Author: GORE, Alan & Ann
Title: The History of English Interiors
Description: London, Phaidon, 1999. 28 cm, 192 pp. With illustrations in colour and b/w. Text in English. Reprint in paperback. New copy ¶ The History of English Interiors is the first complete history of English interior decoration. Using contemporary illustrations together with specially commissioned photographs, it details and discusses all styles and periods of English decoration. Beginning with the Normans, this book traces the development of the English interior through to such styles as Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Palladian. The great English architects and designers, from Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century to John Fowler in the twentieth, are all included and their influences explained.

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