A Journey Through Interior Design: 14 Must-Read Books for Interior Design Enthusiasts
Classic Writings on Decoration, Taste, and the Social Life of RoomsBy Mary Harrod Northend, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman, Elsie De Wolfe, Emily Burbank, Grace Wood, Lady Barker, Candace Wheeler, Lucy Abbot Throop, Charles Franklin Warner, Lillian B. Lansdown, Frank Alvah Parsons, Kathleen Clinch Calkins, An Old Hand, Kate Sanborn
Length54h 22m
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A Journey Through Interior Design gathers fourteen influential texts into a capacious history of the furnished room, moving between practical household guidance, architectural principle, decorative arts, and social commentary. Its range extends from prescriptive manuals and illustrated advice to more reflective accounts of taste, comfort, and domestic display. Seminal discussions of proportion, color, furniture, textiles, and garden-adjacent domestic spaces reveal interior design as both an aesthetic discipline and a language of everyday life. The contributors—designers, decorators, writers, educators, and experienced household authorities—represent the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture in which professional interior decoration emerged alongside reformist ideals of craftsmanship, domestic efficiency, and cultivated taste. Their varied perspectives illuminate tensions between historical revivalism and modern convenience, elite patronage and practical instruction, ornament and restraint. Read together, these voices map the development of an Anglo-American design discourse shaped by changing gender roles, consumer practices, and ideas of home. This volume is especially recommended for students of design history, practicing decorators, and readers interested in material culture. It offers a rare opportunity to compare competing vocabularies of beauty and utility within one collection. Its breadth makes it valuable both as an educational introduction and as a stimulating dialogue among distinctive approaches to making interiors meaningful.
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
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Table of contents
1The Decoration of Houses
26A Book of Distinctive Interiors
2INTRODUCTION
27Planning the Living-room
3II
28Designing the Dining-room
4IV
29Decorating and Furnishing the Bedroom
5V
30The Problem of the Bathroom
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6VII
31The Proper Treatment for the Nursery
7X
32Characteristic Staircase Types and Hall Treatments
8XII
33Planning the Kitchen
9XIV
34Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples
10CONCLUSION
35Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples
11Footnote
36CHAPTER I
12The House in Good Taste
37CHAPTER VI
13I
38CHAPTER IX
14IV
39The Art of Interior Decoration
15VII
40THE ART OF INTERIOR DECORATION
16XI
41CHAPTER II
17XIV
42CHAPTER VII
18XVI
43CHAPTER XVIII
19XIX
44CHAPTER XXIV
20Old Time Wall Papers
45CHAPTER XXXIV
21I
46The Art of Home Furnishing and Decoration
22II
47The Art of Home Furnishing and Decoration
23WALL PAPERS IN HISTORIC HOMES
48FOREWORD
24V
49Furnishing the Home of Good Taste
25PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
50Preface
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