A HISTORY OF INTERIOR DESIGN BY JOHN PILE

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A History of Interior Design (3rd edition)

John Pile

Hardback
665 illustrations
480 pages
292 x 220mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 596 1

Published February 2009

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Prehistory to Early Civilizations
2. Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome
3. Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque
4. Islamic and Asian Traditions
5. The Later Middle Ages
6. The Renaissance in Italy
7. Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe
8. Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo in France and Spain
9. Renaissance to Georgian in The Low Countries and England
10. Colonial and Federal America
11. The Regency, Revivals, and Industrial Revolution
12. The Victorian Era
13. The Aesthetic Movements
14. Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession
15. Eclecticism
16. The Emergence of Modernism
17. Art Deco and Industrial Design
18. The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe
19. Modernism in America
20. The Ascendancy of Modernism
21. Contemporary Design
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index

Now in its third edition and fully updated with the most recent examples, A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design all overlap. These topics are woven together 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 the Parthenon to the Pompidou Centre, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular – the cottages, farmhouses, apartments and city terraces inhabited by ordinary people. In this new edition, the evolution of interior design has been made even more accessible through the inclusion of a CD-ROM with an interactive timeline. Incorporating over 100 illustrations, this sets the great interior spaces of the world in the context of the social, political and technological developments of the time.

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, colour, draughtsmanship, office planning and other aspects of interior design.