Making Space: Interior Design by Women corrects a persistent imbalance in design history by mapping the careers of 250 women across more than 50 countries who shaped the built environment far beyond the domestic sphere.
About This Book
Interior design has long been characterised as a discipline naturally suited to women — and yet the women who defined it have been systematically sidelined in favour of the architect or furniture designer. Making Space dismantles that framing. Jane Hall's survey spans the full arc of women's contribution to interior design across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: from canonical figures such as Elsie de Wolfe, Dorothy Draper, and Sibyl Colefax, to contemporary practitioners including Rose Uniacke, Kelly Wearstler, and Brigette Romanek, to designers whose work has been almost entirely erased from the record. The result is a serious reassessment of who the true tastemakers of modern interiors actually are.
Key Features
- 288 pages of editorial photography and portraits spanning more than a century of interior design practice
- Authored by Jane Hall
- Features 250 designers from more than 50 countries, including Rose Uniacke, Kelly Wearstler, Brigette Romanek, Dorothy Draper, Sibyl Colefax, and Elsie de Wolfe
- Published by Phaidon, ISBN 9781837290086
What You'll Discover
- How women have shaped interiors across public and commercial spaces, not only the home — reframing the discipline's cultural significance
- The full spectrum of interior design approaches represented, from flamboyant maximalism to rigorous minimalism, across wildly different cultural contexts
- Designers who have been written out of history alongside those whose reputations are well established, presented within the same critical frame
- A cross-generational survey that connects pioneering figures of the early twentieth century with unsung and emerging practitioners working today
About the Author
Jane Hall is the author of this survey of women in interior design. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 290 × 250 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781837290086
- Publisher: Phaidon
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Interior designers, design historians, architecture students, and anyone building a serious library of design criticism and practice — particularly those interested in redressing gaps in the canonical record.