A Re-View from the Margin: Interior Design

"In 2004 I published an article in Design Issues titled “A View from the Margin: Interior Design.” In that article I tried to make sense of what I viewed and experienced as the marginality of interior design compared with architecture. I wrote: It is clear to me that the mechanisms of the power of this label are part of a larger discourse that assigns both interior design and the feminine the position of “Other.” Interior design is perceived as feminine, superficial, and mimetic as compared to a male, rational, and original architecture. Although the subtext is not said out loud, it still is clear: interior design is inferior to architecture."