| Title |
A Study on the Modern Residences for Domesticity - Focused on Robert Kerr's Writing on the 19th Century English Middle Class Houses - |
| Authors |
Cinn Eun-Gee ; Kim Kwang-Hyun |
| Keywords |
Domesticity ; Room ; Arrangement ; Interior |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to analyze how the residential spaces have been adapted to the domesticity, especially in the 19th century middle class family as an archetype of the modern domesticity. Since the modern domesticity was established around the early 19th century, the domestic spaces have been organized and decorated to embrace the ideal domestic characters like privacy, intimacy, or domestic comfort. In this study, the characters of the 19th century English domestic spaces, especially described by Robert Kerr, were studied in the aspect of the room arrangement and the interior. Therefore the 19th ideal domestic spaces can be understood as the collective of the individual rooms which are defined by the specific domestic activity categorized according to the degree of formality and sociality. The independency of each room was also found in its interior decorations, which emphasized the closeness of the rooms. But this individuality was replaced by the open plan organization entirely dedicated for the family togetherness only later. |