RIVALRY BETWEEN INTERIOR 'DECORATORS' AND 'DESIGNERS' ISN'T MOVING THE DEBATE ON...

摘要

Your 'design for decoration' panel (August issue, and pictured above) might have got further if they could have brought themselves to step back more from the rather petty turf war between interior 'designers' and interior 'decorators' - both terms in considerable need of explication and historical contextualising. When did decoration become a sure sign of moral disintegration? In the second half of the 19th century, in reaction to the Victorian willingness to apply decorative effects of any provenance or quantity to architecture and manufactures.