Innovations in Interior Design and Decoration: 11 Must-Reads
Foundational Writings on Modern Home Design, Decoration, Taste, and Domestic LifeBy Mary Harrod Northend, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman, Elsie De Wolfe, Emily Burbank, Grace Wood, Lady Barker, Candace Wheeler, Lucy Abbot Throop, Charles Franklin Warner, Frank Alvah Parsons, Kathleen Clinch Calkins, Kate Sanborn
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Innovations in Interior Design and Decoration: 11 Must-Reads surveys the formation of modern domestic taste through architectural criticism, practical decorating manuals, historical study, and essays on household culture. Its selections move between the disciplined classicism of the late nineteenth century and the increasingly professional, consumer-conscious design culture of the early twentieth, addressing proportion, furniture, color, textiles, gardens, and the social meaning of the home. Foundational arguments for architectural coherence stand beside lucid advice on livable rooms and historically informed accounts of ornament. The contributors comprise influential American and British writers, decorators, architects, educators, and cultural commentators, including Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman, Elsie De Wolfe, Candace Wheeler, and Frank Alvah Parsons. Their varied careers connect the volume to the Arts and Crafts movement, Beaux-Arts classicism, women's expanding authority in the decorative professions, and the institutionalization of design education. Together, these voices reveal interior decoration as more than embellishment: it is a field shaped by gender, class, craftsmanship, commerce, and changing ideals of modern life. This collection is especially valuable for students of design history, material culture, architecture, and literary nonfiction, as well as readers seeking perceptive guidance on interiors. By placing divergent prescriptions and sensibilities in conversation, it invites readers to assess enduring debates over beauty, utility, authenticity, and comfort across a remarkably rich single volume.
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Length50 hrs 1 min
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Decoration of Houses
26Remodeled Farmhouses
2INTRODUCTION
27FOR MANY KINDNESSES
3II
28CHAPTER II
4IV
29CHAPTER V
5V
30CHAPTER VIII
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6VII
31CHAPTER XI
7X
32CHAPTER XIV
8XII
33CHAPTER XVIII
9XIV
34CHAPTER XXI
10CONCLUSION
35The House in Good Taste
11Footnote
36I
12Old Time Wall Papers
37IV
13I
38VII
14II
39XI
15WALL PAPERS IN HISTORIC HOMES
40XIV
16V
41XVI
17PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
42XIX
18A Book of Distinctive Interiors
43The Art of Interior Decoration
19Planning the Living-room
44THE ART OF INTERIOR DECORATION
20Designing the Dining-room
45CHAPTER II
21Decorating and Furnishing the Bedroom
46CHAPTER VII
22The Problem of the Bathroom
47CHAPTER XVIII
23The Proper Treatment for the Nursery
48CHAPTER XXIV
24Characteristic Staircase Types and Hall Treatments
49CHAPTER XXXIV
25Planning the Kitchen
50Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples
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