The Story of the Interior

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ISBN: 9780500027592

How We Have Shaped Rooms and How They Shape Us

Graeme Brooker

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English

Thames & Hudson Ltd
16 October 2025

Professional interior design

An exhilarating and eclectic volume on the social, cultural and technological history of interior design from prehistory to the present day, revealing how spaces shape our lives and why it matters.

From traditional nomadic dwellings to state-of-the-art airports, through monumental temples and Baroque palaces to high-rise apartments and high-fashion boutiques, The Story of the Interior explores an exciting array of inside spaces from around the world to reveal how the fundamental elements of a room have evolved and endured.

Organized in three parts - The Room, The Private Interior and The Public Interior - the book presents a fascinating account of how the interior has been conceived and thought of from antiquity to the present day. By calling attention to the most basic elements of inside space - walls, doors, windows, furniture, ambience to name a few - this engaging exploration delves into how private and public interiors actively shape the way we live, work, learn and play.

The book spans a wide range of iconic and offbeat examples drawn from the world of architecture, urbanism and furniture design, as well as art installations and imagined spaces. Brooker deftly guides us through interiors as diverse as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, the Prada store in Marfa, Texas, and Sou Fujimoto's NA House, as well as the rock-cut Buddhist temples of India, medieval European castles and ancient Egyptian tombs, to unveil the drastically different and surprisingly similar spaces that surround us.

The result is a fascinating tour of global interiors, tracing the genesis and evolution of these places and how they help us understand human presence and behaviour.

By: Graeme Brooker
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 215mm,
Weight: 2.220kg
ISBN: 9780500027592
ISBN 10: 0500027595
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 16 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Graeme Brooker is an interior designer with extensive experience in practice, education and research. Since 2015 he has been the head of programme for the Interior Design MA at the Royal College of Art in London. He has taught at institutions in America, Europe and Asia, and is the author of numerous books on the histories, theories and processes of the interior.

Reviews for The Story of the Interior: How We Have Shaped Rooms and How They Shape Us

With more than 500 photographs and illustrations packing its already information-rich 400 pages, The Story of the Interior might just be the defining text on the history of interiors... Unexpected connections make [this book] the perfect curiosity-sating companion for anyone living within four walls.-- ""Bookpage (starred Review)""