ABSTRACT
The Architectural Review devoted considerable space to interior design in the first few years of the 1980s as architects and designers explored the dialects of Postmodernism from behind the facades of existing buildings. There was an interior design market to be tapped that could not be contained easily within the Review’s philosophy, so the magazine took up a suggestion from Lance Knobel, one of its regular writers, to produce a quarterly supplement on interior design. Designers’ Journal was extremely important through the 1980s and into the early 1990s until it folded in the aftermath of the financial recession. It replaced the Architectural Review as the interior designer’s journal of choice and in it may be traced the development of interior practice. Knobel confessed that, during his time as editor, he had found ‘design, particularly interior design’ to have been ‘an inspiring, enjoyable and, at times, amusing world to observe and write about’.
