Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr.
Authors of The Decoration of Houses, who argued that a room is a problem in proportion before it is a problem in decoration.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), before she was known as a novelist, was a serious critic of architecture and interiors; Ogden Codman Jr. (1863–1951) was the architect with whom she wrote The Decoration of Houses (1897). The book established the principle the wiki takes as foundational to Domain II — Interiors.
What the Wiki Takes From Them
Their argument is that the principles of good architecture govern interiors no less than façades — that a room is a problem in Proportion before it is a problem in decoration, and that ornament is the reward for getting the structure right, not a remedy for getting it wrong. It is the interior expression of Restraint: the room that withholds, and lets its underlying line speak before it is filled.