Selected bibliography

Pile, John, The History of Interior Design, J. Willey & sons, Hoboken 2005. [It might be a chosen book to make a comparison with Blakemore's one  because it deals with the same topic and both books were published at the same period of time. John Pile is the author of twelve books concerning interior design and History of Interior Design was the last one (2005). This text which is also like Blakemore’s one a major survey of the history of interior design about (6.000 years), with discussion of the construction, architecture, the arts and crafts and technology there are a numerous styles, movements and international political and social developments that have informed or challenged its evolution, so description like Classical Civilizations, Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque had been illustrated, and that what was not clearly illustrated by Blakemore's text because she concentrated on the practical aspects and the details. The furniture topic takes a special consideration in Blakemore's book while Pile had generally showed the furnishing style without being specific.]

Judith Miller, Furniture: World Styles from classical to Contemporary. DK ADULT, 2005. [The book was also kind of texts that deals with long periods, starting with 4000 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E and ending with post-contemporary and modern in 1970 to the present, describing and defining elements of styles, and it s famous artisans also it is showing a collection of sample chairs, tables, case pieces, desks and the like.]

Calloway, Stephen, The Elements of Style. A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1450 to the Present, Simon &Schuster, 1997. [It is a comprehensive visual evidence of most of the styles of architecture and interior design that have influenced American and Britain since the Renaissance, it is also arranged by period style and indexed by specific design features (doors, windows, walls, ceiling, roofs and stoves).]

Edward Lucie-Smith, Furniture: A Concise History (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, London 1985. [In this illuminating history, text and illustrations combine to offer a view of furniture not as a succession of collectors' pieces, but as a statement about the society that created it. Lucie-Smith offers insights into almost every period, from the prehistoric to the post-modern--from Neolithic tables to 1960s conversation pits, and from the ceremonial chairs of Egypt in the thirteenth century BC to the designs of John Makepeace. Throughout, the author has kept in focus the way in which people's lives, their self-images and preoccupations, as well as the organization and techniques of furniture-making, have affected the forms of these objects, which are so vital a part of our environment].