Main entry:

Smith, C. Ray.

Title & Author:

Interior design in 20th-century America : a history / C. Ray Smith.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, ©1987.

Description:

xi, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Before 1900: Precursors of the twentieth-century interior : The Industrial Revolution ; What led up to all this? ; New materials for interiors ; The modern interior ; Design education -- 1900-1910: Pioneers of twentieth-century interior design : Elsie de Wolfe: the birth of professional decorating -- Frank Lloyd Wright: pioneer of modern interiors ; The Arts and Crafts Movement ; European directions ; Organic = integrated -- 1910-1920: The birth of the modern movement : American design: a dichotomy ; European design: the case for and against the machine ; The impact of World War I -- 1920-1930: The first generation : Art Deco from France ; The Bauhaus: 1919-1933 ; Art Moderne ; Design in America -- 1930-1940: Modernism comes to America : New materials ; The streamline style ; Beyond streamlining: interior and interior design ; The spread of modernism in America ; the promulgation of the International style ; The resurgence of Frank Lloyd Wright ; Design in France ; Design in England ; American decorating ; Europe and America: the threat of war -- 1940-1950: The second generation : Alexander Girard ; The Scandinavian influence ; After World War II ; The new modern furniture manufacturers ; Harvard under Gropius ; The spread of the Miesian idiom ; The Bay Region style ; "Traditional" versus "contemporary" ; Design education ; Influential designers ; "Traditional modern" and " contemporary" ; The Italian influence ; The end of an era and a new beginning -- 1950-1960: The triumph of modernism in America ; Technological advances in interior design ; The International style: triumph of the modern crusade ; The "good design" shows ; The new space planners ; European influences ; The growth of American modern furniture ; Residential and technical advances ; Alexander Girard ; Individualist designers ; Other influential designers ; The resistance to modernism ; The residential designers ; The transitional-contemporary designers ; Professional organizations ; Renewal versus heritage ; A new free-form expressionism ; European parallels ; The decade of the parabola ; The interiors of Louis Kahn ; The filigree screen ; The new color richness ; A new elegance in furniture ; Frank Lloyd Wright -- 1960-1970: The third generation : The architectural establishment ; Questioning the modern movement ; Minimalism and elegance ; The residential designers ; Design: expansion and revolution ; A diversity of directions ; Office landscape -- 1970-1980: The fourth generation : Design pluralism ; Restoration and recycling ; Hotel design ; Store design and display ; Product design -- Corporate design ; the New York five ; The post-modernists ; The Italian influence ; The late modernists ; The minimalists ; The residential designers ; Licensing for interior designers -- 1980 to the present: today and its challenges : Directions at mid-decade ; Problems of the profession ; Conclusion.

Summary:

"Interior Design in 20th-Century America is the first book to be concerned exclusively with interior design in this century. The opening chapter outlines the foundations of twentieth-century interior design--as received from the legacies of the past. The main body of the book relates the history of interior design from 1900 to the 1980s--decade by decade." -- Book Preface.

ISBN:

0060463228 (pbk.)
9780060463229 (pbk.)

Subject:

Interior decoration United States History 20th century.
Décoration intérieure États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Interior decoration.
Innenarchitektur
Geschichte (1900-1984)
United States.
USA
American interior design, 1900-1985

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Interior design in twentieth-century America

Holdings:

Location: Library main 22476
Call No.: ID:87-B9395
Status: Available