Product Description
The second edition of The Fairchild Dictionary of Interior Design presents design terminology
from both historical and contemporary viewpoints from antiquity to the
twenty-first century. Furniture and its components, lighting principles and fixtures,
materials, fabrics, construction devices, accessories, woods, styles, and periods all
contribute to the language of design. Design is the continuous reuse and revitalization
of forms to create meaning for each generation. There is no design that cannot
find its way back in history. By integrating the historical evolution of design into the
very definition of design terms, The Fairchild Dictionary of Interior Design places the
fundamental, accumulated understanding of interior design in the broadest and most
comprehensive of contexts…. More >>
