CIAMAMA domestic design archive
with special thanks to my old friend from art school, Dr. Nicolas Maffei, who read an early draft of the document and made invaluable suggestions for further research and design. Also special thanks to Don Mullins, who’s shared his immense knowledge and collection of 19th century furnishings with me over the years. And to Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz and Michu Benaim Steiner for workshopping an early version of the project.
Edith Wharton - The Decoration of Houses
Charles Eastlake - Hints on Household Taste
Elsie de Wolfe - The House in Good Taste
Russel and Mary Wright - Guide to Easier Living
Grace Lees Maffei - Design at Home for Routledge
Clarence Cook - What Shall We Do With Our Walls?
Vincent Scully - The Shingle Style Today: Or the Historian’s Revenge -
Christopher Alexander - A Pattern Launguage
Robert Venturi - Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour - Learning from Las Vegas
Tom Wolfe - From Bauhaus to Our House
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Vincent Scully - The Shingle Style and the Stick Style
Charles Moore and Kent Bloomer Body, Memory, and Architecture
Kazuko Sato - Alchemia
Joseph Hotlzman - Nest Magazine
NY Times - T magazine
Conde Nast - World of Interiors Magazine
Raymond Loewy's MAYA (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable)
Otto Neuraths' ISOTYPE (International System of TYPographic Education)?
Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour - Learning from Las Vegas
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