Bloomsury have just published a Cultural History of Furnture. My contrbution was for voiume 6 (See below)
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age Edited by Claire I. R. O’Mahony, University of Oxford, UK
1. Design and Motifs, Trevor Keeble
2. Makers, Making, and Materials, Antony Buxton 3. Types and Uses, Marjan Groot
4. The Domestic Setting, Penny Sparke
5. The Public Setting, Helena Chance
6. Exhibition and Display, Claire I. R. O’Mahony
7. Furniture and Architecture, Gregory Votolato
8. Visual Representations, Clive Edwards
9. Verbal Representations, Anja Baumhoff
Visual representations of twentieth-century furniture in advertising, salescatalogs, and other visual devices provide core evidence of the “cultural history”
of furniture. This chapter not only examines the role of visual cultures of consumption in formulating taste, markets, and identities through the persuasion
of advertising, graphic design, and commercial photography but also through theatrical/filmic use, televisual commercials, and websites. This methodology
allows for historical analysis through the lens of visual culture. To some extent it also provides a corrective to the emphasis on many “designer” furniture objects that have made up much of the popular history of twentieth-century furniture.
Fro full detials see A Cultural History of Furniture: Volumes 1-6: The Cultural Histories Series Christina M. Anderson Bloomsbury Academic for ful detuals