Product Description

The "Silver Bible" -- thoroughly revised, updated and redesigned

Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field's beloved "Silver Bible" for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial interiors. But now, Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, Second Edition goes even further to truly make the classic interior design reference the standard in its field.

From standard furniture dimensions to architectural woodwork details, you'll find a vast array of time-saving data and details. Editors Joseph DeChiara, Julius Panero, and Martin Zelnik have brought together contributions from well-known architectural and interior design firms to give you details derived from actual designs and working drawings, showing various solutions for typical design problems encountered in interior architecture.

You get a wide range of typical layouts and residential spaces, offices, conference rooms, and reception areas, in addition to details of bars, restaurants, and public toilets. This exciting new edition includes new international examples and metrification – and provides you with full coverage of healthcare spaces, educational spaces; home offices; videoconferencing spaces; green design; project forms and schedules. Two outstanding sections cover historic styles and woodworking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87803 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1689 pages

Review
"... a comprehensive handbook of graphic standards. Professionals in interior design will find it useful, although they will probably buy personal copies. Architecture libraries will want the work, and public libraries serving home remodelers may also feel it a necessary purchase. Librarians planning a new building will also find it very helpful. -- Booklist, January 1992

"A comprehensive reference of all that was left out of the 8th Edition well-known "Ramsey-Sleeper" Graphics Standards, a book that serves as a standard reference of many architectural offices." -- New York Society of Architects Bulletin, 3/92

"Interior designers now have an authoritative handbook specifically geared to the planning and design of interior spaces." -- American Reference Book Annual, 1992

"The TIME-SAVER STANDARDS FOR INTERIOR DESIGN AND SPACE PLANNING is a comprehensive reference of all that was left out of the well known 'Ramsey-Sleeper' Graphics Standards that serves as the standard reference of many architectural offices... thorough and informative, providing what every office needs. It is clearly a superior and more organized interior design 'reference' book than most others on the market. A must for any office involved in interior design and space planning" -- New York Society of Architects Newsletter, January 1992

"The editors of this excellent compendium note in the Foreword that it is, 'a resource of incredible range and detail,' and indeed it is treasure trove of practical information on both residential and commercial interiors, one that thoroughly examines the planning data, technical details, and decorative elements eeded to design and plan interior spaces... gives hundreds of useful and time-saving details for furniture and interior elements... highly recommended for all libraries, and for professionals working in vaious aspects of architecture and design." -- Academic Library Book Review, 12/92

From the Back Cover
Interior architectural details, planning standards, and reference data, for use by architects, interior designers, space planners, facility managers, builders, and design students.

Long recognized as one of the most comprehensive architectural and interior design reference resources and known as the silver bible, this new edition of Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning is an excellent source of easily accessible design criteria, planning standards, and technical guidelines. The vast array of design information, all contained in a single volume, facilitates and expedites the completion of programming, preliminary planning, design development, and working drawing services.

This updated and revised edition of Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning serves as a primary source of information for all design professionals. Organized in an easily accessible format, the book contains key criteria useful to every design professional and builder involved in the planning of a large variety of interior projects.

It includes, among other changes, entirely new sections dealing with healthcare spaces, hospitality spaces, banking spaces, conference centers, and accessible design, featuring the latest ADA design requirements.

Moreover, many of the existing sections of the book have been significantly expanded to include such new material as design and planning criteria for video-conference spaces, as well as a host of additional lighting design details, workstation configurations, and reference standards.

*Accessible Design
*ADA
*Architectural Woodwork
*Audio-Visual Systems
*Auditoriums
*Banking Spaces
*Bars & Restaurants
*Bedrooms
*Ceiling Types & Details
*Classrooms
*Closets
*Coat Rooms
*Conference Centers & Rooms
*Construction Details/Interiors
*Department Stores
*Dining Rooms
*Elevators
*Fabrics & Furniture
*Floor & Wall Coverings
*Furniture Hardware
*Healthcare Facilities
*Home Offices
*Hotel Rooms & Suites
*Human Factors
*Indoor Recreation
*Institutional Interiors
*Interior Architecture
*Kitchens
*Libraries
*Lighting
*Marble Finishes
*Mathematical Tables & Formulas
*Motels
*Nurseries
*Offices & Office Planning
*Partition Types
*Planning Standards
*Primary Care Centers
*Programming Standards
*Ramps
*Reference Standards
*Residential Design
*Restaurants
*Retail Spaces
*Revolving Doors
*Shops
*Signage & Graphics
*Space Planning
*Stairs & Ramps
*Stores
*Theaters
*Universal Design
*Wheelchair Lifts
*Window Treatments
*Wood Veneer Finishes

About the Author
Joseph DeChiara (New York, NY) is a practicing architect and planner.

Julius Panero (New York, NY) is an architect and interior designer and partner in the firm Panero Zelnik Associates.

Martin Zelnik (New York, NY) is an architect and interior designer and partner in the firm Panero Zelnik Associates.

Customer Reviews

Not great but the only thing like it.
This is a compilation of materials from other sources, most of which are readily available to everyone but it's very convenient to have all the information in one place. However, some of the information is inaccurate, some of the illustrations are out of date, and many are poor copies of photocopies that aren't legible. I find this inexcusable in a book intended for designers and one that is $100+. Unfortunately, it is the only book of its kind. I recommend double checking any information that you take from it. Reznikoff is the only comparable book and that is even more out of date. At least Reznikoff was well produced though.

Time Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planners
This is a a "must have" for anyone in the interior design industry. The best book since Architectural Graphic Standards for the Interior Design Profession. Very Specific and all inclusive, excellent details for just about every application.

Required purchase for my Interior Design Students to use through out their educational and professional careers.

An Excellent Resource...
As an Interior Design student at OSU this was an invaluable resource to have. No student or designer should be without it in their library.