Moving interiors: disassembling, reassembling, re-installing
Massey, Anne (2025) Moving interiors: disassembling, reassembling, re-installing. In: Upkeep: maintenance and repair in adaptive interiors. Bloomsbury, New York and London. (Submitted)
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This chapter investigates the practice of the adaptive interior from the unusual perspective of the interiors from one ocean liner, the RMS Olympic, which were physically relocated and re-installed at a different location. There is a twin focus on moving interiors both in terms of relocation and emotional impact. These ship interiors are moving interiors in the sense that they were disassembled, transported from one location to another, then reassembled and re-installed in a different setting. They are also moving interiors because of their history, they are emotionally charged by association, by nostalgia. Using archival material and a phenomenological visit to one of the interiors in question, the chapter calls for the inclusion of recycled interiors in the literature around adaptive interiors. It also makes the case for the for care when re-installing used interiors, to pay heed to the heritage of the original setting. The chapter explores the unexpected features which can emerge when moving interiors, the walls which can reveal secrets and bear witness to voices from the past.
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