What Do Interior Designers Do?

1) Residential interior designers support their clients in realizing their dreams and creating a home for their family and friends. We research, design, document, and specify the interior architectural finishes, millwork, plumbing, lighting, cabinetry, and interior design details and work closely with the project team (client, architect, and contractor) to implement- them. Second, we bring together the complete vision for the project through the design, research , and implementation of the interior furnishings from all the furniture to the artwork and accessories. 

2) Create environments that support the human condition in 'whatever activities it chooses, including Living, sleeping, working, playing, eating, shopping, healing, or praying. These environments must be safe., accessible, sustainable and in many  cases, beautiful_ But, most importantly they must be functional for the persons inhabiting them. We influence life patterns by creasing healthy and Safe environments.

3) Interior designers solve problems. Our clients come to us with questions, wants, and needs and through design development we answer those questions and provide solutions for those wants and needs all while protecting the health, welfare, and safety of the public through our knowledge of local and national building codes

4) interior designers plan and design interior spaces.. Interior designers understand how people move through, live and work in, and experience interior space_ We consider the specific experiences and functions the space or project must support from the point of view of the user. Our unique understanding of psychological and human factors as well as formal design principles, materials, codes and regulations, and the means and methods of construction inform our diagnosis of user needs and the development of design concepts

5) They use their creative skills and expertise to create space that improve people's environments -and make life better. More pragmatically, interior designers gather and analyze information, produce drawings, manage consultant team and oversee constructions projects.

6) Interior designers create interior environments that arc functional, aesthetically pleasing, and enhance the quality of life and culture of the users of the space_ In doing so, they have an obligation to protect the health. safety, and welfare of the public.

The seventeenth century of interior style

The elegance and comfort of French interiors, primarily intended for the aristocracy, were universally admired and influenced other European countries such as Sweden. In Holland, a more modest version of French style developed that was acceptable to the emergent middle-classes, and Dutch imported goods were very mach in demand.

When the Stuarts were restored to the throne of England towards the end of the seventeenth century, Charles Ti and his courtiers favoured the continental baroque style, and the later rule of William and Mary of Orange resulted in further continental influence on English styles. Princesses of the House of Orange spread their enthusiasm for decorative derails such as mirrors, massed porcelain and lacquerwork through their royal marriages.

William and Mary commissioned the highly talented Daniel March, who as a result of religious persecution had fled the French court, where he had been working, to design the interiors of parts of Hampton. Court Palace.There, Marot successfully combined the skills of designer and decorator, as Le Brun had done, and his cohesive interiors can still be seen today. Huguenot refugees played an important part in English interior design development since many of them were highly skilled craftsmen. Inigo Jones, who was widely regarded as the founder of English classical architecture, also treated the interiors of his buildings as part of the whole.

The Thirty Years  War took a considerable toll on Spain and Germany and little architectural development rook place in these countries during that time. Once both economies had recovered sufficiently for building to _take place, tastes had changed considerably. Early versions of German baroque showed Italian influence, but gradually an indigenous rich and complex style emerged in south Germany and Austria. Highly ornate surface decoration was a feature of seventeenth-century Spanish architecture as in the facade of Santiago de Compostela or the Dos Aguas Palace at Valencia, but the more restrained Royal Palace in Madrid and the Royal Palace of La Granja by Filippo Juvarra were influenced by the more severe French baroque style