Interior Design: Historical

Victorian design : the Industrial Revolution precipitates a crisis in style -- Art nouveau : vanguard of the modern revolution -- Early modern design : triumph of the machine aesthetic -- Late modern design : remaking modernism for the information age.

17th century : the Baroque styles -- 18th century : from Rococo to Neoclassicism -- 19th century: revival and reform -- 20th century : Modernism and after -- 21st century : the future is here.

Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations : Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- Later Middle Ages -- Renaissance of 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 -- Regency, revivals, and Industrial Revolution -- Victorian era -- Aesthetic movements -- Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession -- Eclecticism -- Emergence of modernism -- Art Deco and industrial design -- Spread of early modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- Ascendancy of modernism -- After the international style : the late twentieth century -- Design on a new playing field.

Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames are among the most important designers of the 20th century, and the story of the Eames Office is that of visual and material culture in the post-war, modern period. The World of Charles and Ray Eames charts the history of their inspiring and prolific world and brings together key works and ideas explored at the Eames Office throughout its extraordinary history. This definitive monograph explores the era-defining work of the Eames Office, a laboratory active for over four decades, where the Eameses and their collaborators produced a vast array of pioneering and influential projects from architecture, furniture and product design to film, photography, multi-media installation and exhibitions, as well as new models for arts education.

Stirrings of ambition, 1858-1898 -- Arts and crafts beginnings, 1898-1901 -- Pursuit of harmonious design, 1902-1903 -- "Man of unusual gifts" : Harvey Ellis, 1903-1904 -- Pivotal year, 1904 -- Standard Stickley furniture, 1904-1916 -- Metalwork and textiles, 1902-1916 -- Stickley in New York, 1905-1916 -- Craftsman Farms, 1908-1917 -- Late furniture, bankruptcy, and afterward, 1914-1942.