History of Interior Design - Hardcover

Pile, John; Gura, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118403517 ISBN 13: 9781118403518

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

This classic reference presents the history of interior design from prehistory to the present. Exploring a broad range of design styles and movements, this revised and expanded edition includes coverage of non–Western design and vernacular interior architecture and features 665 photographs and drawings (color and black–and–white). The companion image bank includes an interactive presentation of periods and styles, incorporating more than 100 illustrations. A History of Interior Design is an essential resource for practicing and aspiring professionals in interior design, art history, and architecture, and general readers interested in design and the decorative arts.

About this title

About the Author:

John Pile was Professor of Design at the renowned Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, for most of his teaching career. He is the author of twelve books on furniture, color draughtsmanship, office planning, and other aspects of interior design.

Judith Gura is a professor of design history and theory, directing the design history program at the New York School of Interior Design. She is the author of critically praised books on interior design, Scandinavian furniture, and furniture styles.

From the Inside Flap:

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 fifty new images and many previously black and white images updated to color.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118403517
• ISBN 13: 9781118403518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 496