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- Title
Ruling on the Profession: Interior Design in the Courts.
- Authors
Cunningham, Erin
- Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper uses the legal story of an interior design practitioner, Florence Karasik, as a basis for a broader discussion of the professionalization of interior design. The Karasik case will demonstrate three things: (1) that law, which is largely neglected in histories of professionalism, is an important barometer for shifting opinions about what it means to be a profession; (2) that everyday people, like Florence Karasik, had their own, popular conceptions of interior design as a profession; and (3) that popular and legal conceptions of the professionalization of interior design did not always align. The Karasik case, which disclosed a dynamic legal and popular conversation about what it meant to be a professional interior designer, highlights the increasingly decisive role the state would play in the second half of the twentieth century in determining the professional status of interior design.
- Subjects
INTERIOR decoration; KARASIK, Florence; PROFESSIONALIZATION; INTERIOR decoration -- History; INTERIOR decorators; LAW
- Publication
Journal of Interior Design, 2015, Vol 40, Issue 2, p25
- ISSN
1071-7641
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/joid.12041