Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the McKim, Mead & White dining room at Kingscote (1881), in Newport, Rhode Island, as a multisensorial space associated with the late nineteenthcentury Aesthetic movement in the United States. Embellished with a range of objects and decorative details, this holistic environment stimulated all of its visitors' senses: sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. Rather than presenting Kingscote as solely a product of a class-driven, Gilded Age society, this study and its digital components instead identify the dining room as an ambient space aimed at educating the senses and exerting a spiritual effect on the dweller and guests.
Source: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Author: Lea C. Stephenson
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3183572151