Architecture & Built Environment · Interior & Landscape Design
A topic within Interior & Landscape Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr.
Argues that a room's proportion and architectural structure, not its furnishings or drapery, are what make an interior beautiful, breaking with Victorian upholstered excess in favour of classical restraint.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Elsie de Wolfe
Argues interior decoration should serve comfort, simplicity and the client's own character rather than following inherited period styles, written as a practical manual by America's first professional decorator.