ABSTRACT
Around the middle of the nineteenth century in England, a particular conjunction occurred between the emerging architectural technique of asymmetrical planning, and the strengthening domestic desire for comfort. Several treatises on domestic architecture positioned the plan as the centrepiece of domestic design and construction. Yet a measurement for the efficacy of the planning techniques the treatises codified could only be found through the imagination of a comfortable interior from the organizational conditions that the plan inscribed. Interiors needed to be imagined by the architect and client alike, as if both were the ‘future inhabitants’ of the plan.
