Routledge Research in Interior Design
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Interior Design series provides the reader with the latest scholarship in the field of interiors. The series publishes research from across the globe and covers areas as diverse as the history and theory of interiors, evidence-based case studies, technology, digital interior design, materials, details, monographs of interior designers, and much more. By making these studies available to the worldwide academic community, the series aims to promote quality interior design research.
Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature
1st Edition
By Shu-chuan Yan
September 25, 2025
Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature considers how the domestic interior is constituted, imag(in)ed, contested, and mediated in the public forum of advice literature. It interrogates the construction and negotiation of aesthetic femininity and domestic ...
Material Theories: Locating Artefacts and People in Gottfried Semper's Writings
1st Edition
By Elena Chestnova
January 29, 2024
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style. This ...
Designed to Sell: The Evolution of Modern Merchandising and Display
1st Edition
By Alessandra Wood
January 21, 2023
Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of postwar philosophies of retail design that embodied aesthetics and function and new modes of merchandise display, resulting...
Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail
1st Edition
Edited
By Anca I. Lasc, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Margaret Maile Petty
January 14, 2020
Through an international range of case studies from the 1870s to the present, this volume analyzes strategies of display in department stores and modern retail spaces. Established scholars and emerging researchers working within a range of disciplinary contexts and historiographical traditions shed...