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

*BarsandRestaurants

*Bedrooms

*Ceiling TypesandDetails

*Classrooms

*Closets

*Coat Rooms

*Conference CentersandRooms

*Construction Details/Interiors

*Department Stores

*Dining Rooms

*Elevators

*FabricsandFurniture

*FloorandWall Coverings

*Furniture Hardware

*Healthcare Facilities

*Home Offices

*Hotel RoomsandSuites

*Human Factors

*Indoor Recreation

*Institutional Interiors

*Interior Architecture

*Kitchens

*Libraries

*Lighting

*Marble Finishes

*Mathematical TablesandFormulas

*Motels

*Nurseries

*OfficesandOffice Planning

*Partition Types

*Planning Standards

*Primary Care Centers

*Programming Standards

*Ramps

*Reference Standards

*Residential Design

*Restaurants

*Retail Spaces

*Revolving Doors

*Shops

*SignageandGraphics

*Space Planning

*StairsandRamps

*Stores

*Theaters

*Universal Design

*Wheelchair Lifts

*Window Treatments

*Wood Veneer Finishes

Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the fields 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, youll 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.

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.

Chapter 1: Planning and Design of Interior Spaces.

Chapter 2: Construction Details and Finishes.

Chapter 3: Architectural Woodwork.

Chapter 4: Specialties.

Chapter 5: Accessible Design/ADA.

Chapter 6: General Reference Data.