to prevalent taste and style, there appeared a number of advice manuals and periodical articles. Many were aimed at upper and middle class women, who if they were gifted took on the role of decorator, or employed a professional to affect their aspirations. Grace Lees-Maffei argues that advice writers presented domesticity as professionalised, valorising 'homemaking to be as much a form of production as consumption'. At the same time some of these same women were also championing women's rights and enacting forms of protestation, either as direct advocates or social commentators on change and disruption; including reconciling traditional values with the world of the 'new woman'. Annmarie Adams and Peta Tancred, confirm that '[a]s early as 1876, women were employed as professional, independent interior decorators in England, with close links to feminist political struggles'. Mary Haweis addressed both areas, cultivating a strong following through her writing on beauty, dress and the decorative interior, and lecturing and arguing on the merits of women's achievements.
- Subject
- Mary Eliza Haweis; interior design; taste; style
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055443
- Identifier
- uon:15882
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786054514045
- Language
- eng
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