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.

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.

Includes a CD-ROM with over 100 illustrations providing an interactive timeline of the history of interior design.

Expanded and enriched with many more examples of landmark contemporary interiors.

Preface

Acknowledgments

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 165

9 Renaissance to Georgian in The Low Countries and England 193

10 Colonial and Federal America

11 The Regency, Revivals, and Industrial Revolution 233

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