HISTORY OF INTERIOR DESIGN

1. HISTORY OF INTERIOR DESIGN First Lecture

2. INTRODUCTION What is Interior Design?

4. Interior design is a discipline that looks after designing all of the interiors of a space. This can include things like flooring, windows, doors, walls, lighting, furniture, and miscellaneous design pieces.

5. The goal of interior design is generally to make a space that is both comfortable and aesthetically pleasing In practice, Interior Design manipulates space, form, texture, color, and light to enhance the quality of life.

6. Interior Design is one of the most exciting and creative professions. It is a combination of : Art, Science, and Technology.

7. history of Interior design The history of Interior design can be traced from the time of cavemen to today. Through the ages, there have been great advances in the art of interior design, but its roots tend to be simple, and styles are often representative of a particular historical period.

8. PREHISTORIC INTERIORS

9. Living in the modern, technologically advanced world, we take it for granted that major portion of our time is spent inside.

10. There have been human beings on earth for about 1.7 million years. The question of whenand where people first learned to use shelter, and what the earliest shelters were like, have long been the subject of much speculation.

11. Prehistoric materials are : physical objects, artifacts, or structures that dates from times before the beginning of the recorded history of the regions where they exist.

12. The first shelters

13. First shelters were either found-caves, or were made with materialsthat were easy to work with bare hands or with very simple tools. It is unlikely that caves where the most widely used of early human living places.

14. Cavesexist only in certain places and their numbers is limited. Caves were not comfortable and not attractive places to live.

15. Cavepaintings at Chauvet,Lascaux, and Altamiraclearly prove that early people did not used these caves as dwelling (house) places. • Caves were emergency shelters, places for special rituals, or ceremonies.

16. Materials

17. Constructed shelters from prehistory have survived only where they were made from durable materials. The most available and easy to work materials were: • twigs • Branches • Leaves • Rushes and similar plant materials,and animal materials such as skins or hides.

18. All materials usedwere: • Short lived • Subject to decay, and • Disappearance within brief time spans. Inorganic Materials such as mud, or (in cold climates) snow, have limited lasting qualities.

19. Stone although very durable, is so difficult to work with as to have had very limited possibilities for shelter buildings. These realities means the materials surviving from prehistoric times are mostly small objects of stone, such as: • Arrowheads, or • Large arrangements of stones set up in assembled structures.

20. Dolmens and Barrowers

21. Stonehenge on Salisbury

22. The arrangement of stones called Alignments, and the Dolmens of Brittany (France) and other European locations, are thoughtfully designed structures dating from prehistoric times.

23. Stonehengeon Salisbury plain in Britain, were used for ceremoniesorritualsconnected with observation of astronomical movements. Dolmensare more often linked to burial rites.

24. The arrangement of a large stone placed on top of two or three upright stones that make up the many dolmens seems to have created the inner chamber of tomb that took the form of an artificial hill.