ABSTRACT
The professional journals often harked back to the past and lamented the architect’s loss of control over interior design work. In 1863, The Builder, forcefully argued that: every opportunity should be taken to demonstrate the importance of interior decoration as a subject for the attention of architects themselves. Crace, for instance, been employed, the beauties of the internal architecture would have been brought out by the decorative treatment, while the furniture would probably have been quite as good as that actually supplied. They made the distinction between the upholsterer and the decorator very clear. Mr. Owen Davis suggests that there is room for specialists, who shall be consulted by the architect in reference to decorative matters; and he assumes that this consulting artist must be an architect.
