| Description |
xxii, 577 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Interior design problem assignments -- The components and materials for interiors -- Design presentation -- Understanding studio criticism -- Three perceptions of interior space -- Conceptual design thinking -- The principles of aesthetic composition -- Interviews with practicing designers -- Before 1900: precursors of the twentieth-century interior -- 1900-1910: pioneers of twentieth-century interior design -- 1910-1920: the birth of the modern movement -- 1920-1930: the first generation -- 1930-1940: modernism comes to America -- 1940-1950: the second generation -- 1950-1960: the triumph of modernism in America -- 1960-1970: the third generation -- 1970-1980: the fourth generation -- 1980 to the present: today and its challenges. |
| Subject |
Interior decoration -- History -- 20th century.
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Interior decoration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Indexed Term |
American interior design, 1900-1985 |
| Added Author |
Smith, C. Ray.
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| Added Title |
Interior design in the twentieth century. |
| ISBN |
0060465840 |
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9780060465841 |
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