Interior Interruptions

Rehabilitating the Old to Design the New

Jean Whitehead

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Routledge
07 February 2025

Product design; Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Professional interior design; Conservation of buildings & building materials

Interior Interruptions examines the role of the ‘palimpsest’ and its relationship to narrative, sustainability, renovation and adaptive reuse. By exploring storytelling, palimpsestic characteristics and techniques, the book argues that these devices play a central role in the consideration of the designed interior.

Narrative has a burgeoning relationship with the palimpsest and this approach embraces an aesthetic of incompleteness and imperfection as a site rich response. It recognises the ongoing ‘biography’ or heritage of a building as a form of transient architectural narrative that encourages reuse through the continual process of writing, rewriting, overwriting and unwriting. This process has sustainable, societal, archaeological and textual connotations that can be interpreted as a process of ‘layering’ whereby the architectural shell is viewed as a container; a rich repository that is ‘overlain’ by surface changes, documents architectural and spatial modifications, and is populated by interior fixtures and fittings that all unite to create an ever-changing interior story.

Exploring case studies from the UK, Netherlands, Palestine, Belgium, Singapore, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Brazil, Japan, USA and China and beautifully illustrated in full colour, this book proposes that the act of interior renovation can be viewed as a perpetual form of revisionary storytelling re-imagined as a series of temporal interior ‘interruptions’. It is essential reading for students and professionals interested in the built environment, including, but not limited to, interior design, interior decoration, interior architecture and architecture.

By: Jean Whitehead
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781032353012
ISBN 10: 1032353015
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 07 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Interior Interruptions: An Introduction 2. What is a Palimpsest? 3. Palimpsest Techniques, Overwriting 4. Palimpsest Techniques, Unwriting 5. Palimpsest Techniques, Redrafting or from Interruptions to Disruptions 6. Interior Interruptions: A Conclusion

Jean Whitehead lives in the South West of England, has published extensively and has over 30 years’ experience in Higher Education, both within the UK and abroad. Jean is the recipient of the ‘Visionary Tutor’ award for Interior Design from the Society of British & International Design (SBID) and is the author of Creating Interior Atmosphere: Mise-en-scène and Interior Design.