Interior Design Management: A Handbook for Owners and Managers [Paperback]

Christine M. Piotrowski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1992

Most interior designers who own - or plan to own - their own firms are at a disadvantage because they lack formal business training. This text aims to provide them with essential information on accounting, financial analysis, revenue operation, contracts, personnel issues and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471284319
• ISBN-13: 978-0471284314
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,558,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christine Piotrowski, ASID, IIDA, is the owner of Christine M. Piotrowski and Associates in Phoenix, Arizona, which provides consulting to interior designers on planning and operational matters. She is a former professor of interior design at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and past president of the Arizona North chapter of ASID. She has more than twenty years of commercial and residential design experience and is the author of several books on interior design, including the bestselling text, Professional Practice for Interior Designers, now in its third edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Drama and Negativity, January 9, 2007

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Stella Rose "Stella" (Valley Village, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interior Design Management: A Handbook for Owners and Managers (Paperback)

I was hoping for a really good guide to the business side of Interior Design from an expert. This book was reccomended to me by another professional in the business as the "bible" of the business. I was hoping for insights for a well-run, prosperous, effecient and positive business. I was sorely disappointed. This book is negative, preachy, outdated, and angry. Written in a most uninspired manner and goes so far as to say things like, if you want your own business you better be prepared to give up bridge, tennis, dinner with your family... blah, blah, blah, or quite frankly your contract is to protect you, NOT your client. Hmmm, really, last I checked it is supposed to do both. Maybe it just does not represent the spirit in which I choose to do business. I was hoping for advise from someone who is better at this than I am, someone who may have streamlined the process and knows good time management. All the drama and negativity pulls your energy from whatever good information is present. I can see the wagging index finger of the writer as I read, no thank you.
Stella

10 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best source of information I have come across!, July 4, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Interior Design Management: A Handbook for Owners and Managers (Hardcover)

Just by thumbing through this book at the store the other day I could tell it was the book for me! I highly recommend this publication to anyone who needs to learn the in's-n-out's of this business. I learned so much already...I can't wait to finish it