A history of interior design / John Pile & Judith Gura.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2013.Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmISBN:- 9781780672915 (hbk.)
- 1780672918 (hbk.)
- 747.09 PIL
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully updated fourth edition includes a completely new chapter on twenty-first-century interior design and a heavily revised chapter on the late twentieth century.
Interior design is a field that includes construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design. This one-volume history weaves together these topics in a fascinating narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance palaces, to the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth century and the sleek interiors of modern skyscrapers.
Embedded in a social and political context, detailed discussions of famous buildings, from cathedrals to Koolhaas, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular - the cottages, farmhouses, apartments and city terraces inhabited by ordinary people.
The new edition of this bestselling history includes over 50 new images and many previously black and white images updated to colour.
Previous ed.: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations : Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance of Italy -- Baroque and Rococo in Italy and northern Europe -- Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain -- Renaissance to Georgian in the low countries and England -- Colonial and Federal America -- The Regency, revivals, and Industrial Revolution -- The Victorian era -- The aesthetic movements -- Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession -- Eclectcisim -- The emergence of modernism -- Art Deco and industrial design -- The spread of early modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- The ascendancy of modernism -- After the international style : the late twentieth century -- Design on a new playing field
In the first major survey for over a decade on the development of interior design, detailed discussions of famous buildings, from the Parthenon to the Pompidou Centre, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular.