Professional Practice

World-renowned interior designers provide detailed analysis of diverse projects, guiding the reader through the development process.

The 20th century offered many visions of domestic life, from the mechanised home to the notion that technology might free us from it altogether. This book explores different attitudes toward the home, tracing its evolution as a site of endless invention. It proposes that we are living in yesterday's tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted.

Having gone through more than seven years of architectural and design studies, Jimmy Doctor found that all those years spent studying architecture and interior design did not give him even a glimpse of what goes into detailing a piece of furniture like a sofa, a chair, or a table.

A unique and engaging book, Designing Change is a visual discourse into the creative psyche of the interior-architects at DPD. It explores and illustrates how designing an interior space goes beyond a direct, strategic response to a building's intrinsic architectural form to examine and embody the evolving relationship between man and built environment.