With an emphasis on the bones of a building, interior architecture bridges the gap between a home’s raw structure and its decorative elements, facilitating a balance between functionality and beauty. An intuitive layout, created by establishing an interior’s framework and flow, is the starting point from which everything else can seamlessly follow.
Our series explores many of the ideas first noted by Sir Terence Conran in his perennially useful The Essential House Book, published three decades ago. Then, he suggested that “a house reveals its character in a variety of ways – through materials and construction, design and layout, and, critically, what is generally referred to as ‘architectural detail’.”
Still now, these fixed elements, from walls and staircases to fireplaces and doorways, not only lend a home its form, but…
