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The art déco interior of the grand concourse at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia The lobby of Hotel Bristol, Warsaw A historical example: Balliol College Dining Hall, Oxford. Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to
Interior architecture is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed. It can refer to the initial design and plan used for a building's interior, to that interior's later redesign made to accommodate a changed purpose, or to the significant revision of an original ...
Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle Eastern influences in furniture, fittings, and interior decoration.
Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.
Cumberland Terrace, London, John Nash The original Piccadilly entrance to the Burlington Arcade, 1819 John Nash's All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style.
Italian Baroque interior design refers to high-style furnishing and interior decorating carried out in Italy during the Baroque period, which lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century. In provincial areas, Baroque forms such as the clothes-press or armadio continued to be used into the 19th century.
An example of the Eastlake Style in Glendale, California. The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906).
Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts. [1] With a broad definition, the contexts of design history include the social, the cultural, the economic, the political, the technical and the aesthetic.