Graphic guide to interior design /
Forrest Wilson
- New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, c1977.
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Space -- Sound of space -- The eye -- Scale of sight -- Man-made structures -- Physical forces -- Building material characteristics -- Wood -- Plywood -- Metal -- Plaster -- Weighing material decisions -- Light -- Lighting symbols-incandescent fixtures -- Fluorescent fixtures -- Sound -- Plumbing -- Electrical circuit -- Heating -- Cooling -- Air conditioning -- Size of people -- Visual experience -- Patterns -- Texture -- Color -- Design as a puzzle -- Graphic synthesis -- Orthographic drawing -- Isometric and oblique drawing -- Perspective drawing -- Models as thinking tools -- Conclusion.
The purpose of this book is to explain the ideas of interior design as a simple square. A square is not a very complicated geometric figure. all of its sides are the same length and all of its angles are right angles.
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INTERIOR DECORATIONS -- HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC. DESIGN -- HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.