The Interior Design Reader

An Essential Resource for Interior Designers, Students, and Design Teachers
The Interior Design Reader is an essential source for the interior designer or design student, incorporating excerpts of key works on design theory from the ancient world to the twenty-first century. By documenting the ideas and philosophies that provided the foundations of design styles and movements through history, this rich book deals with design theory in its application to interior design. The compiled excerpts from writings about design range from classic to contemporary. Such luminaries include:

Vitruvius

Palladio

Ruskin

Morris

Charles Eastlake

Ellen Key

Edith Wharton

Elsie de Wolfe

Walter Gropius

Le Corbusier

Dorothy Draper

Billy Baldwin

William Pahlmann

Angelo Donghia

Mark Hampton

And many other prominent designers, living and deceased.

The Interior Design Reader is a guide into design education, and will help students and practitioners alike form a deeper understanding of the connection between traditional theory and contemporary design practice.
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Judith Gura is a design historian, author, and educator. Her published works include Postmodernism Design Complete, Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York (coauthor), A History of Interior Design (coauthor), Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970–2010, New York Interior Design: 1935–1985, Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture: Designs for the Twenty-First Century, and Guide to Period Styles for Interiors. A graduate of Cornell University, she has a master’s degree in history of design and the decorative arts from the Bard Graduate Center. She is on the faculty of the New York School of Interior Design and has taught at Pratt Institute and FIT. She has curated exhibitions at the New York School of Interior Design and worked on exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the National Museum of Women in Arts. She writes and lecture frequently about Twentieth Century design and decorative arts. She lives in New York, New York.

Sarah Falls is the University Librarian at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has worked as an art librarian in such institutions as the Ohio State University and the New York School of Interior Design. She also serves as a commissioner for the Council of Interior Design Accreditation. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.