1. The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator: popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior. 2. The inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name. 3. Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes. 4. The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs. 5. Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic. Epilogue: the presentness of historicism: the Musée Centennal du Mobilier and the legacy of proto-interior designers. (Studies in Design and Material Culture)