Mere Decorating

Cambridge Dictionary, s.v. “merely,” ➝.

Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime,” in Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays, ed. Adolf Opel (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1997); Hermann Muthesius, Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformation of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and its Present Condition, Texts & Documents (Los Angeles: the Getty Center Publications Program, 1994), 79.

Le Corbusier, Towards A New Architecture (London: Dover, 1986), 95.

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retrospective Manifesto for Manhattan (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1994), 279.

Christopher Hawthorne, “Dallas’s Perot Museum: Design as mere decoration,” The Washington Post, March 30, 2013; Edwin Heathcote, “The problem with ornament,” The Architecture Review, September 3, 2015.

See: “Sculpture in Our Time,” in Clement Greenberg: the Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, ed. John O’Brian (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993), 55.

Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge & Kegan, 1978), 33.

Boris Groys, “The Topology of Contemporary Art,” in Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, ed. Terry Smith, et al. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008), 79; Susan Sontag, “On Style,” in Against Interpretation (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966).

Hans Georg Gadamer, “The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative,” in Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, ed. Neil Leach (London: Taylor & Francis, 2005), 130.

Elizabeth Grosz, Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, The Decoration of Houses (London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897), 172.

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,” in Untimely Meditations, ed. Daniel Breazeale (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 123.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II (London: Oxford University Press, 1975), 765.

Jessica Bossari, “Growth of the Home Decor Market Shows No Signs of Slowing Down,” Forbes, October 24, 2012, ➝.

Bryce Covert, “Putting a Price Tag on Unpaid Housework,” Forbes, May 30, 2012, ➝.

“News of the Month,” in The Floral World and Garden Guide, ed. Shirley Hibberd (September 1867): 287.

Wikipedia, s.v. “pteridomania,” ➝.

Sarah Whittingham, The Victorian Fern Craze (Oxford: Shire Books, 2009), 25.

Ibid., 23.

Edward Newman, A History of British Ferns (London: John Van Voorst, 1840), xi.

Ann B. Shteir, “Gender and ‘Modern’ Botany in Victorian England,” Osiris 12 (1997): 29.

Emanuel D. Rudolph, “Women in Nineteenth Century American Botany; A Generally Unrecognized Constituency,” American Journal of Botany 69, no. 8 (September 1982): 1346.

Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies, ed. Claire Connnolly (2nd edn. 1798; London: J. M. Dent, 1993), 21, quoted in Rudolph, “Women in Nineteenth Century American Botany,” 1346.

John Burton, Lectures on Female Education and Manners (Dublin: J. Milliken, 1794), quoted in Rudolph, “Women in Nineteenth Century American Botany,” 1346.

Ibid., Shteir, 31.

John Lindley, Introductory Lecture Delivered in the University of London on Thursday, April 30, 1829 (London: John Taylor, 1829), 17, quoted in Shteir, 33.

John Lindley, Ladies’ Botany: or, A Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany (London: James Ridgeway, 1834–1837), quoted in Shteir, “Gender and ‘Modern Botany,” 35.

Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (New York: W. W. Norton & Company).

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books), 34.

Ibid., Whittingham, 13.

Ibid., Foucault, 121.

Charles Kingsley, Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore (London: Macmillan and Co., 1859), 4–5.

Ibid., Whittingham, 19.

Ibid., Whittingham, 19.

Walter Benjamin, “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” in The Arcades Project (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 8.

Ibid., 9.

Hannah Gold, “Are Millennials Obsessed With Houseplants?” Jezebel, September 7, 2017, ➝; Lilian Min, “Getting to the Root of the Millennial Plant Obsession,” Cosmopolitan, September 7, 2017, ➝.

Sadie Levygale, “Green Revolution: How the Houseplant Became Hip Again,” The Telegraph, March 23, 2017, ➝; Debora Robertson, “How Houseplants Charmed a Generation of Gardeners,” The Telegraph, January 16, 2016, ➝.

Erin Kobayashi, “Why Millennials are Becoming Proud Plant Parents,” The Toronto Star, February 18, 2017, ➝; Marianne Binetti, “Millennials Take Their Turn at Gardening,” The Olympian, February 4, 2017, ➝.

Matthew Appleby, “Houseplants: The Fastest Garden Centre Growth Sector?” Horticulture Week, July 20, 2017, ➝.

Lauren Smith, “Ferns Are Winning the Houseplant Popularity Contest,” HouseBeautiful, March 24, 2017, ➝.

Megan McDonough, “These Five Plants Don’t Just Look Good — They Improve Your Health, Too,” The Washington Post, November 9, 2016, ➝.

Evan Sharp, Interview with Patrick Burgoyne, “Pins and pixels: an interview with Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp,” Creative Times, October 4, 2016, ➝.

Lauren Indvik, “What People Are Pinning on Pinterest,” Mashable, March 12, 2012, ➝.

Wendy Brown, Interview with Timothy Shenk, “Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?” Dissent Magazine, April 2, 2015, ➝.

Evan Sharp, “Designing Discovery,” The Next Web, June 12, 2015, ➝.

Ibid.

Rachel Eisenberg, “Pinterest and the Power of Future Intent,” Millward Brown, May 12, 2015.

Salman Aslam, “Pinterest by the Numbers: Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts.” Omnicore, January 23, 2017, ➝.

Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, “95% Of Domestic Workers Are Women. In California, They’re Demanding Better Pay.” Huffington Post, March 8, 2016, ➝.

Shawn Shimpach, “Realty Reality: HGTV and the Subprime Crisis.” American Quarterly 67 no. 3 (September 2012). ➝.

Petula Dvorak, “Addicted to a Web site called Pinterest: Digital crack for women.” The Washington Post, February 20, 2012, ➝.

Amanda Sims, “Beware the Pinterest House.” Architectural Digest, August 3, 2017, ➝.