A History of Interior DesignDelivers 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. |
Contents
Preface | 10 |
Greece | 31 |
Early Christian Byzantine | 49 |
Islamic and Asian Traditions | 69 |
The Later Middle Ages | 99 |
The Renaissance in Italy | 121 |
Coverings | 143 |
Renaissance Baroque and Rococo | 163 |
The Aesthetic Movements | 267 |
Art Nouveau and the Vienna | 283 |
Eclecticism | 301 |
The Emergence of Modernism | 323 |
Art Deco and Industrial Design | 349 |
The Spread of Early Modernism | 363 |
The Ascendancy of Modernism | 387 |
Contemporary Design | 407 |
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