The History Of English Interiors

This 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.

Starting with the Normans the book demonstrates how each aspect of a room developed - doors, windows, fireplaces, ceilings, floors, walls, furniture - and how the relationship between these various elements became styles which we now know through terms such 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, their influences and influence explained.

England's most remarkable interiors - many of which have never been published before - are all illustrated. With a list of houses open to the public, chronological chart and glossary, this book is invaluable, as a reference for professionals and experts, and as a source of inspiration and instruction for all.