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interior design

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Discipline specializing in the design of interiors of homes or other buildings, including placement of furniture, accessories, aesthetic or decorative schemes, and spatial arrangements, construction, building systems, acoustics, lighting, heating, and air conditioning of spaces. May refer to design for existing spaces or for spaces in the planning phases. For the discipline limited to the choices of color, texture, and superficial arrangement of furnishings of a space, prefer "interior decoration." For the discipline focusing more on the architecture of the interior, prefer "interior architecture (discipline)."

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Yale R. Burge Antiques and Interiors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: nysidar_2013_02
Abstract

The Yale R. Burge Antiques and Interiors Collection contains sixteen boxes of materials related to the career of Yale R. Burge (1917-1972) who was a leading interior designer and headed both Yale R. Burge Interiors, an interior design firm based in New York City, and Yale R. Burge Antiques, which from 1955 to 2013 was an indispensable resource of 18th and 19th Century French and English furniture and accessories for some the nation’s top designers.

Dates: 1947-2013