This thesis examines the role of material objects, with a particular focus on the domestic interior, in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End tetralogy. It approaches Ford’s novels through the lens of material culture and modernist aesthetics, analysing how furniture and furnishings mediate the relationship between subjective consciousness and historical change in modernist texts. Drawing on Bill Brown’s concept of the ‘thing’ as describing a specific subject/object relation, this thesis foregrounds how material objects in Parade’s End are rendered not as inert entities but as dynamic participants in the narrative’s exploration of history, memory, and perception. Rather than denying the importance of subjective consciousness in Ford’s text, this thesis demonstrates how the rendering of the object world is intricately configured by and through those same subjectivities. The domestic space, in this context, becomes a site for negotiating tensions between interior and exterior, personal and political, past and present. By historicising Ford’s material world, this thesis offers a new perspective on the importance of materiality to early twentieth century literary experimentation. It argues that the domestic objects in Parade’s End function as historically specific material manifestations of cultural, aesthetic, and economic transformations, responding in particular to the encroaching processes of commodification and reification of both history and everyday life in the early twentieth century. Ford’s furnishings reflect and refract the development of industrialisation and the upheavals of the First World War, serving as markers of both public history and private experience. The thesis situates Ford’s tetralogy within a cross-disciplinary framework and approaches the text in dialogue with contemporaneous developments in visual arts, design, and architecture. Through its emphasis on object relations within and beyond the novel itself, the thesis responds to ongoing debates on history and representation both in Ford studies and in studies on modernist and the avant-garde, material culture, and First World War literature more broadly.