British Interior Design Since 1925 sensitivity to detailing and materials

sensitivity to detailing and materials in houses designed by the likes of Gerrit Rietveld

all are defined by a particular ambition to be innovative

asides on designing for servants and heights of windowsills

Placing Pressoir’s work in relation to trailblazing contemporaries such as Alice Neel

so enriching our understanding of this important contemporary figure

British Interior Design Since 1925 sensitivity to detailing and materialsAfter the First World War, Interior Design emerged in Britain as a distinctive profession, one that used fresh eyes and imagination to transform edifices old and new into environments that satisfied aesthetic appetites and enhanced the experiences of those who used them. This is the first critical account of the history of Interior Design in Britain, one that is distinct from that of Architecture, and which gives the profession a sense of its own