Indhold: Representations (The empty core of Western aesthetics (versus the aesthetics of Eastern intimacy) : a reading of interior spaces and literary Impressionism in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India / Victor Vargas. The exhibitionary re-production of the "Islamic interior" / Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive. Orientalism and David Hockney's male-positive imaginative geographies / Dennis S. Gouws. The excessive trompe l'oeil : the saturated interior in Tears of the black tiger / Mark Taylor and Michael J. Ostwald). Gendered and sexual identities (Oriental interiors in eighteenth-century British women writers' novels / Marianna D'Ezio. Bachelor quarters : spaces of Japonisme in nineteenth-century Paris / Christopher Reed. Coming out of the China closet? : performance, identity and sexuality in the House beautiful / Anne Anderson. At the edge of propriety : Rolf de Maré and Nils Dardel at the Hildesborg estate / John Potvin). Spaces and markets of consumption ("Heraldic fantasies in blue and red and silver" : orientalism, luxury and social corruption in the South Sea directorial houses / Eric Weichel. Promoting the colonial empire through French interior design / Laura Sextro. Paradise in the parlor : cozy corners and potted palms in Western interiors, 1880-1900 / Penny Sparke. Traveling in time and space : the cinematic landscape of the Empress Theatre / Camille Bédard. "Flights of unpractical fancy" : oriental spaces at sea from the Titanic to the Empress of Britain / Anne Massey. Posturing for authenticity : embodying otherness in contemporary interiors of modern yoga / Lauren Bird)