A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Habitat, the furniture and household goods retail chain, has been characterized as showing an eclectic approach towards design styles and promoting a lifestyle attitude towards domestic interiors. In an attempt to fill out these two terms and to explore the elusive (and allusive) content of Habitats eclectic lifestyle this article analyses the domestic scenography presented in three arenas of display that can be seen as being authored by Habitat: the shops themselves; the annual catalogues; and the advice books that were published under the authorship of Terence Conran and promoted and sold by Habitat (although also available more widely). I suggest that one way of recognizing the affective content of Habitats scenographic imagination is to regard it as constituting a genre that incorporates variety yet also mobilizes a particular set of domestic promises. OA
Habitat, the furniture and household goods retail chain, has been characterized as showing an eclectic approach towards design styles and promoting a lifestyle attitude towards domestic interiors. In an attempt to fill out these two terms and to explore the elusive (and allusive) content of Habitats eclectic lifestyle this article analyses the domestic scenography presented in three arenas of display that can be seen as being authored by Habitat: the shops themselves; the annual catalogues; and the advice books that were published under the authorship of Terence Conran and promoted and sold by Habitat (although also available more widely). I suggest that one way of recognizing the affective content of Habitats scenographic imagination is to regard it as constituting a genre that incorporates variety yet also mobilizes a particular set of domestic promises. OA
Habitats Scenographic Imagination
Highmore, Ben (author)
2017
Article (Journal)
English
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