'Designing the Modern Interior' reveals how the design of the inside spaces of our homes and public buildings is shaped by - and shapes - our modern culture.

How to create attractive rooms and spaces suited to any lifestyle. '200 Tips for Modern Interior Design' is a lushly illustrated resource that will inform and inspire home owners and designers. More than 800 full-colour photographs of the world's most beautiful homes showcase modern interior design at its very best. Descriptive captions that highlight important features, such as furniture and individual decorative items, complement the photographs. Line drawings are used to emphasize unique design ideas, and floor plans help define the spaces and provide useful insights for readers. '200 Tips for Modern Interior Design' covers every area of the home and demonstrates how a fresh perspective can yield exciting results. For example, entrances and corridors are often overlooked even though they are the most-used areas in any home. Materials traditionally used in kitchens can be powerful design options in other rooms as well. The book contains tips for the entire home: * Entrances and corridors * Living rooms * Dining rooms * Live-and-work areas * Kitchens * Bedrooms * Bathrooms * All-in-one areas, such as studio apartments * Outside spaces There is also a directory that provides a comprehensive list of design retailers and services -- a significant benefit to any reader. The clean lines and bright, open feel of 200 Tips for Modern Interior Design make it a pleasure to read. The pages of this massive book are filled with inspiration for the creative home owner and designer. AUTHOR: Marta Serrats is a journalist based in Barcelona and a member of the European Council of Interior Architects and the International Federation of Interior Architects. She has edited and developed several books related to architecture, art and design. ILLUSTRATIONS: 800 colour photographs

This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of modern interior designing. The art of designing the interiors of any building is known as interior designing. It includes space planning, site inspections, construction management and execution of the design. It also plays an important role in home design, hotel construction and building urban landscapes. Those with an interest in modern interior designing will find this book helpful. The readers would gain knowledge that would broaden their perspective about this field.

Today’s home is filled with pieces from Pottery Barn, IKEA, and Crate & Barrel, and we pore over glossy catalogs in hopes of achieving the “modern interior.” This idealized aesthetic is the subject of Penny Sparke’s study, as she explores the style in both its absolute form and the diverse decorating approaches seen in the contemporary home. The shift from Victorian to modern style, The Modern Interior reveals, was not as simple and smooth as it is often perceived and the book probes the complicated history behind that transition. Sparke examines the work of such designers as Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Mies van der Rohe, and draws upon design examples from the United States and Europe to reveal that, unlike the designed exteriors of buildings and institutions, the idea of the “interior” has been a largely abstract conception promoted through exhibitions, retail stores, and mass media. A comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the design environments we live and play in, The Modern Interior will be essential reading for all scholars and interested observers of architecture and modern design culture.

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

This is a benchmark book which encourages interior designers to raise their professional status and offers their clients an insight into the complex profession of modern interior design. It demystifies what an interior designer does, and showcases the range of skills that interior designers can bring to a project to help achieve a successful outcome. The book attempts to explain the broad scope of the interior design profession, including: • the wide range of projects and specialisms • the people, roles and relationships • the skills and knowledge that designers need • the benefits of using a designer • the importance of a good client-designer relationship. Case Studies illustrate key points, pinpointing important project types and showcasing designers working in specialist fields and include comments from clients and end-users.

This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary. Drawing on a wealth of mass-produced artefacts, images and environments including sewing machines, cars, televisions, clothes, electronic and branded goods and exhibitions, author Penny Sparke shows how design has helped to shape and reflect our social and cultural development. This introduction to the development of modern (and postmodern) design is ideal for undergraduate students.

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.