Interior designers artistically translate space into inhabitable, comfortable and often luxurious environments, exploring the finest materials and manufacturing methods to create the best solutions for their clients.

INTERIOR DESIGN

Decorating Forties Style - A Visual Sourebook by David Claudon Ideas from the 1940's for miniaturists, set designers, interior design students and researchers looking for "how we got where we are."

LIVING HISTORY An incomplete but not indifferent retelling of the golden age of San Francisco interior design San Francisco Chronicle

 New York Public Library, Picture Collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines, newspapers, original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923

NOTABLE INTERIOR DESIGNERS & DECORATORS

David Hicks

DESIGN NOTEBOOK; Camelot Sideshow: Decor Tug-of-War - Stepahnie Boudin

Dorothy Draper (1889 - 1969)

Henry Francis du Pont ● FOCUS; Fixing the Flaws of a du Pont Showcase New York Times ● Henry Francis du Pont - Brief life of a passionate connoisseur: 1880-1969 by Shirley Moscow - Harvard Magazine ● LaFamille DuPont by Chateau Country Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969) ● Winterthur Museum - About Henry Francis du Pont