After Taste : Expanded Practice in Interior Design

After Taste : Expanded Practice in Interior Design

Author
Kent Kleinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Arts & Architecture

Comprising texts, interviews and portfolios that collectively document new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. The material is informed by, but not limited to, the annual AfterTaste symposia hosted by Parsons The New School of Design. The book s central argument is that the field of interior design is inadequately served by its historical reliance on taste-making and taste-makers, and, more recently from a set of theoretical concerns derived from architecture; the volume seeks to set an expanded frame by advancing new voices and perspectives in both the theory and practice of interior design, considered as an independent discipline. In 2007, the Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting at Parsons The New School for Design inaugurated an annual international symposium series dedicated to the critical study of the interior.


Keywords: Architecture / Décoration intérieure / Interior decoration / Interior decoration / Interior design