Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory
Interior design is concisely written about in a historic timeline yet lacks the same for theoretical framing. Toward a New Interior is not a historical summation of the discipline, but rather, looks at interiors through scaled layers that start at the body and end at the city as a way to elicit a broader set of issues that span gender, sustainability, philosophy, and poché to name a few. It does so through a collection of fifty essays organized into a framework of eight chapters. The starting point is a diagram representing nested layers that form interiors, spanning clothing, furniture, surfaces, and the threshold between interior and exterior. When viewing each of these chapters, a richer story unfolds through interdisciplinary lenses where the interior is the foundation upon which other disciplines can be situated. As few interior design theory readers exist, this edited anthology seeks to fill the theoretical gap.
