Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning

By Joseph De Chiara and Julius Panero; Martin Zelnik; Joseph De Chiara

Book Overview

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The "Silver Bible" -- thoroughly revised, updated and redesigned

Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field's beloved "Silver Bible" for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial interiors. But now, Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, Second Edition goes even further to truly make the classic interior design reference the standard in its field.

From standard furniture dimensions to architectural woodwork details, you'll find a vast array of time-saving data and details. Editors Joseph DeChiara, Julius Panero, and Martin Zelnik have brought together contributions from well-known architectural and interior design firms to give you details derived from actual designs and working drawings, showing various solutions for typical design problems encountered in interior architecture.

You get a wide range of typical layouts and residential spaces, offices, conference rooms, and reception areas, in addition to details of bars, restaurants, and public toilets. This exciting new edition includes new international examples and metrification - and provides you with full coverage of healthcare spaces, educational spaces; home offices; videoconferencing spaces; green design; project forms and schedules. Two outstanding sections cover historic styles and woodworking.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071346163
• ISBN13: 9780071346160
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 1728 Pages
• Weight: 8.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.7" x 8.7" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Designer's Bible

Besides just being large and heavy, this book is filled with great information. For a beginner, it can be overwhelming, but it is definitely a book every designer should have on their bookshelf. It provides guidelines, dimensions, and tons of illustrations for creating the proper space. The book acknowledges designing for handicap, retail, hospitality and residential spaces. It reviews the standard sizes for furniture pieces, ceiling heights etc...Once you find what your looking for (through all of those pages), you definitely get good direction from the information provided on it.

Great tool for all Interior Designers!

I am a last semester interior design student and just bought this book-I wish I had had it from the start! The book has nice sections on historical periods and furniture dimensions, residential, office, hospitality, retail, health care, banking and public restroom spaces, with lots and lots of plans, elevations and sections for each category. There is also a general reference section at the back of the book with lots of tables (space planning, wall covering or yardage amounts, as well as electrical and math tables). As well there is a nice colored section of wood and marble samples-a real time saver indeed!

Tiem Saver Standards - MUST HAVE!

This book is it. For an Interior Design student it is the only book I go back to again and again. It really helps with those beginning questions like... "how big is a standard king bed?" "How high should kitchen countertops be for wheelchair access?" Completely worth the price tag!

An Excellent Resource...

As an Interior Design student at OSU this was an invaluable resource to have. No student or designer should be without it in their library.

Time Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planners

This is a a "must have" for anyone in the interior design industry. The best book since Architectural Graphic Standards for the Interior Design Profession. Very Specific and all inclusive, excellent details for just about every application. Required purchase for my Interior Design Students to use through out their educational and professional careers.