The historic interior
- Aynsley, J. and Grant, C. (eds.), Imagined
Interiors, representing the domestic since the Renaissance
(2006). This book sprang from the same project as The
Domestic Interiors Database, which is an online, searchable collection of images.
- Ayres, J., The Shell Book of the Home in
Britain: Decoration,
design and construction of vernacular interiors 1500-1850
(1981).
- Beard, G., Craftsmen and
Interior Decoration in England 1660-1820 (1981).
- Beard, G., The National Trust Book of the
English House Interior (1990).
- Cornforth,
J., The Quest for Comfort: English Interiors 1790-1848 (1978).
- Cooper, N., The Opulent Eye: Late Victorian
and
Edwardian Taste in Interior Design (1976).
- Fowler, J. and Cornforth, J., English
Decoration in the 18th
Century (1984).
- Gore, A. and A., The History of English
Interiors (1991).
- Hardyment, C., Behind the Scenes: Domestic
arrangements in historic houses (1997).
- Jackson, L., Twentieth-Century Pattern Design:
Textile and Wallpaper Pioneers (2002).
- Kightly, C., Living Rooms: Interior Decoration
in Wales 400–1960 (2005).
- Parissien, S., Interiors: The Home Since 1700
(2008). Concentrates on the homes of merchants and
the middle classes.
- Pile, J., A History of Interior Design,
3rd edn. (2009). Worldwide.
- Thorton, P., Authentic Decor: The domestic
interior 1620-1920
(1984).
- Thorton, P., Seventeenth Century Interior
Decoration in England, France and Holland
(1978).
- Wood, M., John Fowler: Prince of decorators
(2007).
- Yarwood, D., English
Interiors: A pictorial guide and glossary (1983).
- See also the works listed under dating
historic buildings for many examples of fixtures and
fittings.
- See also pages on specific styles, such as Georgian
and Chinoiserie.
Plasterwork
- Bankart, G., The Art of the Plasterer
(1908; facsimile
edition Donhead 2002).
- Beard, G., Decorative Plasterwork in Great
Britain (1975).
- Lucey, C., The Stapleton Collection: Designs
for the Irish
neoclassical interior (2007).
- Curran, C.P., Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of
the 17th and 18th
Centuries (1967).
- McDonnell, J., Irish Eighteenth-Century
Stuccowork and its European Sources
(Dublin, 1991).
- Millar, W., Plastering Plain and Decorative (1897;
reprinted Donhead 1998).
- Musson, J., Period Details - Plasterwork: From
the Archives of Country Life (2000).
Wallpaper
- Crick, C., Historic Wallpapers in the
Whitworth Art Gallery (1972).
- Historic New England, Wallpaper in New
England provides a history and online database of its large
collection of wallpapers from the 1750s to the
1950s. Most of the Georgian examples were imported from England; there
are also papers from China.
- Mapes, P., Historic
Wallpaper Conservation, The Building
Conservation Directory (1997)
- Saunders, G., Wallpaper
in Interior Decoration
(Victoria and Albert Museum 2002).
- Sugden, A.V. and Edmondson, J.L., The History
of English Wallpaper
1509-1914 (1926).
- The Historic Wallpaper Review is
published by the Wallpaper
History Society.
- See also the comprehensive bibliography
of wallpaper history provided by the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
