A history of interior design / John Pile.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Laurence King, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 464 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1856694186
- 9781856694186
- 747.09 22
- NK1710 .P55 2004
- 21.84
Previous edition: 2000.
Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations: Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance in 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 -- Eclecticism -- The emergence of Modernism -- Art deco and industrial design -- The spread of early Modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- The ascendancy of Modernism -- Contemporary design.
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.