lecture course

Entering the second year of studies

Lecture devoted to history of furniture and residential interiors from ancient to modern times. Main styles and phenomena in interior architecture, types of furniture, profiles of designers, design concepts and realizations in context of political, political and social changes will be presented.

Culture of living in antiquity (Egypt, Greece, Rome).
Middle Ages: emergence of a new social order and its influence on interiors.
Residential tower, castle as a point of resistance and dwelling. Formal and functional analysis
Renaissance: increased need for representativeness (palazzo in Italy, palatial layouts in France) and new types of furniture that created it.
Baroque: court of Louis XIV - architecture and luxurious elements of interior design as a document of unlimited power of the Sun King.
Bourgeois interiors on the example of a Dutch house.
Rococo - birth of modern approach to interior design.
Classicism: towards clarity and simplicity of late antique Pompeian interiors.
Biedermeier: bourgeois cosiness and modesty.
Industrial Revolution. Thonet chairs as a harbinger of modern design.
The flourishing of the Vicotrian style and the 1851 World Exhibition in London.
Birth of Arts and Crafts movement - William Morris and design reform.
National romanticism and the peculiar style in interior architecture.
Charles R. Mackintosch and the "Glasgow School."
Art Nouveau and the Vienna workshop
The Dresden Workshop and the Deutscher Werkbund - German attempts to bring art into industry and stimulate the economy.
Bauhaus: a revolution in interior and furniture design.
"Frankfurt Kitchen" and "Polish Kitchen".
The great economic crisis of 1929 and the birth of modern style.
Stremline, styling and "designed obsolescence".
The Ulm School and the heirs of the Bauhaus
Britain and the Festival of Britain on the 100th anniversary of the Great Industrial Exhibition.
The age of plastic - thermoplastics in furniture and interior design.
Ecological awareness and product "ethics" - new challenges for designers.

A student gets a credit for the first semester on the basis of a written test "Description of a historical interior". Credit of semester II - based on written work. Students choose their own topic after consultation with lecturer or choose from the list of topics made available during the classes.

The assessment criteria include: general knowledge of the lectures, correct use of professional vocabulary related to furniture and interior design, ability to determine the style of the interior, naming and recognizing its most characteristic features and furnishings. In addition, the assessment will include the substantive value of the submitted written work, the ability to use sources, formulate theses and draw conclusions.

Graded credit based on written work at the end of the winter and summer semesters (max. 2 pages).

Słownik terminologiczny sztuk pięknych, wyd. PWN;

G. Adamson, J. Pavitt, Postmodernism. Style and subversion, 1970-1990, London 2011;

C. Benton, T. Benton, R. Wood (red.), Art deco 1910-1939, London 2003;

D. Bilbey, Britain can make it. The 1946 Exhibition of Moderrn Design, London 2018;

D. Crowley, J. Pavitt, Cold War Modern. Design 1945-1970, London 2008;

Ch. i P. Fiell, Design. Historia projektowania, Warszawa 2013;

P. Greenhalgh, Art nouveau 1890-1914, London 2000;

Grzeluk, Słownik terminologiczny mebli, Warszawa 2000;
R. Guidot, Design 1940-1990, Warszawa 1998;

Huml, Polska sztuka stosowana XX wieku, Warszawa 1978;
S. HInz, Wnętrza mieszkalne i meble, Warszawa 1980;

K. Livingstone, L. Parry (red.), International Arts and Crafts, London 2005;

C. Pese, U. Peters, Idea Thoneta. Meble z drewna giętego i rur stalowych, katalog wystawy, Nurnberg 1989;

Rosales-Rodriguez (red.), Polski biedermeier - romantyzm udomowiony, Warszawa 2017
S. Sienicki, Historia architektury wnętrz mieszkalnych, Warszawa 1954;

S. Sienicki, Wnętrza mieszkalne. Rys historyczny, Warszawa 1962;

Sieradzka art deco w Europie i w Polsce, Warszawa 1996;
C. Wilk, Modernism 1914-1939. Designing a new world, London 2006;

G. Wood (red.), Surreal things, London 2007;

P. Dąbrowski, J. Mrowczyk, Widzieć/Wiedzieć. Wybór najważniejszych tekstów o dizajnie, Kraków 2012;

J. Hubner-Wojciechowska, Art Deco. Przewodnik dla kolekcjonerów, Warszawa 2013;

J. Hubner-Wojciechowska, Lata 60. Sztuka użytkowa. Przewodnik dla kolekcjonerów, Warszawa 2014;

M. Korżel-Kraśna, Klasycyzm. Przewodnik dla kolekcjonerów, Warszawa 2014

A. Kostrzyńska-Miłosz, Polskie meble 1918-1939. Forma Funkcja –Technika, Warszawa 2005;

P. Lasek, Turris fortissima nomen Domini, Warszawa 2013;

J. Woch, Biedermeier. Przewodnik dla kolekcjonerów, Warszawa 2006;