Revisiting Art Deco in the UK
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 49
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780429032165-6
- Book title
- The Routledge Companion to Art Deco
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- ISBN
- 9781472485144
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Revisiting Art Deco in the UK’ is a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Art Deco (2018) which comprises work by the leading figures in the field internationally. Massey was approached to contribute a chapter to the volume, based on the book Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture (2000). This book investigated popular style from a feminist and class-based perspective, using auto-ethnography. The new chapter offered an opportunity to revisit the work, and formed the basis for a historiography of Art Deco in Britain, which formed the first part of the chapter.
The second part of the chapter looked at a case study in the form of the interior design of three, public rooms at Regents Palace Hotel in London. Originally built in 1915, this area was refurbished in 1935 and restored in 2012. The research for the chapter drew on original primary sources in the form of trade journals and newspapers, photographs held by English Heritage, interviews with the architect responsible for the 2012 restoration, Tanvir Hasan of Insall Associates, and site visits. The methodology drew from design history and also recent work in the field of interiors practice based research on the concept of the palimpsest or time slippages.
As a result of the publication, Massey was invited to speak about her analysis and research at Insall Associates in 2020.
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- Non-English
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