A history of interior design / John Pile & Judith Gura.
Material type: TextLondon : Laurence King Publishing, 2013Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781780672915
- 747.09 PI.H 2013 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | The Knowledge Hub Library | Design Media | 747.09 PI.H 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 190570 |
Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-481) and index.
Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations : Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance of 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 -- Eclectcisim -- The emergence of modernism -- Art Deco and industrial design -- The spread of early modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- The ascendancy of modernism -- After the international style : the late twentieth century -- Design on a new playing field.
Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space and acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.
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