When did interior design start?

Interior design is the process of making a building, space, or home attractive. Today interior designers do everything from decorating living rooms to designing museums, and their tasks have increased dramatically over the years. Interestingly though, it was not until post World War II that interior design started to develop into what we know it as today. In 1870s and 1880s great Utopian architects like Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright got famous for their innovative designs which completely changed how people designed homes inside. As time progressed more modern day masters like Le Corbusier made even more innovations to the field with his architectural buildings constructed in pure white cube-shaped shapes shape that are then filled with beautiful furniture.

The interior design profession dates back to the 1920s, when a group of female artists and crafts workers in Paris rebelled against the male-dominated field. The École de l'Art de L'Industrie was founded by Rose Desquiens in 1928 with the Grand Duke George V's commission, for industrial designers and architects who did not want to follow the two standard paths of either an apprenticeship or academia.

Interior design is a specialized "vernacular" of the architecture industry, used by architects and interior designers to make buildings more habitable and ergonomic. The term "interior design" itself may have been coined in 1868 by John Wellborn Root (or Owen Biddle) of Chicago's Larkin Company. When discussing about architecture with his colleagues Winston Churchill or Edward Langhorne they would say "we are going to attack the problem from inside." What this meant was that they were not just interested on building structures but also wanted these structures to be comfortable as well as beautiful. There should be no mistake that there is a need for having people knowledgeable in a particular field when it comes to designing interiors for buildings.

Interior design starts when we build spaces for living and the objects in them. The three basic needs of humans are shelter, subsistence, and protection from violence (which is what differentiates human beings from animals). In architecture, interior design is a part of designing space that has indoors activities or tasks. Female role models who made significant contributions to history include Emily Post with her book on etiquette in 1922 and fashion designer Coco Chanel who played an integral role in bringing the notion of casual chic to modern life. Interior design's roots go deep into our culture's past as evidenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting furniture decorating the homes of Egypt's ruling classes 5000 years ago.

interior design first started with the ancient Greeks and Romans. In Ancient Greece, architects were the designers, based on their knowledge of mathematics in creating dimensionless systems that rely on ratios for all construction principles. This would make them an early form of architect-designers or designer-architects. The Roman Empire was well known for building aqueducts—usually concrete—to transport water from mountains to urban centers, spas, public baths and private villas’ gardens used to maintain cleanliness through the use of water in various forms (rainwater harvesting), such as layered mosaics and rich imagery paintings.

It is difficult to pinpoint the exact time when interior design became widely used. Architects, carpenters, and sculptors have been designing beautiful work since the dawn of man. But it was not until recently that there has been a profession in which someone designs spaces according to a specific set of agreed upon principles with the sole purpose of making them livable for human beings in addition to being aesthetically pleasing. This title may surprise many people because it seems like an occupation is so familiar everybody knows what its goals are--sheltering man from the elements while decorating a room in such style that life becomes fundamentally easier, more comfortable, or more enjoyable than it would otherwise be without these amenities.