Main entry:

Pile, John F., author.

Title & Author:

A history of interior design / John Pile & Judith Gura.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Publication:

London : Laurence King Publishing, 2013.

Description:

496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations : Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance of Italy -- Baroque and Rococo in Italy and northern Europe -- Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain -- Renaissance to Georgian in the low countries and England -- Colonial and Federal America -- The Regency, revivals, and Industrial Revolution -- The Victorian era -- The aesthetic movements -- Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession -- Eclectcisim -- The emergence of modernism -- Art Deco and industrial design -- The spread of early modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- The ascendancy of modernism -- After the international style : the late twentieth century -- Design on a new playing field.

Summary:

In the first major survey for over a decade on the development of interior design, detailed discussions of famous buildings, from the Parthenon to the Pompidou Centre, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular.

ISBN:

9781780672915 (hbk.)
1780672918 (hbk.)

Subject:

Interior decoration History.
Interior architecture History.
Décoration intérieure Histoire.
Architecture intérieure Histoire.
House and Home.
Interior architecture
Interior decoration

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gura, Judith, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284494
Call No.: NK1710 .P55 2013
Status: Available