A History of Interior Design
by John Pile, Judith Gura, Drew Plunkett
5th Edition
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons P&T
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781119638803 |
| eText ISBN | 9781119638865 |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons P&T |
| Publishing Year | 2024 |
| Edition | 5th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 496 |
The textbook A History of Interior Design, 5th Edition provides students and professionals with an overview of global space planning and decorative arts, tracing 6,000 years of domestic and public space history.
The thematic narrative begins with prehistoric structures and classical antiquity in Greece and Rome. It progresses through Islamic and Asian design traditions, medieval architecture, and European Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo styles. Subsequent sections analyze colonial, federal, and Regency spaces alongside the impact of the Industrial Revolution, Victorian era aesthetics, and Aesthetic Movements.
Modern coverage explores Art Nouveau, Art Deco, European and American Modernism, and Postmodernism. To deepen historical context, this fifth edition includes expanded content on the contributions of women designers and architects across these stylistic eras, offering a structured foundation for academic study.
Table of Contents
Chapter Introduction: Designing Interiors
Chapter 1: Prehistory to Early Civilizations
- • Prehistoric Interiors
- • Archeological Evidence
- • The First Shelters
- • Dolmens and Barrows
- • Evidence from Tribal Cultures
- • Pattern and Design
- • The First Permanent Settlements
- • Mesopotamia: Sumeria
- • Pre-Columbian America
- • North America
- • Central America
- • South America
- • Ancient Egypt
- • Geometry and Proportion
- • Egyptian Temples and Houses
- • Egyptian Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings
Chapter 2: Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome
- • Minoan and Mycenaean Cultures
- • Knossos
- • Mycenae and Tiryns
- • Greece
- • The Temple
- • insights The Growth of Athens
- • Secular Interiors
- • Rome
- • Arches, Vaults, and Domes
- • Amphitheaters and Baths
- • Temples
- • insights The Cost of Living in Ancient Rome
- • Secular Buildings
- • Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings
- • The Legacy of Rome: Technology
Chapter 3: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque
- • Early Christian Design
- • Byzantine Design
- • Ravenna
- • insights The Ravenna Mosaics
- • Constantinople
- • Hagia Sophia
- • Secular Buildings
- • Early Medieval: The “Dark Ages”
- • The Romanesque Style
- • Churches
- • Germany
- • Italy
- • France
- • England
- • Scandinavia
- • Fortresses and Castles
- • Monasteries and Abbeys
- • insights The Abbey at Cluny
- • Houses
- • Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings
- • Spanish Romanesque
Chapter 4: Islamic and Asian Traditions
- • Islamic Influence
- • Mosques and Palaces
- • Islamic Influence in Spain
- • The Mosque in Spain
- • Islamic Furnishings
- • India and Pakistan
- • Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain Architecture
- • Hindu Religious and Secular Buildings
- • Jain Architecture
- • Northern and Southern Styles of Temple
- • Islamic Influence in India
- • insights Bernier’s Account of the Taj Mahal
- • Indian Furnishings
- • Western Influence
- • Cambodia
- • Thailand
- • Indonesia
- • China
- • Chinese Architecture
- • Chinese Furnishings
- • Korea
- • Japan
- • Japanese Furnishings
Chapter 5: The Later Middle Ages
- • Elements of Gothic Style
- • New Construction Techniques
- • Gothic Cathedrals and Churches
- • France
- • England
- • Elsewhere in Europe
- • Secular Gothic Buildings
- • insights Construction Work in a Medieval Building
- • Castles and Palaces
- • Medieval Houses
- • Innovations in Domestic Comfort
Chapter 6: The Renaissance in Italy
- • The Rise of Humanism
- • Renaissance Interest in History
- • Elements of Renaissance Style
- • The Early Renaissance
- • Brunelleschi
- • Michelozzo
- • Alberti
- • The High Renaissance
- • Bramante
- • Palaces
- • insights Vasari’s Account of the Farnese Palace
- • The Late Renaissance and Mannerism
- • Michelangelo
- • Romano
- • Palladio
- • Vignola
- • Interior Furnishings
- • Furniture
- • Coverings
Chapter 7: Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe
- • Elements of Baroque Style
- • The Baroque in Italy
- • Rome
- • Bernini
- • Borromini
- • Venice
- • Longhena
- • Turin
- • Guarini
- • Juvarra
- • Baroque in Northern Europe
- • Austria
- • Switzerland
- • Germany
- • Furniture and Other Interior Features
Chapter 8: Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain
- • France
- • Early Renaissance
- • High Renaissance
- • Baroque
- • insights Louis XIV and Versailles
- • Versailles
- • Louvre
- • Baroque Churches
- • Furniture and Furnishings
- • Regency to Rococo
- • Paris Hôtels Particuliers
- • The Petit Trianon
- • Regency and Rococo Furniture
- • Rococo to Neoclassicism
- • The Empire Style
- • insights Charles Percier and Pierre François-Léonard Fontaine: The Empire Style
- • Provincial Style
- • Spain
- • Plateresco
- • Desornamentado
- • Churrigueresco
- • Furniture and Other Interior Features
Chapter 9: Renaissance to Georgian in the Low Countries and England
- • Low Countries
- • Civic Buildings
- • Private Dwellings
- • England
- • Tudor
- • Elizabethan
- • Elizabethan Furniture
- • Jacobean
- • Jones
- • Jacobean Interior Furnishings
- • From Carolean to William and Mary
- • Wren
- • Carolean and William and Mary Interior Furnishings
- • Queen Anne
- • Queen Anne Furniture
- • Georgian
- • Robert and James Adam
- • insights Robert Adam and Syon House
- • Georgian Town Houses
- • Other Building Types
- • Georgian Furniture and Interior Furnishings
Chapter 10: Colonial and Federal America
- • Colonial Styles in Latin America
- • Colonial Styles in North America
- • Early Colonial Houses
- • Early Colonial Interior Furnishings
- • Churches and Meeting Houses
- • American Georgian
- • American Georgian Houses
- • American Georgian and Queen Anne Furniture
- • Late Colonial Public Buildings
- • Federal Styles
- • Jefferson
- • Bulfinch
- • Thornton and Latrobe
- • Furniture of the Federal Period
- • Other Furnishings of the Federal Period
Chapter 11: The Regency, Greek Revival, and the Industrial Revolution
- • Regency
- • Nash
- • Soane
- • Regency Furniture
- • Greek Revival
- • Germany
- • England
- • United States
- • The Industrial Revolution
- • Early Industrialization and Inventions
- • Industry and Interiors
Chapter 12: The Victorian Era
- • Victorian Style
- • Gothic Revival in Britain
- • Shopping
- • A Great Exhibition
- • Aristocrats and Plutocrats
- • Other British Revivalist Styles
- • United States: Victorian Variations
- • Gothic Revival
- • American Homes
- • A Centennial Exhibition
- • Later American Indigenous Styles
- • Shingle
- • Adirondack
- • Shaker
- • insights The Shaker Philosophy
Chapter 13: The Aesthetic Movements
- • Britain: Arts and Crafts Movement
- • Arbiters of Taste and Virtue
- • Morris
- • Ashbee
- • Voysey
- • Scott
- • Asian Influences
- • Arts and Crafts in the United States
- • The Craftsman Movement
- • Japanese Influences
- • Emergence of Women Designers
- • United States
- • Wheeler
- • Wharton
- • Britain
- • Agnes and Rhoda Garrett
Chapter 14: Eclecticism and a New World
- • Ecole des Beaux-Arts
- • United States
- • Building High
- • Office Interiors
- • Apartments and Hotels
- • Public Buildings
- • Furniture and Fittings in Excess
- • Furnishing the Home
- • Shopping
- • High Style
- • Ocean Liners
- • Movie Theaters
- • Europe
Chapter 15: Art Nouveau and the Viennese Secession
- • Roots and Characteristics of Art Nouveau
- • Britain
- • Mackintosh
- • France
- • Guimard
- • School of Nancy
- • Other French Designers
- • Belgium
- • Horta
- • Van de Velde
- • Austria: The Vienna Secession
- • Olbrich
- • Wagner
- • Hoffmann
- • Moser
- • Germany: Jugendstil
- • Riemerschmid
- • Endell
- • Scandinavia and the Baltic
- • Spain
- • Gaudí
- • United States
- • Tiffany
- • Sullivan
Chapter 16: The Emergence of Modernism
- • Sullivan
- • Wright
- • Change in Europe
- • The Radicals
- • Duchamp
- • Loos
- • War and Revolution
- • Le Corbusier
- • De Stijl
- • Van Doesburg
- • Rietveld
Chapter 17: Modernism
- • Pioneers of Modernism
- • Le Corbusier and His Five Rules
- • Early Work
- • insights Le Corbusier and Color
- • Perriand
- • Gropius and the Bauhaus
- • Mies van der Rohe
- • Mies and Johnson
- • Reich
- • Skeptics
Chapter 18: Art Deco
- • France
- • Mallet-Stevens
- • Gray
- • insights Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, and E1027
- • Górska
- • Frank
- • Chareau
- • Ocean Liners
- • United States
- • Designers from Europe
- • Architecture
- • Britain
- • Scandinavia
- • Sweden
- • Denmark
- • An Alternative Modernity
- • De Wolfe
- • Wood
- • Draper
- • Sister Parish
- • Elkins
- • Joel
- • Maugham
- • Dorn
- • Lancaster
Chapter 19: Modernist Design in Europe
- • Britain
- • Italy
- • Scandinavia
- • Alvar and Aino Aalto
- • Switzerland
- • Furniture Design
Chapter 20: Modernist Design in the United States
- • Architects and Designers
- • Wright
- • insights The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- • Gill
- • Schindler
- • Neutra
- • Lescaze
- • International Style
- • Continuity and Modernity
- • Robsjohn-Gibbings
- • Wormley
- • Residential and Industrial Design
- • Streamline
- • A New Breed of Designer
- • Loewy
- • Teague
- • Bel Geddes
- • Dreyfuss
- • Rohde
- • Russel and Mary Wright
- • Liebes
- • Greta and Walter von Nessen
- • The Streamlined Home
- • Eating Out
Chapter 21: The Post-War World 1945–80
- • United States
- • Residential Design
- • An Ideal Home
- • Furnishings
- • insights Modernism and Social Environments
- • Europe
- • Britain
- • Festival of Britain
- • The Home Front
- • Italy
- • Denmark
- • The 1960s: Britain and a Shift in Soft Power
- • Retail
- • The Modern Home
- • Domestic Experiments
- • insights Interior Design vs. Architecture
- • Hospitality
- • Office Design
Chapter 22: Postmodernism
- • United States
- • Venturi and Others
- • Graves
- • Austria
- • Hollein
- • Britain
- • Connor
- • Powell-Tuck
- • Kelly
- • Jiricna
- • Pawson
- • Coates
- • insights Finding an Audience
- • Collins
- • France
- • Putnam
- • Starck
- • Italy
- • Sottsass and the Memphis Group
- • Mendini
- • Branzi
- • Aulenti
- • Spain
Chapter 23: Computers, Conservation, and Moral Concerns
- • Digitality
- • Sustainability
- • Retail
- • Hospitality
- • Workplace
- • Residential
- • Healthcare
- • Education
- • Furniture and Furnishings
- • The Future
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