Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition [Hardcover]

Julius Panero (Author), Martin Zelnik (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 13, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0071346163 | ISBN-13: 978-0071346160 | Edition: 2nd

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.

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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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1689 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2nd edition (June 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071346163
• ISBN-13: 978-0071346160
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 2.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Interior Design > Professional Reference

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planners, January 22, 2002

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Dan E. Stoddard (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Resource..., May 23, 2006

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Knoel C. Honn "Lazarus Long" (Tulsa, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Can't Not Have This, July 2, 2008

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This review is from: Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

This is a required book for anyone in Interior Design for a good reason: it has about everything, including the (many kinds) of kitchen sink. What I really can't stand about using it is the seemingly arbitrary indexing, scattered locations for information and nearly impossible to decipher graphics on some pages. I do not agree that it has much useful information on furniture styles: you'd be better off to shell out for Aronson's "Encyclopedia of Furniture" or Miller's "Furniture" and get right to what you need. The standard dimensions are useful, though, especially for space planning purposes. Don't be surprised if there is information missing in some cases, or it is outright incorrect. Be sure to cross-reference and here's another tip: make a cheat sheet for yourself for the pages you use most, tape it to the inside cover and go from there. The Index is a goose-chase. Why three stars? Because I think they can do better. It is time for a rehaul of the Silver Monster.