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A history of interior design / John Pile.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Laurence King, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 464 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1856694186
  • 9781856694186
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 747.09 22
LOC classification:
  • NK1710 .P55 2004
Other classification:
  • 21.84
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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