Sources and original illustrations

Primary references and the limits of this educational collection.

Primary references

• Getty Museum: Principles of design — Balance, emphasis, repetition, proportion and visual rhythm in original room exercises.
• Getty Museum: Elements of art — Line, form, colour value, space and texture.
• V&A: Arts and Crafts introduction — Craft, production, material and the concept of a coordinated interior.
• V&A: Art Nouveau, an international style — Natural forms, fluid line, regional differences and integrated decoration.
• V&A: Art Deco — Art Deco’s mixture of tradition, modernity and decorative design across furnishings.
• Bauhaus-Archiv: Collection — Primary collection context for Bauhaus objects and design research.
• MoMA: Rietveld’s Red Blue Chair — Rectilinear planes, construction and the chair’s connection with De Stijl.
• Designmuseum Danmark — Danish Modern as a varied design history rather than a single neutral colour scheme.
• Eames Office: Molded plywood group — Material experimentation, curved forms and production in midcentury furniture.
• Metropolitan Museum: Shaker furniture — Shaker religious context, utility, form, proportion and historically painted furniture.
• V&A: Neoclassicism — Classical Greek and Roman references and eighteenth-century design context.
• V&A: Thomas Hope and Regency style — Regency classicism, antiquity references and Thomas Hope’s design context.
• V&A: Aesthetic Movement introduction — Art for art’s sake, artistic domestic display and multiple design influences.
• Metropolitan Museum: Rococo Revival parlor — Nineteenth-century revival interiors and the distinction from eighteenth-century Rococo.
• V&A: Postmodern design collection resource — Playfulness, reference, mixed styles and the broader context of Memphis.
• V&A: Furniture collection — Furniture as diverse objects with construction, material and historical context.

Original visual material

The diagrams in this edition are original SVG illustrations explaining the sequence or decisions in each guide. They do not show a laboratory experiment, a personal trip or a tested product result. No photographs from the linked sources are reproduced.

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References were consulted during preparation of this edition. A source may cover a broader or narrower question than a particular guide; the support notes above explain why it is listed. Read the original for methodology, exceptions and updates.