A History of Interior Design

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.Preface Acknowledgements 1. Prehistory to Early Civilisations 2. Classical Civilisations: Greece and Rome 3. Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque 4. Islamic and Asian Traditions 5. The Later Middle Ages 6. The Renaissance in Italy 7. Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe 8. Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain 9. Renaissance to Georgian in the Low Countries and England 10. Colonial and Federal America 11. The Regency, Revivals, and Industrial Revolution 12. The Victorian Era 13. The Aesthetic Movements 14. Art Nouveau 15. Eclecticism 16. The Emergence of Modernism 17. Art Deco and Industrial Design 18. The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe 19. Modernism in America 20. The Ascendancy of Modernism Glossary Bibliography Picture Credits Index