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The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897.In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture.
Art Deco rejected traditional materials of decoration and interior design, opting instead to use more unusual materials such as chrome, glass, stainless steel, shiny fabrics, mirrors, aluminium, lacquer, inlaid wood, sharkskin, and zebra skin. [34] The use of harder, metallic materials was chosen to celebrate the machine age.
An interior design magazine is a publication that focuses primarily on interior design in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet.. Interior design magazines document the interior of homes, furniture, home accessories, textiles and architecture usually in a highly stylized or staged format.
An expandable table with chairs. This is a list of furniture types.Furniture can be free-standing or built-in to a building. [1] They typically include pieces such as chairs, tables, storage units, and desks.
Interior architecture is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed. It can refer to the initial design and plan used for a building's interior, to that interior's later redesign made to accommodate a changed purpose, or to the significant revision of an original ...
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.
An e-book collection of over 1,000 books on home economics spanning 1850 to 1950, created by Cornell University's Mann Library. Includes several hundred works on the furniture and interior design in this period, itemized in a specific bibliography. American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a fully digitized 2 volume exhibition catalog
Interior Design was founded by Harry V. Anderson in Manhattan in 1932. [2] He was also the publisher and editor of the magazine, which temporarily ceased publication during World War II . [ 2 ] Following the war Anderson and John Hay Whitney of Whitney Communications Company relaunched the magazine. [ 2 ]