Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses - Marie-Ève Marchand Part I: Sensory politics 1 Heated bodies: fireplaces and the senses in the early modern Italian domestic interior - Erin J. Campbell 2 Sensitive design: Robert de Montesquiou's sensorial installations and its condemnation - Benoit Beaulieu 3 Re-assessing Pierre Legrain's 'Black Deco': sensual luxury, primitivism and the French bourgeois interior - John Potvin 4 'Brother and I in bed': queer photography at home in New York, 1925-35 - Alice T. Friedman 5 Conquering the home front: Nazi propaganda and sensory experiences in the German domestic interior 1933-45 - Serena Newmark Part II: Aesthetic entanglements 6 Into the sensorium: scenes from the dressing room - Louisa Iarocci 7 Site-reading: placing the piano in middle-class homes, 1890-1930 - Michael Windover and James Deaville 8 The Herrenzimmer: masculinity, the senses and interior design in turn-of-twentieth-century Germany - Änne Söll 9 Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design - Grace Lees-Maffei Part III: Sensual economies 10 Forging foam at the 1925 Paris Exhibition - Claire I. R. O'Mahony 11 The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c. 1945-75 - Fiona Fisher 12 Interiorising the senses - David Howes 13 Sensorial worlds and atmospheric scenes in Terence Conran's The House Book - Ben Highmore 14 Aesop's sensory experience - D. J. Huppatz Index.