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A revision of this major ground-breaking survey text on interior design, A History of Interior Design delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, 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 onto the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth century and the sleek interiors of modern sky-scrapers.
Detailed discussions of famous buildings, from the Parthenon to the Pompidou Center, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular — the cottages, farmhouses, apartments, and city terraces inhabited by ordinary people. A basic understanding of this history is important for students and professional designers who look to the past for inspiration. This comprehensive resource presents the history of interior design within the context of sociology, politics, economics, geography, and the other arts.
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