Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-289) and index.

Part I. Interior decoration: introduction : 1.1. Identity and language : Building study: Court Essington / David Archer Architects ; The domestic interior and the construction of self: the new York homes of Elsie de Wolfe / Penny Sparke ; Dream homes and DIY: TV, new media and the domestic makeover / Viviana Narotzky ; Curtain wars: architects, decorators, and the 20th-century domestic interior / Joel Sanders ; Figures of living / Manolo de Giorgi and Marco Romanelli -- The bounds of privacy: boundary and domain in Japanese culture / Shigeru Uchida -- 1.2. The process of decoration : Building study: St. Mary of Furness / E.W. Pugin, restored by Francis Roberts Architects ; The system of objects / Jean Baudrillard ; History, craft, invention / George Ranalli ; The exercise of detailing / Vittorio Gregotti ; Spolia: inappropriate appropriations / Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone -- 1.3. History and philosophy : Building study: Teatro Olimpico / Palladio ; Sir John Soane / Mario Praz ; The historical tradition / Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman ; Comfort and well-being / Witold Rybczynsk -- Part 2. Interior design : introduction : 2.1. Histories and identity : Building study: St. Martin's Lane Hotel / Philippe Starck ; The emergence of interior decoration as a profession / Anne Massey ; Rethinking histories of the interior / Charles Rice ; Inscape / Hugh Casson ; Towards a new agenda / Fred Scott ; Towards a new equilibrium / Patrick Hannay and Oliver Lewis -- 2.2. Organisation : Building study: Apartment / George Ranalli ; Towards a new aesthetic / Drew Plunkett ; Inside/outside / Robert Venturi ; Structures of interior design / Jean Baudrillard ; Figures, doors, passages / Robin Evans ; In praise of shadows / Jun'ichirō Tanizaki -- 2.3. Function : Building study: Haçienda Nightclub / Ben Kelly Design ; Off-the-peg: the bespoke interiors of Ben Kelly / Graeme Brook and Sally Stone ; Old and new office cultures / Frank Duffy ; Exhibition design as metaphor of a new modernity / Andrea Branzi ; The hotel lobby / Siegfried Kracauer ; Pattern of town houses / Johan Van De Beek -- Part 3. Interior architecture: introduction : 3.1. The understanding of context : Building study: Church of Christ Scientist / OMI Architects ; Memory / Sebastien Marot ; Interior space / Denise Scott Brown / Being and circumstance / Robert Irwin ; Interior / Beatriz Colomina -- 3.2. The process of remodelling : Building study: Castelvecchio Museum / Carlo Scarpa ; Early Christian architecture: adaptive re-use / Dora Crouch ; Re-arch / Crimson ; Old buildings as palimpsest: towards a theory of remodeling / Rodolfo Machado ; From contrast to analogy: developments in the concept of architectural intervention / Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubió ; Rereadings / Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone ; Adaptations: architecture as a palimpsest / Philippe Robert ; On altering architecture: some resolutions / Fred Scott -- 3.3. Approaches to conservation : Building study: Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy / Julian Harrap Architects and Foster Associates ; The lamp of memory / John Ruskin ; The SPAB manifesto ; The Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments ; The Venice Charter ; Architecture as reparation: notes on restoration in architecture / Alberto Grimoldi ; The field of study.