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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The handbook of interior design / edited by Jo Ann Asher Thompson and Nancy H. Blossom.

            pages cm

    Summary: “The Handbook of Interior Design offers a compilation of current ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design” – Provided by publisher.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    ISBN 978-1-4443-3628-3 (hardback)

  1. Interior architecture.    2. Interior architecture–Philosophy.    3. Interior decoration.    4. Interior decoration–Philosophy.    I. Thompson, Jo Ann Asher, 1948– editor.    II. Blossom, Nancy H., editor.

NA2850.H365 2014

729–dc23

                                                            2014018382

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Cover image: Photo of Tietgenkollegiet, Ørestad Nord, near Copenhagen, Denmark. Interior design by Aggebo & Henriksen. Photo © OLE AKHØJ