Interior Design And Decoration - Hardcover

Abercrombie, Stanley; Whiton, Sherrill

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9780132241427: Interior Design And Decoration

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132241420 ISBN 13: 9780132241427

Publisher: Prentice Hall Pr, 2006

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A global and historical tour de force of interior design, this book explores the development of design from prehistoric cave paintings to the present. It looks at art from all parts of the world including India, China, Japan, Egypt, Spain, Italy, North and South America. It looks at how fashion has influenced interior design, the relationship between interior and exterior design and how developments in technologies and materials have influenced design trends. The pages are brought to life with excellent quality illustrations that demonstrate the variety of design styles and techniques presented.

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Addressing interior design and decoration from the ancients to the moderns, this text describes the dominant influences of fashion design and focuses on the close relationship between interior design and the architecture of our times. With the Sixth Edition of "Interior Design and Decoration," Stanley Abercrombie continues the revival of this time-tested and well-respected text-first published in 1937-to make it meet the needs of today's teachers and students. In his second revision of Sherrill Whiton's classic text, Abercrombie presents the full history of interior design-during all periods and throughout all regions-in a manner that facilitates easy comparisons among different times, places, and styles.

About the Author:

Stanley Abercrombie has been editor in chief of the magazines Interiors and Interior Design. The author of 10 books, he has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has served as a director of the Society of Architectural Historians. Sherrill Whiton was the founder and first president of the New York School of Interior Design.

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