INT211 - History of Interiors and Furniture

TRITON COLLEGE RIVER GROVE, ILLINOIS
FALL, 2006
INSTRUCTOR: WAYNE CLOSE

Text: Pile, John.  History of Interior Design, Second Edition.

Recommended Text:  Morley, John.  History of Furniture: Three Thousand Years of Style, Form & Design.

Syllabus

Session Number

 Date

 Topic

Reading from Pile to be completed prior to this class

 Student Presentation (Power Point)

1 

Chapter 1: Prehistory to Early Civilizations

Chapter 2: Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome

Pompeii

2

Chapter 1: Mesopotamia: Sumeria; Pre-Columbian America

Greece & Rome (continued)

Chapter 3: Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque

Chapter 5: The Later Middle Ages

Power Point Intro

pp. 18-23

pp. 13-17; 18-25; 31-42; 49-55; 55-67

pp. 69-97


pp. 99-117

 

3


Power Point Intro, continued

Chapter 4: Islamic and Asian Traditions

Chapter 6: Classical Ornament

The Renaissance in Italy

Chapter 7: Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe

Chapter 8: Renaissance, Baroque & Rococo in France and Spain

French Interiors, part 2

French Interiors, part 3

French Interiors, part 4

French Interiors, part 5

 

Chapter 9: Renaissance to Georgian in the Low Countries and England

pp. 121-143

 

 

pp. 69 - 97

pp. 121 - 143

 

 

pp. 145-161

 

pp. 163-187

 

 

pp. 189-207


4

Chapter 10: Colonial and Federal America

 

 pp. 209-227

 

 

5

Chapter 11: The Regency, Revivals and Industrial Revolution

pp. 229-245

 

6

Chapter 12: The Victorian Era

 

pp. 247-265

7


 

Chapter 13: The Aesthetic Movements
Arts & Crafts: Ruskin, Morris, Webb
The Craftsman Movement: Stickley and the Roycrofters, Bradley, Richardson, Green & Green, Maybeck
Germany: Muthesius & Berlage

pp. 267-281

 

8


Midterm Exam covering sessions 1 – 7

Chapter 14: Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession

Louis Sullivan

 

pp. 283-299

9


Chapter 15: Eclecticism

pp. 301-321

 

10


Chapter 16: The Emergence of Modernism

 

 

pp. 323-347

 

 


Visit the Thorn Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago – view all of the rooms and write a report about your favorite room(s) that you have seen there

 

 

11


 

Chapter 17: Art Deco and Industrial Design

Chapter 18: The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe

 pp. 349-361


12


Chapter 19: Modernism in America

Chapter 20: The Ascendency of Modernism

pp. 373-385

 

 

pp. 387-405

 


 

13


 Chapter 21: Contemporary Design

Fabrics and Window Treatments

 pp. 407-439