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12 Ibid.
13 W. R. Leach, ‘Transformations in a Culture of Consumption: Women and Department
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14 Ibid., p. 328–9.
15 R. Laermans, ‘Learning to Consume: Early Department Stores and the Shaping of Modern
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16 Crossick and Jaumain, Cathedrals of Consumption, p. 321.
17 See M. F. Friedman, Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior (New York,
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18 Ibid., pp. 6–7.
19 Quoted by Donald Albrecht on www.russelwrightcenter.org/russelwright.html (accessed
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20 E. O. Burdg, The Manual of Show Window Backgrounds for Mercantile Display (Chicago,
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21 Ibid., p. 171.
22 See history.sandiego.edu/gen/soc/shoppingcenter.html. (accessed 8 February 2008)
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24 Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. H. Eiland and K. McLaughlin (Cambridge, ma
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25 See R. C. Post, ed., 1876: A Centennial Exhibition (Washington, dc, 1976).
26 J. Aynsley, ‘Displaying Designs for the Interior in Europe and America, 1850–1950’ in
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27 Private e-mail from Eric Anderson to the author, 13 December 2006.
28 See www.morrissociety.org/writings.html (accessed 8 February 2008)
29 R. Houze, ‘National Internationalism: Reactions to Austrian and Hungarian Decorative at
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30 T. Gronberg, Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris (Manchester, 1998, p. 13.
31 Ryan, The Ideal Home Through the Twentieth Century.
32 P. Greenhalgh, ‘The Style and the Age’ in Art Nouveau 1890–1914, ed. P. Greenhalgh
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33 The Architect and Building News, 27 September 1946, pp. 193–4.
34 Aynsley, ‘Displaying Designs for the Interior in Europe and America, 1850–1950’, p. 197.
35 N. Harris, ‘The Drama of Consumer Desire’, in O. Mayr and R. C. Post, Yankee Enterprise
(Washington, dc, 1981), p. 186. As Neil Harris has written, ‘Film’s influence on consumer
products, however subtle and complex, was probably as important as its provision of a
new set of celebrities . . . the objects redeemed by the camera ran the gamut from expensive
playthings, traditional objects of luxury, to the ordinary appliances of everyday life.
The presence of a certain style of clothing, a set of furniture, an interior décor, in a major
film, could touch off considerable public demand.’
36 L. Ray, ‘Achieving Eighteenth-Century Luxury with Modern Comfort’, in Arts and Decoration
(January 1938), p. 35.
37 A. Massey, Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture (Oxford and New York,
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