CSDI - The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, based at the Royal College of Art in London, brings together three institutions: the Royal College of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London. Launched in September 2001, its goal is to develop new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation. It pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of buildings, from tenements to palaces; the objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they thought about them.

Forthcoming publications

The Imagined Interior: Representations of the Domestic Interior from the Renaissance to the Present, ed. Jeremy Aynsley and Charlotte Grant (V&A Publications, 2006)
The accompanying book to the Centre's on-line database, The Imagined Interior will form the definitive study of changing representations of the domestic interior in North America and Europe from 1400 to the present. It represents the work of Centre staff and many of the scholars associated with its programme of conferences and symposia.

At Home in Renaissance Italy, eds. Marta Ajmar, Flora Dennis, (V&A Publications, 2006)
The volume to accompany the major V&A exhibition in 2006

Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and America in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. John Styles and Amanda Vickery
A collection of essays derived from the Centre's conference held at the Huntington Library in May 2004

Publishing the Modern Home, 1880-1950, a special issue of the Journal of Design History (Oxford University Press), ed. by Jeremy Aynsley and Francesca Berry (fothcoming June, 2005)
A collection of seven articles selected from the Centre's conference 'The Modern Magazine and the Design of the Domestic Interior, 1880-1950', held at the V&A in February 2003