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A History of interior design

Pile, John Gura, Judith Laurence King (London, 2013) (eng) English 9781780672915 Unknown 4th ed. INTERIOR DECORATION; Unknown A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully updated fourth edition includes a completely new chapter on twenty-first-century interior design and a heavily revised chapter on the late twentieth century. Interior design is a field that includes construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design. This one-volume history weaves together these topics 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 cathedrals to Koolhaas, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular - the cottages, farmhouses, apartments and city terraces inhabited by ordinary people. The new edition of this bestselling history includes over 50 new images and many previously black and white images updated to colour.
Physical dimension
496 p. 30 cm. ill.
Summary / review / table of contents

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 --
Ancient Egypt --
Geometry and Proportion --
Egyptian Temples and Houses --
Egyptian Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings --
Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome --
Minoan and Mycenaean Cultures --
Knossos --
Mycenae and Tiryns --
Greece --
The Temple --
Secular Interiors --
Insights: The Growth of Athens --
Rome --
Arches, Vaults, and Domes --
Amphitheaters and Baths --
Temples --
Secular Buildings --
Insights: The Cost of Living in Ancient Rome --
Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings --
The Legacy of Rome: Technology --
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque --
Early Christian Design --
Byzantine Design --
Insights: The Ravenna Mosaics --
Ravenna --
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 --
Islamic Influence --
The Mosque --
Moorish Elements in Spanish Romanesque --
The Later Middle Ages --
Elements of Gothic Style --
New Construction Techniques --
Gothic Cathedrals and Churches --
France --
England --
Elsewhere in Europe --
Secular Gothic Buildings.

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