Bruce Peter is the Professor of Design History in the Glasgow School of Art’s School of Design. He has researched and published extensively on modern architecture and design for transport, pleasure and hospitality. Drew Plunkett, a former academic and occasional practitioner, has been an observer and chronicler of the emergence of a distinctly British approach to interior design and of the national and international phenomena that have shaped it.

'This makes it a useful reference book for those working in retail, hospitality and office design, and its emphasis on commercial projects offers architects valuable insight into the kinds of spaces where collaboration with interior designers is most critical.' – Leo Wood, Building Design Online

• Introduction: British interiors and design debates before 1920; 1. After the Paris Exposition: the first Art Deco interiors in London’s West End; 2. Un-domestic domesticity: homes and lifestyles of a shifting establishment; 3. Ocean liner style: grandeur and modernity afloat; 4. High street populism: jazz moderne and streamform for retail and entertainment; 5. Moving On; 6. Subversion and regression; 7. Edifices Crumble; 8. Anarchy in the UK; 9. White seemed right; 10. Richer mixes; 11. Recession and resuscitation; 12. Digitising and sustaining

Bruce Peter is the Professor of Design History in the Glasgow School of Art’s School of Design. He has researched and published extensively on modern architecture and design for transport, pleasure and hospitality. Drew Plunkett, a former academic and occasional practitioner, has been an observer and chronicler of the emergence of a distinctly British approach to interior design and of the national and international phenomena that have shaped it.

'This makes it a useful reference book for those working in retail, hospitality and office design, and its emphasis on commercial projects offers architects valuable insight into the kinds of spaces where collaboration with interior designers is most critical.' – Leo Wood, Building Design Online

• Introduction: British interiors and design debates before 1920; 1. After the Paris Exposition: the first Art Deco interiors in London’s West End; 2. Un-domestic domesticity: homes and lifestyles of a shifting establishment; 3. Ocean liner style: grandeur and modernity afloat; 4. High street populism: jazz moderne and streamform for retail and entertainment; 5. Moving On; 6. Subversion and regression; 7. Edifices Crumble; 8. Anarchy in the UK; 9. White seemed right; 10. Richer mixes; 11. Recession and resuscitation; 12. Digitising and sustaining

Bruce Peter is the Professor of Design History in the Glasgow School of Art’s School of Design. He has researched and published extensively on modern architecture and design for transport, pleasure and hospitality. Drew Plunkett, a former academic and occasional practitioner, has been an observer and chronicler of the emergence of a distinctly British approach to interior design and of the national and international phenomena that have shaped it.

'This makes it a useful reference book for those working in retail, hospitality and office design, and its emphasis on commercial projects offers architects valuable insight into the kinds of spaces where collaboration with interior designers is most critical.' – Leo Wood, Building Design Online

• Introduction: British interiors and design debates before 1920; 1. After the Paris Exposition: the first Art Deco interiors in London’s West End; 2. Un-domestic domesticity: homes and lifestyles of a shifting establishment; 3. Ocean liner style: grandeur and modernity afloat; 4. High street populism: jazz moderne and streamform for retail and entertainment; 5. Moving On; 6. Subversion and regression; 7. Edifices Crumble; 8. Anarchy in the UK; 9. White seemed right; 10. Richer mixes; 11. Recession and resuscitation; 12. Digitising and sustaining