ABSTRACT
The interiors described in the case studies mediate people and things at an accelerating temporal scale at odds with both the assumption that constructed environments are fixed or that sharp distinctions can be drawn between types of interiors for display. Georg Simmel's fashion is analogous to the temporal scales mediated by interiors for display. Display as a program concerns a heterogeneous typology, encompassing galleries, museums, trade shows and retail in its myriad manifestations. Display programs together took advantage of the modern mobility of women and helped steer the traditional Sunday promenade from a public ritual on urban sidewalks into an interior pursuit. The interior promenade experience continued to perform the program of self-display while functioning as the ostensible rationale for the institutional visit; this gave hosting institutions an audience as well. Museums and department stores continue to share many idioms of display deployed at their conception.
