The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior is one of several analytical studies of the history of nineteenth-century interior design that have appeared in the past decade. These include but are not limited to Judith W. Neiswander, The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home, 1870–1914 (2000), Charles Rice, The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (2007), and Charlotte Gere, Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement (2010), to name only a few. Published in 2009 and beautifully produced by Thames and Hudson, The Poetic Home is a summation of, and elaboration on, the writings on nineteenth-century interior design by Stefan Muthesius, an architectural historian well known for his work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and German architecture.