From Arts & Crafts and Art Deco to Mid-Century Modern and the architecture of the 1970s. See where a style came from, how to recognise it and which details belong with it.
ARCHITECTURE · INTERIORS · HERITAGE
Curious about history.
Serious about style.
Explore the history behind architecture and interiors, understand the details that define a style, and make more confident choices for restoration, renovation and design.
A home is never just a look. It is part of a longer story.
Interious connects architectural history with the decisions people make today — from a door handle or colour palette to the way a whole room is restored. Explore styles, discover the details that define them, and understand why they belong.
Materials, profiles, patterns, hardware and finishes — the small choices that make a style recognisable.
Stories about the origins of design movements, the evolution of homes and the decisions that preserve character without turning a house into a museum.
FEATURED STYLE · ART DECO
Art Deco turned modernity into ornament: stepped forms, rich materials, polished metals and confident geometry. Interious follows the movement from its European origins to the way it was transformed in America — and shows how to recognise its language in a home today.
Explore: origins · interiors · materials · hardware · Europe vs America
CONNECTED HISTORIES
Architectural styles rarely stop at borders. Arts & Crafts became American Craftsman; European Art Deco evolved into a distinctly American language; Tudor forms returned centuries later as Tudor Revival. Interious traces these relationships so a style becomes a story, not a label.
Europe
Arts & Crafts, Jugendstil, Art Deco, modernism — movements shaped by local craft, new industry and changing ideas about how people should live.
America
Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Art Deco and Streamline Moderne translated European ideas into new materials, climates, scales and ways of living.
New stories connect architecture, interiors, design and detail.
The Journal follows how styles travel, how buildings change, and how historical evidence can guide better choices today.
Style Histories
Arts & Crafts: From Britain to American Craftsman
How British Arts & Crafts ideals around craft, material and honest construction evolved into the distinctly American Craftsman language.
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Style Histories
Art Deco: European Origins and American Evolution
From the 1925 Paris exposition and Ruhlmann’s crafted luxury to skyscrapers and Streamline Moderne: how Art Deco changed across the Atlantic.
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House Guides
How to Identify the Architectural Style of Your Home
A practical method for identifying your home’s architectural style through period, form, openings, materials, details and later alterations.
Read article →Understand your home. Then make choices that belong.
Interious is building a practical knowledge base for people who care about the history, character and future of their homes. Start with the stories and styles. Later, the same knowledge will help connect homes with materials, details and products that genuinely fit.