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WOW. it was purchased to use as a course resource (on 20th century American consumer culture), but am now tempted to buy my OWN copy. beautifully organized and articulated. thoughtful and well-rounded discussion of the variation and evolution of interior design.
It's a very interesting book, it offers a vew over design from ancient times to ower days. The book is recomended especialy for professional designers. We can follow the developement of design over time.
I really do enjoy the book except that on some important topics in the class I am taking with this book there is little information. The pictures also aid in examples and are for the msot part the best picture examples that any book could offer. Nonetheless on the topics it greatly expands upon the book shows impressive and accurate knowledge.
If you're bored with historical overviews of a discipline, you're in for a surprise. Pile brings interior design to life with vibrant examples, wonderful background detail, and the kind of information that will help you understand this arena with much more depth.
Apart from the high quality paper and excellent images, John Pile has a writing style that gets his point across very clearly. I study interior design and, without John Pile's books, this wide-ranging subject would have been far more difficult. History of Interior Design is great. Studying the subject "history of interior design" would have been such a struggle for me without having this book at my side. That makes for rapid reading and faster absorption of information. I just couldn't find all I needed on the internet.
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