Designing the French Interior traces France‎'‎s central role in the development of the modern domestic interior‎,‎ from the pre‎-revolutionary period to the 1970s‎,‎ and addresses the importance of various media‎,‎ including drawings‎,‎ prints‎,‎ pattern books‎,‎ illustrated magazines‎,‎ department store catalogs‎,‎ photographs‎,‎ guidebooks‎,‎ and films‎,‎ in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience‎.‎ Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images‎,‎ a site for display of both highly crafted and mass‎-produced objects‎,‎ and the direct result of widely‎-circulated imagery in its own right‎.‎ This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture‎,‎ interior spaces‎,‎ material cultures‎,‎ mass media and modernity‎.‎