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

By: Pile, John F [author.].
Contributor(s): Gura, Judith [author.].
Publisher: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2013Edition: Fourth edition.Description: 496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780672915 (hbk.); 1780672918 (hbk.).Subject(s): Interior decoration -- History | Interior architecture -- History | Interior architecture | Interior decorationGenre/Form: History.
Contents:
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.
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Reference Books Reference Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Reference Reference Books NK 1710 .P55 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 5151328
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Non-fiction Main Collection NK 1710 .P55 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 5151346

Previous ed.: 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

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.

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