Soot And Cinder

A brief history of INTAR (interior architecture):

Though the word "interior" was coined in the English language during the 15th century, the meaning was attached to spirituality, not buildings. In the 16th century Descartes came along and said "I think, therefore I am" - that our existences comes from our "interior".

Fast forward to the 18th Century and the idea of the individual/inner character emerge. People are defined from one another due to personality, which lends itself to a sense of freedom. People begin to relate themselves within their interiors. This = happiness. Also during this time people became concerned with hygiene and privacy (in the middle ages whatever happened did so in front of everyone because building did not have corridors. those showed up in the 17th Century).

Anyways, all of these things lead to the establishment of permanence in floor plans. Instead of the King saying "I'll have dinner in x room, bring everything and everyone there - rooms were engineered (plumbed/etc) to stay put.

In the 19th Century "interior" begins to mean the inside of a building or room. The great thinkers of this time focused on the idea that people define their personal selves with traces in their dwellings. During the industrial revolution the Bourgeois were living in apartments and model homes with permanent interiors. They couldn't put a stamp on their own personal space if they couldn't change the "bones". Enter upholstery, furniture and the like.

Luckily by the end of the 19th Century a change occurs from this sort of let'sdressthehouse idea towards the architectonics of a building holding it's own personality. Enter INTAR.