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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prehistory to Early Civilizations | |
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| Prehistoric Interiors | |
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| Archeological Evidence | |
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| The First Shelters | |
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| Dolmens and Barrows | |
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| Evidence from Tribal Cultures | |
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| Pattern and Design | |
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| The First Permanent Settlements | |
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| Mesopotamia: Sumeria | |
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| Ancient Egypt | |
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| Geometry and Proportion | |
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| Egyptian Temples and Houses | |
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| Egyptian Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings | |
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| Classical Civilizations: Greece and Rome | |
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| Minoan and Mycenaean Cultures | |
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| Knossos | |
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| Mycenae and Tiryns | |
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| Greece | |
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| The Temple | |
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| Secular Interiors | |
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| Insights: The Growth of Athens | |
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| Rome | |
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| Arches, Vaults, and Domes | |
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| Amphitheaters and Baths | |
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| Temples | |
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| Secular Buildings | |
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| Insights: The Cost of Living in Ancient Rome | |
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| Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings | |
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| The Legacy of Rome: Technology | |
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| Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque | |
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| Early Christian Design | |
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| Byzantine Design | |
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| Insights: The Ravenna Mosaics | |
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| Ravenna | |
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| Hagia Sophia | |
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| Secular Buildings | |
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| Early Medieval: The "Dark Ages" | |
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| The Romanesque Style | |
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| Churches | |
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| Germany | |
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| Italy | |
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| France | |
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| England | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Fortresses and Castles | |
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| Monasteries and Abbeys | |
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| Insights: The Abbey at Cluny | |
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| Houses | |
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| Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings | |
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| Islamic Influence | |
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| The Mosque | |
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| Moorish Elements in Spanish Romanesque | |
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| The Later Middle Ages | |
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| Elements of Gothic Style | |
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| New Construction Techniques | |
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| Gothic Cathedrals and Churches | |
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| France | |
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| England | |
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| Elsewhere in Europe | |
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| Secular Gothic Buildings | |
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| Insights: Construction Work in a Medieval Building | |
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| Castles and Palaces | |
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| Medieval Houses | |
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| Innovations in Domestic Comfort | |
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| The Renaissance in Italy | |
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| The Rise of Humanism | |
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| Renaissance Interest in History | |
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| Elements of Renaissance Style | |
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| The Early Renaissance | |
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| Brunelleschi | |
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| Michelozzo | |
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| Alberti | |
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| The High Renaissance | |
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| Bramante | |
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| Palaces | |
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| Insights: Vasari's Account of The Farnese Palace | |
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| The Late Renaissance and Mannerism | |
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| Michelangelo | |
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| Romano | |
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| Palladio | |
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| Vignola | |
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| Interior Furnishings | |
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| Furniture | |
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| Coverings | |
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| Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe | |
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| Elements of Baroque Style | |
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| The Baroque in Italy | |
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| Rome | |
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| Bernini | |
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| Borromini | |
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| Venice | |
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| Longhena | |
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| Turin | |
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| Guarini | |
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| Juvarra | |
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| Baroque in Northern Europe | |
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| Austria | |
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| Switzerland | |
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| Germany | |
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| Furniture and Other Interior Features | |
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| Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain | |
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| France | |
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| Early Renaissance | |
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| High Renaissance | |
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| Baroque | |
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| Versailles | |
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| Insights: Louis XIV and Versailles | |
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| Louvre | |
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| Baroque Churches | |
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| Furniture and Furnishings | |
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| Regency to Rococo | |
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| Paris Hotels | |
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| The Petit Trianon | |
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| Regency and Rococo Furniture | |
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| Rococo to Neoclassicism | |
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| The Empire Style | |
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| Insights: The Empire Style | |
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| Provincial Style | |
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| Spain | |
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| Plateresco | |
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| Desornamentado | |
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| Churrigueresco | |
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| Furniture and Other Interior Features | |
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| Renaissance to Georgian in The Low Countries and England | |
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| Low Countries | |
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| Civic Buildings | |
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| Private Dwellings | |
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| England | |
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| Tudor | |
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| Elizabethan | |
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| Elizabethan Furniture | |
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| Jacobean | |
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| Jones | |
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| Jacobean Interior Furnishings | |
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| From Carolean to William and Mary | |
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| Wren | |
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| Carolean and William and Mary Interior Furnishings | |
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| Queen Anne | |
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| Queen Anne Furniture | |
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| Georgian | |
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| Robert and James Adam | |
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| Insights: Robert Adam and Syon House | |
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| Georgian Town Houses | |
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| Other Building Types | |
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| Georgian Furniture and Interior Furnishings | |
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| Colonial and Federal America | |
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| Colonial Styles in Latin America | |
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| Colonial Styles in North America | |
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| Early Colonial Houses | |
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| Early Colonial Furniture and Interior Furnishings | |
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| Churches and Meeting Houses | |
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| American Georgian | |
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| American Georgian Houses | |
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| American Georgian and Queen Anne Furniture | |
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| Late Colonial Public Buildings | |
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| Federal Styles | |
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| Jefferson | |
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| Bulfinch | |
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| Thornton and Latrobe | |
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| Furniture of the Federal Period | |
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| Other Furnishings of the Federal Period | |
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| The Regency, Revivals, and Industrial Revolution | |
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| Regency | |
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| Nash | |
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| Soane | |
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| Regency Furniture | |
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| Revivals | |
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| Greek Revival | |
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| Germany | |
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| England | |
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| United States | |
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| Gothic Revival | |
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| United States | |
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| England | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Early Industrialization and Inventions | |
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| Industry and Interiors | |
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| Iron and Glass | |
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| England: Paxton | |
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| Insights: The Public's Perception of Crystal Palace | |
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| France: Labrouste, Baltard, and Eiffel | |
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| The Victorian Era | |
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| The Roots of Victorian Style | |
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| Britain | |
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| Mansions | |
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| Middle-class Houses and Public Buildings | |
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| Shaw and the Queen Anne Revival | |
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| United States: Victorian Variations | |
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| Mansions | |
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| Vernacular House Styles | |
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| Shingle Style | |
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| Adirondack Style | |
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| Shaker Design | |
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| Insights: The Shaker Philosophy | |
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| Early Skyscrapers | |
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| Public Buildings | |
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| Furness | |
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| Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings | |
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| The Aesthetic Movements | |
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| Britain: Arts and Crafts | |
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| Ruskin and the Roots of Arts and Crafts | |
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| Morris | |
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| Webb | |
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| Other British Designers | |
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| Insights: Rossetti and the Aesthetic House | |
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| Links to Modernism | |
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| Voysey | |
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| Mackmurdo | |
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| Mackintosh | |
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| United States: The Craftsman Movement | |
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| Stickley and the Roycrofters | |
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| Bradley | |
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| Richardson | |
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| Greene and Green and Maybeck | |
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| Developments in Continental Europe | |
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| Germany: Muthesius | |
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| The Netherlands: Berlage | |
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| Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession | |
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| Roots and Characteristics of Art Nouveau | |
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| Belgium | |
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| Horta | |
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| Insights: Victor Horta and Art Nouveau | |
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| Van de Velde | |
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| France | |
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| The School of Nancy | |
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| Guimard | |
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| Other French Designers | |
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| Spain | |
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| Gaudi | |
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| Germany: Jugendstil | |
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| Endell | |
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| Riemerschmidt and Behrens | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Austria: The Vienna Secession | |
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| Olbrich | |
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| Wagner | |
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| Insights: Otto Wagner and "Modern Architecture" | |
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| Hoffmann | |
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| Loos | |
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| United States | |
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| Tiffany | |
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| Sullivan | |
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| Eclecticism | |
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| The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris | |
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| United States | |
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| Key Architects and Designers | |
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| Hunt | |
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| McKim, Mead, and White | |
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| Public Buildings | |
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| Early Skyscrapers | |
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| The Rise of the Interior Decorator | |
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| De Wolfe | |
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| Wood | |
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| McMillen | |
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| Other American Decorators | |
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| Eclecticism in Professional Practice | |
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| Saarinen and Cranbrook Academy | |
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| Stripped Classicism | |
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| Eclecticism for the Masses | |
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| Houses and Apartments | |
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| Furniture and Accessories | |
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| Movie Theaters | |
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| Europe | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Britain | |
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| Lutyens | |
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| Insights: Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Viceroy's House in New Delhi | |
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| Ocean Liners | |
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| The Spread of Eclecticism | |
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| The Emergence of Modernism | |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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| The Early Commissions | |
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| Insights: The Philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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| De Stijl | |
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| Mondrian and van Doesburg | |
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| Rietveld | |
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| Pioneers of the International Style | |
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| Gropius and the Bauhaus | |
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| Mies van der Rohe | |
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| Work of the 1920s and 1930s | |
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| Insights: Mies van der Rohe: the Tugendhat House | |
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| Emigration to the United States | |
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| Later Commissions | |
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| Le Corbusier | |
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| Paris: Developing the Machine Aesthetic | |
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| Early Houses, Villas, and Apartments | |
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| Insights: The Philosophy of Le Corbusier | |
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| Town Planning | |
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| Post-War Years | |
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| Late Commissions | |
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| Aalto | |
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| Insights: The Vision of Alvar Aalto | |
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| Art Deco and Industrial Design | |
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| Art Deco | |
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| France | |
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| Furniture Designers | |
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| Textile Design | |
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| Ocean Liners | |
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| United States | |
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| Designers from Europe | |
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| Deco Architecture | |
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| Britain | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Industrial Design | |
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| Loewy and Other Designers | |
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| Design Training | |
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| Residential Design | |
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| Kitchens and Bathrooms | |
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| Lighting | |
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| Textiles, Carpets, and Furniture | |
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| The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe | |
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| The Netherlands | |
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| Germany and Austria | |
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| Italy | |
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| Switzerland | |
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| France | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| England | |
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| Modernism in America | |
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| Architects and Designers | |
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| Gill | |
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| Wright: 1920s and 1930s | |
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| Schindler and Neutra | |
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| Lescaze | |
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| Goodwin and Stone | |
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| Gropius and Breuer | |
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| Mies van der Rohe | |
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| Johnson | |
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| Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill | |
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| Eero Saarinen | |
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| Interior Decoration: The Reaction to Modernism | |
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| Furniture and other Interior Furnishings | |
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| Knoll | |
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| Herman Miller Furniture Company | |
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| The Ascendency of Modernism | |
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| Italy | |
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| Insights: Gio Ponte: Pirelli Tower | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| France | |
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| Germany | |
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| The Netherlands | |
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| Britain | |
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| United States | |
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| Urban Office Buildings | |
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| Office Planning | |
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| Office Furniture | |
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| Interior Designers | |
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| Furniture and Other Interior Furnishings | |
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| Textiles | |
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| Late Twentieth-Century Design | |
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| Prophets of Future Design | |
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| Kahn | |
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| Pelli | |
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| High-tech | |
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| Fuller | |
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| Insights: Rogers and Piano and the Centre Pompidou | |
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| Rogers and Piano | |
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| Foster | |
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| Stirling | |
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| Insights: James Stirling | |
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| Post-modernism | |
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| Venturi and Scott Brown | |
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| Graves | |
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| Johnson | |
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| Post-modernism in Europe | |
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| The Revival of Tradition | |
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| Greenberg | |
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| Stern | |
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| Late Modernism | |
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| Pei | |
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| Gwathmey and Meier | |
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| Individual Stylists | |
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| Starck | |
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| Putman | |
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| Deconstructivism | |
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| Eisenman | |
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| Gehry | |
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| Other Trends | |
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| East-West Crossovers | |
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| Preservation | |
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| Green Buildings | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |