A History of Interior Design
"In its second edition, A History of Interior Design delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology, and product design all overlap.
These topics are woven together in a narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance palaces on to the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth century and the sleek interiors of modern skyscrapers."
The depth of John Pile's survey of interior design is also increased with the addition of 180 new images throughout the book, including furniture, textiles, lighting, and product design.
ISBN: 0471464341
Format: Hardcover, 464pp
Pub. Date: August 2004
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Laurence King; 3 edition (23 Feb 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1856695964
ISBN-13: 978-1856695961
An Illustrated History Of Interior Decoration
From Pompeii To Art Nouveau
Mario Praz
An indispensable reference source for anyone with an interest in period styles of furniture and decoration, this renowned book comprises a complete survey of domestic interiors portrayed in art from the ancient world to the late 19th century. Available again after some years out of print, it presents a wonderfully rich collection of pictures of a type seldom reproduced anywhere. Around 400 paintings and watercolours from all over Europe, Russia and America record with faithful accuracy rooms of all periods and their contents: the furniture, fabrics, carpets, pictures and wall-coverings. This is a classic text that goes beyond scholarly commentary to present a fascinating cultural history of man in relation to his domestic surroundings.
Hardcover | 394 Pages
Thames & Hudson Ltd | New impression
ISBN10: 0500233586 |ISBN13: 9780500233580
Encyclopedia of Interior Design
Joanna Banham (Editor), Leanda Shrimpton (Editor)
From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay
ISBN:1884964192.
Format: Hardcover, 1450pp
Pub. Date: April 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance
by Jeremy Aynsley, Charlotte Grant
This innovative book examines the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the last five hundred years. Looking at a rich array of depictions of the home, including paintings, novels, television, film, diaries, sketches and photographs, Imagined Interiors deals with both public and private attitudes to the domestic interior and features everything from grand decorative schemes to homely cottages. Published in association with the Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, it takes a completely new and original look at a subject not previously covered in this depth and breadth.# Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: V & A Publications (26 Sep 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1851774920
ISBN-13: 978-1851774920
Interior Design of the 20th Century, Revised Edition (World of Art)
The Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movements, Art Nouveau, the Modern Movement, its rivals Art Deco and the Moderne, American Streamlining and Modern, Pop, Op, Surrealism, Hi-Tech, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism, and many other styles of interior design are charted in this wide-ranging survey. Some movements, like the Modern, were inspired by leading architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, or by groups and schools such as the Bauhaus. Others like Art Deco were the work of decorators such as Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann—glamorous haut-décor, which was then popularized throughout the world by the mass media. Still others, like the ethnic styles, were virtually anonymous, or were consumer-led. Anne Massey introduces all the styles, signposts the changes of direction, and fully documents the emergence of professional "interior decoration" and its evolution into interior design. This revised edition is brought up to date with discussions of green design and the effect of new technology on the home and workplace.
190 illustrations, 39 in color.
Anne Massey writes and lectures widely on the history of design. She is currently Research Professor at Southampton Institute.
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; Revised edition (October, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 0500203466
