General
Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space, Boston, Massachusetts, 1969. A lyrical exploration of spaces in the home, from rooms to drawers.
Brooker, Graeme, and Lois Weinthal (eds), The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, London, 2011.
Calloway, Stephen, Twentieth Century Interior Decoration, London, 1988. Good source particularly for the more expensive, exclusive type of interior.
Clark, Clifford Edward, The American Family Home, 1800–1960, University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Contains useful information on the ordinary dwelling.
Coulson, Anthony J., A Bibliography of Design in Britain, 1851–1970, London, 1979. Lists further sources for research.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Eugene Rochberg-Halton, The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self, Cambridge, New York, reprinted 1999. An excellent introduction to the ways in which interiors reveal clues to their occupants from an anthropological viewpoint.
Deschamps, Madeleine, ‘Domestic Elegance: The French at Home’ in L’Art de Vivre, Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789–1989, London, 1989. General outline of French developments.
Forty, Adrian, Objects of Desire: Design and Society 1750–1980, London, 1986. Stimulating account of the relationship between mass-produced design and society.
Friedman, Joe, Inside London: Discovering London’s Period Interiors, Oxford, 1988. Excellent illustrations and valuable information on surviving interiors which may be visited.
Fuss, Diana, The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them, London, New York, 2004. Investigation of interiority and how it affected the lives and homes of four writers.
Heskett, John, Industrial Design, London, 1984. Particularly useful for German design.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, London, 4th edn, 1977.
McKellar, Susie, and Penny Sparke (eds), Interior Design and Identity, Manchester, New York, 2004. A collection of essays that looks at the interior in relation to gender and social class.
Myzelev, Alla, and John Potvin (eds), Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity, Farnham, 2010.
Open University, History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939, Milton Keynes, 1975.
Pile, John F., Interior Design, New Jersey, 2nd edn, 1995. A useful overview.
Schoeser, Mary, and Celia Rufey, English and American Textiles: From 1871 to the Present, London, 1989. An account of an often neglected aspect of interior design.
Sembach, Klaus-Jurgen, Gabriele Leuthauser and Peter Gossel, Twentieth-Century Furniture Design, Cologne, n.d. Informative survey of mainly German design.
Smith, C. Ray, Interior Design in 20th-Century America: A History, New York, 1987. General guide to recent American interior design.
Sparke, Penny, Furniture, London, 1986. An informative survey of popular and designer furniture.
——, An Introduction to Design & Culture in the Twentieth Century, London, 1986. Introduces the central issues of design history.
Taylor, Mark, and Julieanna Preston (eds), Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader, Chichester, 2006. A useful collection of key writings about interior design.
Trocmé, Suzanne, Influential Interiors: Shaping 20th Century Style, Key Interior Designers, London, 1999. A general introduction to the interior design of the past century that concentrates on the work of the interior decorator.
Whitney Museum of American Art, High Styles, Twentieth-Century American Design, New York, 1986. Excellent source for Cranbrook Academy.
Chapter 1
Reforming Victorian Taste
Adburgham, Alison, Shops and Shopping, London, 1981.
Anscombe, Isabelle, and Charlotte Gere, Arts and Crafts in Britain and America, London, 1978.
Artistic Houses: Being a Series of Interior Views of a Number of the Most Beautiful and Celebrated Homes in the United States with a Description of the Art Treasures Contained Therein, 1st published New York, 1883, reprinted New York, 1971.
Aslin, Elizabeth, The Aesthetic Movement: Prelude to Art Nouveau, London, 1969.
Callen, Anthea, Angel in the Studio: the Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870–1914, London, 1978.
Cooper, Jeremy, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, London, New York, 1987.
Eastlake, C.L., Hints on Household Taste, London, Dover reprint, 1969.
Gere, Charlotte, Nineteenth Century Decoration, London, 1989.
Girouard, Mark, Sweetness and Light, Oxford, 1977.
Grier, Katherine C., Culture and Comfort, People, Patrons and Upholstery, 1830–1930, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Lambourne, Lionel, Utopian Craftsmen: the Arts and Crafts from the Cotswolds to Chicago, London, 1980.
Miller, Michael, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, London, 1981.
Muthesius, Stefan, ‘Why do we buy old furniture? Aspects of the antique in Britain, 1870–1910’, Art History, Oxford, June 1988.
Naylor, Gillian, The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Study of its Sources, Ideals and Influence on Design Theory, London, 1971.
Service, Alastair, Edwardian Interiors: Inside the Homes of the Poor, the Average and the Wealthy, London, 1982.
Thornton, Peter, Authentic Decor. The Domestic Interior 1620–1920, London, 1984.
Chapter 2
The Search for a New Style
Billcliffe, Roger, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Drawings and Interior Designs, London, 1979.
Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, The Glasgow Style 1890–1920, 1984.
Kallir, Jane, Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte, London, 1986.
Kaufmann, E., ‘224 Avenue Louise’, Interiors, February 1957, pp. 88–93.
Latham, Ian, New Free Style, London, 1980.
Levetus, A. S., ‘Otto Prutscher: A Young Viennese Designer of Interiors’, The Studio, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 33–41.
Madsen, S. T., ‘Horta, Works and Style of Victor Horta before 1900’, Architectural Review, 1955, pp. 388–92.
Nuttgens, Patrick, Mackintosh and His Contemporaries, London, 1988.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, ‘George Walton. His Life and Work’, The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, vol. xlvi, 1939.
——, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius, Harmondsworth, 3rd edn, 1975.
——, and J. M. Richards, The Anti-Rationalists, London, 1973.
Russell, Frank (ed.), Art Nouveau Architecture, London, 1979.
Schweiger, Werner J., Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903–1932, London, 1984.
Vergo, Peter, Art in Vienna, 1898–1918, London, 1975.
Chapter 3
The Modern Movement
Banham, Reyner, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, London, 1960.
Besset, Maurice, Le Corbusier: To Live with the Light, London, 1978.
Blaser, Werner, Mies van der Rohe, Furniture and Interiors, London, 1982.
Bullock, Nicholas, ‘First the Kitchen – then the Facade’, Journal of Design History, Oxford, Vol. 1, Nos 3 and 4, 1988.
Corbusier, Le, Towards a New Architecture, London, Architectural Press reprint, 1970.
——,, The City of Tomorrow, London, Architectural Press reprint, 1971.
——, The Decorative Art of Today, London, Architectural Press reprint, 1987.
Faulkner, Thomas (ed.), Design 1900–1960: Studies in Design and Popular Culture of the 20th Century, Newcastle, 1976.
Heynen, Hilde, and Gülsüm Baydar (eds), Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture, London, New York, 2005.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, and Philip Johnson, The International Style, London, New York, 1966.
Overy, Paul (et al.), The Rietveld Schröder House, London, 1988.
Overy, Paul, De Stijl, London, New York, 1991.
Rice, Charles, The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity, London, New York, 2007.
Sparke, Penny, The Modern Interior, London, 2008.
Whitford, Frank, The Bauhaus, London, 1984.
Wilk, Christopher, Marcel Breuer, Furniture and Interiors, New York, 1981.
Willett, John, The New Sobriety 1917–1933: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period, London, 1978.
Wingler, Hans M., Bauhaus, Cambridge, Mass., 1969.
Yorke, F.R.S., and Frederick Gibberd, The Modern Flat, London, 3rd edn, 1950.
Chapter 4
Art Deco and the Moderne
Adam, Peter, Eileen Gray: Architect, Designer: A Biography, London, 1987.
Albrecht, Donald, Designing Dreams, Modern Architecture in the Movies, London, 1987.
Arts Council of Great Britain, Thirties: British Art and Design before the War, London, 1979.
Battersby, Martin, The Decorative Twenties, The Decorative Thirties, 2nd ed. rev. and ed. Philippe Garner, London, 1988.
Bayer, Patricia, Art Deco Sourcebook: A Visual Reference to a Decorative Style 1920–1940, Oxford, 1988.
——, Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s, London, New York, 1990.
Brunhammer, Yvonne, Art Deco Style, New York, 1984.
Camard, Florence, Ruhlmann, Master of Art Deco, London, 1982.
Davies, Karen, At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, New Haven, 1983.
Deslandres, Yvonne, Paul Poiret, London, 1987.
Duncan, Alastair (ed.), Encyclopedia of Art Deco, London, 1988.
Encyclopedie des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes au XXEME Siècle, London, New York, reprinted 1977.
Frankl, Paul T., New Dimensions, New York, 1928.
Gebhard, D., ‘The Moderne in the US’, Architectural Association Quarterly, London, July 1970.
Genaver, Emily, Modern Interiors Today and Tomorrow, New York, 1939.
Grief, M., Depression Modern – The Thirties Style in America, New York, 1975.
Massey, Anne, Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture, Oxford, 2000.
Meikle, Jeffrey L., Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America 1925–1939, Philadelphia, 1979.
Richards, Jeffrey, The Age of the Dream Palace; Cinema and Society in Britain 1930–1939, London, 1984.
Sembach, Klaus-Jurgen, Into the Thirties, London, 1986.
Sharp, Denis, The Picture Palace and Other Buildings for the Movies, London, 1969.
Vellay, Marc, and Kenneth Frampton, Pierre Chareau, London, 1985.
Veronesi, Giulia, Into the Twenties, Style and Design 1909–1929, London, 1968.
Chapter 5
The Emergence of Interior Decoration as a Profession
Anscombe, Isabelle, A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design From 1860 to the Present Day, London, 1984.
Baldwin, Billy, Billy Baldwin Remembers, New York, 1974.
Blake, Vernon, ‘Morris, Munich & Cézanne, The Origin of the Modern French Decorators’, The Architectural Review, April 1929, pp. 207–208.
Brown, Erica, Sixty Years of Interior Design: The World of McMillen, London, 1982.
Cornforth, John, Inspiration of the Past, Middlesex, 1985.
——, The Search for a Style: Country Life and Architecture 1897–1935, London, 1988.
De Wolfe, Elsie, The House in Good Taste, New York, 1913.
Draper, Dorothy, Decorating is Fun! How to be Your Own Decorator, New York, 1939.
Falke, Jacob von, Art in the House: Historical, Critical and Aesthetical Studies on the Decoration and Furnishings of the Dwelling, Boston, 1879.
Fisher, Richard B., Syrie Maugham, London, 1978.
Green, Harvey, The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America, New York, 1983.
Hicks, David, Style and Design, Middlesex, 1987.
Potvin, John, Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain, Manchester, 2014.
Simpson, Colin, The Artful Partners: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, London, 1987.
Smith, Jane S., Elsie de Wolfe, New York, 1982.
Sparke, Penny, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration, New York, 2005.
Throop, Lucy Abbot, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration With Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today, New York, 1912.
Wharton, Edith, and Codman Ogden, Jnr, The Decoration of Houses, 1902, reprinted with additions, New York, 1978.
Wheeler, Candace Thrubber, Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples, New York, 1903.
Chapter 6
Post-war Modernism
Banham, Reyner, New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, London, 1966.
Casson, Hugh (ed.), Inscape, The Design of Interiors, London, 1968.
Duffy, F., and C. Cave, ‘Bürolandschaft, an Appraisal’, Planning Office Space, ed. F. Duffy, C. Cave and J. Worthington, London, 1976.
Eudes, Georges, Modern French Interiors, Paris, 1959.
Garrett, Stephen, ‘Interior Design’, Design, London, August 1959.
ILEA, Utility Furniture and Fashion, London, 1974.
Jackson, Lesley, ‘Contemporary Architecture’ and Interiors of the 1950s, London, 1994.
Jencks, Charles, Modern Movements in Architecture, Middlesex, 1973.
Kaufmann, E., What is Modern Interior Design?, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1953.
McFadden, D. E. (ed.), Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880–1980, New York, 1982.
Pulos, Arthur J., The American Design Adventure, 1940–1975, Cambridge, Mass., 1988.
Till, Jeremy, Architecture Depends, Cambridge, Mass., 2013.
Weller, John, ‘The British Institute of Interior Design’, DIA Yearbook, London, 1976.
Chapter 7
Consumer Culture
Attfield, Judy, Bringing Modernity Home: Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture, Manchester, 2007.
Bayley, Stephen (et al.), ’60s Remembered’, Designers’ Journal, London, May 1988, pp. 51–59.
Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinction, London, 1979.
Brutton, M., ‘Review of Postwar British Design’, Design, London, January 1970.
Conran, Terence, Terence Conran on Design, London, New York, 1996.
Derieux, Mary, and Isabelle Stevenson, The Complete Book of Interior Decorating, New York, 1956.
Favata, Ignazia, Joe Colombo and Italian Design of the Sixties, London, 1988.
Goldstein, Carolyn M., Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th Century America, New York, 1998.
Hebdige, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London, 1979.
Hine, Thomas, Populuxe, New York, 1987.
Horn, Richard, Fifties Style: Then and Now, New York, 1985.
Lee, Martyn. J. (ed), The Consumer Society Reader, Oxford, Malden, Mass., 2000.
Mackenzie, Dorothy, Green Design: Design for the Environment, London, 2nd edn, 1997.
Massey, Anne, The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945–59, Manchester, New York, 1995.
Miller, Daniel, Peter Jackson, Nigel Thrift, Beverley Holbrook and Michael Rowlands, Shopping, Place and Identity, London, New York, 1998.
Phillips, Barty, Conran and the Habitat Story, London, 1984.
Pilatowicz, Graznya, Eco-Interiors: A Guide to Environmentally Conscious Interior Design, New York, 1995.
Renzio, Toni del, ‘Shoes, Hair and Coffee’, ARK, London, Autumn 1957.
Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd, New Haven, 1950.
Shurka, Norma, and Orberto Gili, Underground Interiors: Decorating for Alternate Life Styles, London, 1972.
Sparke, Penny (ed.), Did Britain Make It? British Design in Context, 1946–86, London, 1986.
Vale, Brenda and Robert, Green Architecture: Design for a Sustainable Future, London, Boston, 1991.
Whiteley, Nigel, Pop Design: Modernism to Mod, London, 1987.
Yeang, Ken, Designing with Nature: The Ecological Basis for Architectural Design, London, New York, 1995.
Chapter 8
The Post-modern Era
Banham, Reyner, Contemporary Architecture of Japan, 1958–1984, London, 1985.
Baudrillard, Jean, The System of Objects, London, New York, 1996.
Buchanan, Peter, ‘The Nostalgic Now: Flyte, Fellini and Ferlinghetti’, Architectural Review, London, January 1988.
Davey, Peter (ed.), ‘Interior Spaces’, Architectural Review, January 1989.
‘Deconstruction in Architecture’, Architectural Design, London, Vol. 58, No. 3/4, 1988.
Frow, John, Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural Theory and Postmodernity, Oxford, New York, 1997.
Gardner, Carl, and Julie Sheppard, Consuming Passion: The Rise of Retail Culture, London, 1989.
Hatje, Gerd, and Herbert Weisskamp, Rooms by Design: Houses, Apartments, Studios, Lofts, London, 1989.
Jencks, Charles, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, London, 1977.
——, and George Baird (eds), Meaning in Architecture, London, 1970.
Knobel, Lance, International Interiors, London, 1988.
Kroa, Joan, and Suzanne Slesin, Hi-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home, New York, 1978.
Matrix, Making Space: Women and the Man-made Environment, London, 1984.
McDermott, Catherine, Street Style: British Design in the 80s, Design Council, London, 1987.
Myerson, Jeremy, International Interiors 5, London, 1995.
Raymond, Santa, and Roger Cunliffe, Tomorrow’s Office: Creating Effective and Humane Interiors, London, New York, 1997.
Sarup, Madan, Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World, Edinburgh, Athens, Georgia, 1996, reprinted 1998.
Sparke, Penny, Italian Design, London, 1988.
Thackara, John (ed.), Design After Modernism, London, 1988.
Venturi, Robert, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, New York, 1974.
——, Learning From Las Vegas, Cambridge, Mass., 1979.
Chapter 9
The Sustainability of Interior Design
Brooker, Graeme, and Sally Stone, Rereadings: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings, London, 2004.
Chapman, Jonathan, Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy, London, 2005.
Farmer, John, and Kenneth Richardson (ed.), Green Shift: Changing Attitudes in Architecture to the Natural World, Oxford, 1999.
Fuad-Luke, Alistair, The Eco-Design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office, London, 2nd rev. edn, 2005.
Hagan, Susannah, Taking Shape: A New Contract between Architecture and Nature, Oxford, Boston, 2001.
Pearman, H., and A. Whalley, The Architecture of Eden, London, 2003.
Sanders, Joel, ‘Curtain Wars: Architects, Decorators and the Twentieth-century Domestic Interior’, Harvard Design Magazine, 16, 2002, pp. 1–9.
Chapter 10
Transnational Interiors
Herz, Manuel, African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia, Zurich, 2015.
Huppatz, D.J., Modern Asian Design, London, 2018.
Jacobs, Jane and Cairns, Stephen ‘The Modern Touch: Interior Design and Modernization of Post-independent Singapore’, Environment and Planning A, 40, 2008, pp. 572–95.
Jones, Robin ‘“Thinking” the Domestic Interior in Postcolonial South Asia: The Home of Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka, 1960 to 1998’, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, 3: 3, 203–26.
Kikuchi, Yuko, and Yunah Lee, ‘Transnational Modern Design Histories in East Asia: AnIntroduction, Journal of Design History, 27: 4, 2014, pp. 323–34.
Kirkham, Pat, and Susan Weber (eds), History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000, New Haven and London, 2013.
Lees-Maffei, Grace, and Kjetil Fallan (eds), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalisation, New York and Oxford, 2016.
Patel, Dhara ‘The Evolution of Elite High-Rise Condominiums in India: From the Global to the Neo-colonial?’, Postcolonial Studies, 20: 4, 2017, pp. 456–78.