A history of interior design (2nd ed)

Now in its second edition. 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 narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and palaces on to the grand civic speces of the nineteenth century and the modern skyscrapers.

Embedded in a social and political context, detailed discussions of famous buildings, from the Parthenon to the Pompidou Centre, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic - the cottages, farmhouses, apartments and city terraces inhabited by ordinary people.

Primary source quotations are used to provide contemporary perspectives on a wide variety of interior settings.

New to the second edition is a chapter looking at the interior design history of Asian and Islamic tradtions.

Fresh material has also been added on Pre-Columbian design history.

There are 180 new images throughout the book. Including furniture, , lighting and product design Finally, this