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History of Interior Design, Second Edition, covers the history of architecture, interiors, and furniture globally, from ancient times through the late twentieth century. Each chapter gives you background information about the social and cultural context and technical innovations of the period and place, and illustrates their impact on interior design motifs. The book highlights cross-cultural influences of styles and designs, showing you how interior design is a continuing exchange of ideas. This second edition expands global coverage to Latin American, African, and Asian cultures and integrates green design into historic developments. You'll learn to use your understanding of the past to design for the present and find inspiration for your future designs. New to this Edition ~ Expanded discussion and new chronological organization of Latin American, African, and Asian cultures. ~ New chapter on Islamic design. ~ Additional information on technological developments in materials, processes, and structural design. ~ Integration of green design and its historic development. ~ Increased emphasis on modern design. History of Interior Design STUDIO ~ Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips ~ Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this book, please refer to the book + STUDIO access card bundle ISBN (9781501321962).

At last, in a single volume, here is a sweeping, historical survey of interior design, decoration, and furniture. Starting around 3200 B.C., at the height of artistic development in ancient Egypt, Professor Blakemore takes us on a beautifully written and illustrated journey across five millennia of stylistic periods. Unique in its comprehensive approach, this book is a much needed addition to the existing literature on the history of interior design. 100 color illus., plus line drawings and halftones.

A valuable resource for design professionals and historians, this book chronicles the evolution of modern interior design in the United States throughout the 1930s. With more than 200 images and detailed descriptions, design historian Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than eighty interiors by forty-five designers, including Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Percival Goodman, Frederick Kiesler, William Lescaze, William Muschenheim Tommi Parzinger, Gilbert Rohde, Eugene Schoen, Kem Weber, set designers Cedric Gibbons and Joseph Urban, and industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Russel Wright. The book also highlights the work of women modernists who are practically unknown today, including Virginia Conner, Freda Diamond, Eleanor Le Maire, and Madame Majeska. Interiors cover the economic spectrum, from those created for wealthy patrons who embraced the modernist aesthetic, including Walter Annenberg, George Vanderbilt III, William Paley, and Abby Rockefeller Milton, to those designed with affordability in mind, including private commissions, as well as furniture and model rooms for manufacturers, design associations, and museum exhibitions. The book also profiles in detail entire model homes that highlighted new concepts in design and construction, such as Norman Bel Geddes¿ House of Tomorrow for Ladies¿ Home Journal, Macy¿s ¿Forward House,¿ Frederick Kiesler¿s ¿Space House¿ for the Modernage showroom, Eleanor Le Maire¿s ¿House of Planes¿ for Abraham & Straus, and the model houses at the 1933 and 1939 world¿s fairs held in Chicago and New York, respectively. The trajectory of American modern design during the 1930s was not linear. In rejecting the revivalism that had defined American design during the nineteenth century, the designers covered in this book forged something new-an American movement defined by simplicity, practicality, and comfort that embraced experimentation and variation in materials and style. An important survey of the early development of modern interiors in America, year by year.

Beautiful design improves the quality of our lives and photographer, Gianni Franchellucci has captured the best in international interior design with the all new second edition of, INTERIORS: Europe & the Americas II. This book is the ultimate global celebration of over 30 interior design and architect firms. Gianni, is also the author of Interiors, providing interesting and in- depth text about each project. The book showcases the details of rooms, such as, layered textured and patterns, collected pieces and designer vignettes and providing gorgeous photography for the reader. This book presents never-before-published spaces by these design firms. Successful interior design is built from layer upon layer of color, texture, pattern embellishment, and more. Prominent photographer and author Gianni Franchellucci provides an incisive exploration of the essential aspects of interior design. INTERIORS: Europe & the Americas II features over 400 color photographs in 272 pages showcasing 32 projects. This is a book to be treasure and enjoyed by readers with a passion for interior design. The locations include: New York, Boston, Washington DC, Palm Springs, Palm Beach, Moscow, London, Paris, Rome, Amagansett (Long Island), San Francisco and many more. Successful interior design is built from layer upon layer of color, texture, pattern, embellishment, and more. Prominent photographer and author Gianni Franchellucci provides an incisive exploration of the essential aspects of interior design. Interiors: Europe & the Americas II features over 400 color photographs in 272 pages showcasing 32 projects. This is a book to be treasured and enjoyed by readers with a passion for interior design. The locations include: New York, Boston, Washington DC, Palm Springs, Palm Beach, Moscow, London, Paris, Rome, Amagansett (Long Island), San Francisco and many more. Partial list of design firms: Lucinda Loya Interiors Monica Ballesio Interiors Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design Doble Oficio Arquitectos Roberto Barbero / Jose Maia Rodriguez Lopez Studio Riviello Architetti Amathea Ltd. Maurizio Pellizzoni Adam Cassino Design Studio Todd Raymond Katerina Koroleva Interiors

From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.