• Tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space
• Topics are woven together in a fascinating narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture
• The evolution of interior design has been made even more accessible through the inclusion of a CD-ROM with an interactive timeline
• Incorporating over 100 illustrations the book sets the great interior spaces of the world in the context of the social, political and technological developments of the time
• Acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design all overlap

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Prehistory to Early Civilizations
• Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome
• Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque
• Islamic and Asian Traditions
• The Later Middle Ages
• The Renaissance in Italy
• Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe
• Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo in France and Spain
• Renaissance to Georgian in The Low Countries and England
• Colonial and Federal America
• The Regency, Revivals, and Industrial Revolution
• The Victorian Era
• The Aesthetic Movements
• Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession
• Eclecticism
• The Emergence of Modernism
• Art Deco and Industrial Design
• The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe
• Modernism in America
• The Ascendancy of Modernism
• Contemporary Design
• Climate change
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Picture Credits
• Index

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