Product Description: Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the center of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day...read more

Product Description: Lavish, opulent, and unabashedly dramatic, the Baroque style developed out of the Renaissance with the primary goal of inspiring awe. The most complex and sophisticated movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Baroque encompassed all forms of artistic expression, from painting to music to literature...read more

Product Description: Ornament surrounds us: on buildings, clothes and accessories, cars, and even computers. This easy-to-use reference, complete with rich illustrations, tells the story of European ornament from 1450 to the present; from the Renaissance to the consumer culture of today; from gargoyles to cell phones...read more

Product Description: Architecture is an art, expressing most clearly the values of its age, as in the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages or the corporate headquarters of today. Buildings work directly on our emotions, filling us with awe or serenity; they also help us to organize our crowded lives...read more

Product Description: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's chairs, William Morris's wallpapers and carpets, and many more examples show why, during the reign of Queen Victoria, Britain was called the "workshop of the world."

Product Description: "Georgian" has come to define a period characterized by elegance and refinement, as seen in the work of designers such as Thomas Chippendale, Robert Adam, Thomas Sheraton, and Josiah Wedgwood.

Product Description: Highlights include exquisitely carved and inlaid Jacobean furniture, including the famous bed of Ware; Mortlake tapestries and other luxurious textiles; and the architecture of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren.

Complemented by more than one thousand full-color illustrations, a history of British design and decorative arts encompasses more than four centuries of accomplishment, from the era of Henry VII through the reign of Queen Victoria, capturing a rich variety of furniture, textiles, silver, metalwork, porcelain, painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings.

Presents the first comprehensive English book about Carl Larsson, Sweden's best-loved artist, and his wife Karin, a textile designer, who revolutionized interior design and established a Swedish-inspired style that continues to attract a worldwide following. Original. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Brought up in Sweden by Scottish parents, trained in France, a visitor to China and India, Sir William Chambers (1726-96) was by far the most internationally minded British architect of his time. Settling in London in 1755, Chambers became a favourite of King George III and went on to hold the highest official architectural offices and to build public and private commissions throughout the British Isles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This catalogue contains over 800 drawings of Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) an important architect of the 18th century and a key figure in the neo-classical revival. The collection includes designs for interior decoration, furniture and silver...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This wide-ranging surveys the Western tradition of ornament from Renaissance interiors to gypsy caravans to the decoration of airliners. Placing ornamental design in a social context, it traces the various ways ornament has been used, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values that ornament has conveyed and represented through the past five centuries...read more

Product Description: This book is about one of the greatest and most influential architects and designers of the 19th century. Schinkel designed many of the great buildings of his native Germany; his architecture still dominates Berlin. Schinkel was also a painter and theatre designer; his work in these areas, as in his earliest architecture, were key expressions of German romanticism...read more