Interior design

Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. With a keen eye for detail and a creative flair, an interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such enhancement projects. Interior design is a multifaceted profession that includes conceptual development, space planning, site inspections, programming, research, communicating with the stakeholders of a project, construction management, and execution of the design.

For other uses, see Interior design (disambiguation).

Retail: includes malls and shopping centers, department stores, specialty stores, visual merchandising, and showrooms.

Visual and spatial branding: The use of space as a medium to express a corporate brand.

Corporate: office design for any kind of business such as banks.

Healthcare: the design of hospitals, assisted living facilities, medical offices, dentist offices, psychiatric facilities, laboratories, medical specialist facilities.

Hospitality and recreation: includes hotels, motels, resorts, cruise ships, cafes, bars, casinos, nightclubs, theaters, music and concert halls, opera houses, sports venues, restaurants, gyms, health clubs and spas, etc.

Institutional: government offices, financial institutions (banks and credit unions), schools and universities, religious facilities, etc.

Industrial facilities: manufacturing and training facilities as well as import and export facilities.

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Exhibition: includes museums, gallery, exhibition hall, specially the design for showroom and exhibition gallery.

Traffic building: includes bus station, subway station, airports, pier, etc.

Sports: includes gyms, stadiums, swimming rooms, basketball halls, etc.

Teaching in a private institute that offer classes of interior design.

Self-employment.

Employment in private sector firms.

Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan

Hotel San Domenico in Taormina

Apothecary room

Villa del Balbianello

Lounge (1850)

Bar in Rotterdam

Balboa Bay Club

Axel Springer Tower, Berlin

Lutheran church in Nervi

Sibyl Colefax

Dorothy Draper

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Syrie Maugham

Margery Hoffman Smith

Elsie de Wolfe

Arthur Stannard Vernay

Frank Lloyd Wright

Other early interior decorators:

Many of the most famous designers and decorators during the 20th century had no formal training. Some examples include Sister Parish, Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade, Kerry Joyce, Kelly Wearstler, Stéphane Boudin, Georges Geffroy, Emilio Terry, Carlos de Beistegui, Nina Petronzio, Lorenzo Mongiardino, Mary Jean Thompson and David Nightingale Hicks.

Notable interior designers in the world today include Scott Salvator, Troy Adams, Jonathan Adler, Michael S. Smith, Martin Brudnizki, Mary Douglas Drysdale, Kelly Hoppen, Kelly Wearstler, Nina Campbell, David Collins, Nate Berkus, Sandra Espinet, Jo Hamilton and Nicky Haslam.

1960s decor

American Society of Interior Designers

Blueprint

British Institute of Interior Design

Chartered Society of Designers

Environmental psychology

Experiential interior design

Fuzzy architectural spatial analysis

Interior architecture

Interior design psychology

Interior design regulation in the United States

Japanese interior design

Primitive decorating

Wall decals

Window treatment

a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes a great deal of content about early interior design